American skies are safe once more after the U.S. Government stopped sorties of soaring mercenaries. Paid pilots, cross-dressing interspecies impersonators all, have been barred from the airways by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The pilots from the so-called Occupy Birdland Operation Migration Air Force have been grounded and forced to stop transporting helpless Grus Americana youngsters across state lines for breeding purposes. Nine of the sexual captives are being held incommunicado at Alabama’s Chassahowitzka Federal Detention Facility.
The troubling trafficking operation has been halted on a technicality. The sophisticated stealth Cosmos Phase II ultralight aircraft which lead each airborne convoy are classified as sport planes and cannot be flown by paid personnel, but these pilots were paid. The traffickers claim they were compensated for putting on strange costumes and making suggestive honking noises, not flying. Kinky.
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January 7, 2012 at 10:22 pm
UPDATE:
“Legal Problem Grounds a Bird Migration,” Matthew L. Wald, New York Times
“Crane Migration Can Resume, F.A.A. Says,” Matthew L. Wald, New York Times