Strange News Round-up – November 5th, 2015

Sheep Bring Down Plane

No, the sheep weren’t fired at a plane. Nor were they Monty Python’s fearsome flying sheep. No, these sheep brought down a plane by farting! The smelly buggers!

A Singapore Airlines flight from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia had a cargo of 2,000 sheep when it had to make an emergency landing because its smoke detectors went off. Further investigation revealed no smoke. Instead the sensors had been set off by sheep manure and the woolly monsters’ “exhaust gases”. So be warned. Never fly with a sheep.

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