OMG!! Could you imagine your dog brining this in??

[MeTaL]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNew...075697-ap.html

EW YORK (AP) - The body of an apparent stowaway was ripped in half during flight Tuesday and his leg crashed into a suburban neighbourhood, where a homeowner found the severed limb in the middle of her lawn, authorities said.

Pam Hearne heard "a loud crash" and later was stunned to see a foot clad in an Adidas sneaker and a sock in her yard, said officer Thomas Blanchard. The leg, with hip and spine attached, dented the shingled roof of her garage before bouncing into the lawn.

Police suspect the remains are from a stowaway who may have been crushed as the South African Airways jet lowered its landing gear on its approach to Kennedy Airport.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said the pilot of flight 203 would have probably started lowering the plane's landing gear in the sky over the home in Floral Park, a few kilometres from the airport.

Peters said a Customs agent that met the flight at the airport found another leg hanging from the wheel well.

The airline said in a statement that the flight landed with "no impact" on the passengers and crew and it was working closely with authorities to investigate how someone may have stowed away.

The flight originated in Johannesburg, and made one stop in Senegal. Authorities had not identified the remains, which were hauled away from Hearne's yard in a plastic bag.

Hearne, a special education teacher, said that when she first saw the leg in the grass, "it didn't look real."

"But I am very glad that I live where I do," she said, "so I don't have to run for my life like this man probably was doing."

There have been cases of stowaways being crushed by the mechanism in aircraft wheel wells and perishing from the extreme cold at high altitude.

[Smiley]

More likely he was crushed when the wheel originally restracted after takeoff. He would have frozen at high altitudes too, so he had no chance.

[Cheese]

psh, shows what you know, i do this all the time man. free trip to hawaii here i come!

[ilikemittens]

that's... really sad. and gross. and i don't want to think about it anymore.

[NiRvAnA]

My dogs would prop just run away from it, they think there cats sometimes

[-double tap]

Just got through reading that..shame...

[ARX|Frag4U]

That's messed up. No frequent flyer miles for him.

[{OF}Blong]

no more miles at all you mean.

[{OF}verrecke]

The leg, with hip and spine attached

Ugh. Part of me shudders, but the less squeamish part of me immediately thought of Peter Jackson's movie "Bad Taste."

[{OF}Malicious Assault]

Lucky it didnt hit the house or someone in the yard, now there is a headline for you