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[rudypilot]

help.

i just got my commercial and was out logging some time i wanted to fly through a class b airspace. i called approach and they said to squak altitude, so i did. i was at 7500 ft so i put 7500 in the transponder because that was my altitude. they gave me a phone number, i got nothing but abuse when i called. i have to see the faa now.

 

[rudypilot]

i was just doing what they said

 

[ms6073]

You know, I was just thinking this mornig how good the barbeque is at Big Daddy's in Katy, Texas and County Line on FM 1960 at Hwy 290 in Houston, Texas!

 

[rvsm410]

help.

i just got my commercial and was out logging some time i wanted to fly through a class b airspace. i called approach and they said to squak altitude, so i did. i was at 7500 ft so i put 7500 in the transponder because that was my altitude. they gave me a phone number, i got nothing but abuse when i called. i have to see the faa now.

This is a joke right?

Ya think maybe just depressing the Ident button would have worked? so they could find you in the airspace for a further clearance through the B airspace? Na!!
Come on, you have a commercial and you did not know what ATC wanted?

Your lucky they only chewed you out.....

 

[flyifrvfr]

Thats funny, a few years ago I had trouble with ATC and the FAA. I was flying into BWI and I was approaching from the north which would put me near Martin State Airport. The controller said im cleared into bravo but stay clear of delta. I replied that I would as those delta pilots are known to do Crazy Ivans.

 

[chawbein]

You know, I was just thinking this mornig how good the barbeque is at Big Daddy's in Katy, Texas and County Line on FM 1960 at Hwy 290 in Houston, Texas!

Big Daddy's is pretty doggone good. I've never had County Line, should I check it out?

 

[FN FAL]

Sounds like the fit is about to hit the shan....

See monkey doo
Truckload of spilled zoo waste makes for stinky cleanup
By MEG JONES
[email protected]
Posted: May 4, 2004
The dispatcher's call was nondescript - some sort of spill in the busy Zoo Interchange - so it wasn't until firefighters showed up that they found out the malodorous mess was more than just a fuel leak.

Monkey Business


Photo/File
The moat from Monkey Island at the Milwaukee County Zoo is drained and cleaned twice a year of algae and waste. As the waste was being transported for disposal Tuesday, the truck spilled its contents across U.S. 45. The highway was closed down for three hours.


Quotable

This is a first for monkey poop, and I'm laying odds it's the last.

- Milwaukee Fire Capt. Ralph Gallow

You look at this stuff - it's unbelievable. We probably have a half-mile stretch, three lanes across of monkey (excrement). I mean, what do you do with all of it?

- Milwaukee Fire Capt. Ralph Gallow


Picture the entire contents of the Milwaukee County Zoo's Monkey Island moat - 2,000 gallons of water mixed with monkey feces, algae, goose dung and pungent bits of food discarded by the island's finicky inhabitants - dumped across three lanes of U.S. 45.

What to do?

For the firefighters of the nearest station, Engine 25 on S. 84th St., they probably wished Tuesday had been their day off.

"This is a first for monkey poop, and I'm laying odds it's the last," said Fire Capt. Ralph Gallow, who has responded to many highway messes in his 20 years as a firefighter.

The simian sludge poured out of a county parks vacuum truck when four hydraulic latches gave way and a door opened, gurgling the dark brown/black mix onto the expressway around 10:45 a.m.

The mess snarled traffic, prompted motorists to plug their noses and closed down the entire southbound section of U.S. 45 and the eastbound I-94 ramp to southbound I-894/U.S. 45 for three hours. All lanes reopened by 2:30 p.m.

When Gallow and his crew pulled up to the scene a Milwaukee County sheriff's deputy told them they were stepping in it. Literally.

"You look at this stuff - it's unbelievable. We probably have a half-mile stretch, three lanes across of monkey (excrement)," Gallow said. "I mean, what do you do with all of it?"

A street sweeper was used to suck up as much primate goo as possible before firefighters hosed down the remainder into two drains. Then a bleach solution was sprayed across the highway to neutralize the smell and residual fecal matter.

As for the odor? "Well, we stayed upwind," said Tom Ulatowski, a heavy equipment operator for Engine 25. "It didn't smell too good when you were driving through it."

However, it wasn't the worst the firefighters had whiffed.

"It was not putrid. It wasn't like, 'Oh my God, dead-body-for-a-week-and-a-half in 90-degree heat,' " Gallow said. "It wasn't anything that nasty."

Twice a year, the moat around Monkey Island is drained, scrubbed with bleach and filled with fresh water while the 23 Japanese macaques, or snow monkeys, hang out in their inside holding quarters. The monkeys are penned up during the two-day process; otherwise, they could escape by scampering across the dry moat, said Milwaukee Zoo public relations coordinator Jennifer Diliberti.

The moat contents are aired out, then sucked into the vacuum truck and taken to a hazardous waste dump site in Franklin, said Sue Black, county parks director. That's where the truck was heading Tuesday when it dumped the macaque caca.

By the time it's drained, the moat, which the monkeys, ducks, geese and peacocks often use as a commode, can get quite rank. The macaques, which produce about as much daily waste as a 9-month-old human, eat monkey chow, apples, oranges, lettuce and other vegetables.

"It's similar to having a sewage backup in your basement," Diliberti said.

No other vehicles were involved in the mishap, and there were no injuries, said Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Kim Brooks.

As for the firefighters, who used 12 gallons of industrial bleach and as much as 7,500 gallons of water to clean up the mess, the call provided a lot of unprintable puns and quips. They carefully cleaned their water hoses - which had been dragged through the muck - washed the monkey feces off their boots and went back to their firehouse in time for a lunch of pork chops, salad and biscuits.



From the May 5, 2004 editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 

[wildbill]

That post just has to be a joke. Just something to trip our triggers first thing in the morning. I would ask for a refund from your flight school and think about calling a truck driving school today.

 

[Oakum_Boy]

SQUAWK ATLTITUDE = TURN ON MODE C

270 hr pilot may not know what that means. BTW, was mode C on? Was the xpndr on?

 

[LAZYB]

Check me on this. Grillin is not barbecue? ...and smoking is something else.