Danish F-16 jet fighters kill santa's famous reindeer, Rudolf...REALLY!!

[kallistii]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/30/denmark.reindeer.ap/index.html

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- The Danish Air Force said it has paid about $5,000 in compensation to a part-time Santa Claus whose reindeer died of heart failure when two fighter jets roared over his farm.

The animal, named Rudolf, was grazing at the farm of Olavi Nikkanoff in central Denmark when the screaming F-16 jets passed overhead at low altitude in February.

The reindeer collapsed and died, leaving Nikkanoff with the prospect of only one animal pulling his sleigh next Christmas.

He complained to the Air Force, which agreed to compensate him for the cost of the reindeer and veterinary expenses.

"We got a letter from Santa complaining about his reindeer's death and looked into it seriously," Air Force spokesman Capt. Morten Jensen said Thursday.

The Air Force checked flight data and veterinary reports and concluded the planes had caused the animal's death.

Nikkanoff said he would use the money to buy a new reindeer before Christmas.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press

Comments

[juniorcrone.livejournal.com]

So the reindeer died of a heart attack at the sight of the jets?
WTF?

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

The sound of the jets scared reindeer, and it had a heart attack, and died.

No, actually, it was a radar guided Sidewinder missle that locked onto Rudolf's nose, and killed him by oral penatration.

(and that just sounds wrong!)

ttyl

[spinsterbait.livejournal.com]

Actually, as a pilot, even in a small single-engine aircraft, there are animals that you will literally kill if you fly too close to the ground where they are living (especially at mating time). In Canada, there are certain signs that are visible from the air when a farm is raising such a species or during the sensitive mating periods.

[electricvelvet.livejournal.com]

:-( This is why the Innu were fighting against NATO using Ntassinnan/Labrador as a flyover for practise strafing runs - the caribou were getting stressed and becoming sick, plus many were dropping dead of fright. I do think there needs to be somewhere for the NATO jets to practise but what is the point of killing wildlife? Maybe they should just do the runs over the middle of the oceans?

Hell , I don't know.

I wish we dodn't need things like NATO but that's not going to happen anytime soon. :-(

Then there is the Navy causing whales and dolphins etc to beach becasue of their expletivce delted sonar tests. They have anew kind of sonar that c auses a lot of problmes... I think it is ultralow frequency or something... it is different from the old type and it is causing proiblmes - the test ferquencies can be heard a thousand miles away underwater and it is at a deafening level of decibals.

I sometimes wish I could take all the psychoopaths, warmongers and just plain dummies and put them somewhere where the only ones they could harm were themselves.

:-(


Good intentions: the paving bricks of hell.


http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0308/p08s03-comv.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0308/p08s03-comv.html

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/07/28/beached.whales/

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/01/1033283487500.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/08/tech/main518009.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1231-02.htm

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

There are places that have no wildlife that would be harmed...and with simulators today, they can be very accurate in their portayal of reality. That said, they will still need places outside to train, and they should make sure that the places where they train are safe. I hate the fact that we need both police and a military...but there are still too many people who embrace violence as an initial reaction to anything.

ttyl

[spinsterbait.livejournal.com]

I had seen this one myself and, despite its real tragedy, the circumstances and names involved where just too darkly humerous and I've been chuckling about it since I read it. ;)

[spinsterbait.livejournal.com]

somewhere where the only ones they could harm were themselves

I thought that was New Jersey...

flyovers and sonar

I completely agree. It's just not necessary. I guess there's nobody to complain who has enough money to bother with :(.