Flying Squirrel Murdered In Hawaii

I feel sorry for the squirrel in this story:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/15/stowaway.squirrel.ap/index.html

The poor little guy was probably just trying to get away from the winter weather when he hopped a flight from NY to Tokyo. After a brief stay in the Orient, he was on his way to Dallas (probably to visit some relatives) when the flight crew discovered him in the wiring ducts. They diverted to Hawaii where he was trapped and killed.

Isn't it ironic that he made it to paradise only to be exterminated by overly-cautious bureaucrats. I mean, even for a squirrel, Hawaii would be a pretty cool place to land; chillin' on the beach and growing fat on Macadamia nuts.


Come to think of it, maybe it was those fabulous airline peanuts that attracted him to take to the skies in the first place. It makes you wonder. Do you suppose they checked the rest of the plane for a dimwitted moose named Bullwinkle?