Originally published at: SAS flight makes emergency landing when a live mouse pops out of a passenger's meal - Boing Boing
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“Excuse me, but I did order the vegetarian meal.”
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Seems a bit excessive. I’d rather arrive on time with a mouse on board than delayed for hours so that the mouse can visit Copenhagen
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So did Remy.
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I blame Boeing 
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“That’s OK, sir. The mouse is a vegetarian.”
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Was this the passenger?
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Right? If they said that my first instinct would be to go look for that damn mouse. On the other hand I’ve seen people absolutely lose their minds over small flying insects and the very idea of rodents. I imagine their motivation for grounding is avoiding panic as opposed to, say the mouse taking over the flight controls.
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I know the story sounds funny, but mice constantly chew things including the insulation on wiring. It’s not hard to imagine shorted/broken wiring in a critical system causing a disaster.
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Incidentally, the meal was untouched. Mice do have standards, y’know.
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When you see one mouse, there’s mice, so there is the safety issue. Also, it might have been a pest quarantine control protocol. 
I’m guessing, but I can imagine that places without hantavirus wouldn’t want random rodents entering. For insects, they’d probably just gas the plane and passengers, but mice are harder to kill.
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TIL “disinsection” is a word, even if my web browser’s spellcheck refuses to acknowledge it. Thanks!
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SAS is totally missing an opportunity if they don’t make that mouse is mascot / spokes mouse.
Who’s the leader of the plane
That’s made for you and me?
S-A-S-S-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Hey! there, Hi! there, Ho! there
You’re as welcome as can be!
S-A-S-S-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
SASsey Mouse!
SASsey Mouse!
Forever let us hold our banner high!
High! high! high!
Come along and sing a song
And join the jamboree!
S-A-S-S-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
If you can improve the lyric, feel free to to comment.
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The snakes might have helped
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But then they would’ve needed hungry mongooses to kill the snakes 
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“This is something that happens extremely rarely,” said a spokesperson for SAS.
Noted.
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