Patriots, we originally listed the following news brief about a stow-a-way skwerl as a "Skwerls in the News" link. However, many of you wrote expressing concern over the nutzy's motives.

For example, Patriot Rob wondered if the is a skwerlien plot to invade Japan. Others suggested that the incident was some sort of skwerl-o-terrorist plot, but they weren't sure what...

SKITTERING SQUIRREL FORCES PLANE TO LAND

(02-14) 19:57 PST HONOLULU, (AP)

An American Airlines flight made an unscheduled landing in Honolulu after pilots heard something skittering about in the wire-laden space over the cockpit. The airline blamed the emergency landing of the Tokyo-Dallas flight with 202 passengers on a stowaway squirrel.

"You do not want a varmint up in the wiring areas and what-have-you on an airplane. You don't want anything up there," said John Hotard, spokesman for the Ft. Worth, Texas-based airline. He said pilots feared the animal would chewed through wiring or cause other problems.

"So, as a precaution, we diverted," Hotard said.

Once on the ground late Friday, the Boeing 777's human passengers were put up in hotel rooms and later rebooked on other flights.

Officers with the state and federal agriculture and wildlife officials boarded the plane, set traps, and captured the eastern gray squirrel. The species is native to parts of North America, and has been introduced to other areas, including South Africa, England and Italy.

It isn't known where or how the squirrel boarded the plan, said Janelle Saneishi, spokeswoman for the state Agriculture Department.

Hotard said the plane had flown to Tokyo directly from New York before the Dallas flight.

Honolulu, however, proved to be the squirrel's final destination. Fearing it may have been carrying rabies, authorities had the rodent killed, Saneishi said.

Patriots, after additional research into this horrific matter, we agree that this is not a random incident.

One need only consider that there are no squirrels in Hawaii to guess what's going on here...

The Squirrel Enforcement Army (SEA) placed an operative on the plane knowing it would pass over Hawaii. Then, at the most opportune moment, the slavering skwerlball threatened to chew through every wire in the cabin unless the pilot landed in Honolulu. From there, the vicious nutzy planned to escape into the country side where he would rendezvous with pathetic skwerlhuggers and call in a full scale invasion of skwerls from the mainland...

Fortunately for the great state of Hawaii, and in a scene reminiscent of the 1999 KLM airlines incident, quick thinking Patriots captured the bushytail beast and dispatched it without further ado (click skwerl below for comment)...



But is this the end of the threat? Or was the grey menace just the first attempt, a testing of the waters perhaps, and the SEA will try again and again until... well, you get the picture.

READER COMMENTS

Frankly, I'm surprised that you guys didn't do a better job on this. You probably have the right conclusion, but HOW did that skwerl get on the plane in the first place!!!!??? I know how and I have the proof!!!

This thing is just all part of a bigger plot between the airlines and the skwerls to help them take over the world (the skwerls). What do the airlines get out of it? They get to cut costs by replacing human flight attendants with skwerls who will work for peanuts...

OK bad joke, but it's true and here's the proof. I snapped this photo just a few weeks ago at the airport in New York:



I hope this information helps!

~Patriot Nessa