Jack Hanna Gets Stuck With A Flamingo

6:03 pm EST September 17th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

This is what we call an aggressively silly story.

Animal expert Jack Hanna and an 11-month-old flamingo became trapped while trying to squeeze through an airport security turnstile. It took firefighters to finally get the flamingo out.

Hanna, the director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and a frequent guest on nationally televised talk shows, was returning from a zoo fundraiser with a mongoose, a small leopard and the flamingo. Three other people were with them.

The entourage arrived at the Ohio State University Airport just after midnight Sunday to find the terminal closed. The only way to leave the tarmac was through a 10-foot-tall metal turnstile with several horizontal bars — not the easiest exit to squeeze through when you’re traveling with boxed-up animals, Hanna said.

“I never thought about the crate being square and the turnstile being round,” he said.

Hanna, 60, pushed the flamingo’s 2-foot-by-3-foot compartment into the turnstile, then continued pushing while straddling the crate.

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2 Responses to “Jack Hanna Gets Stuck With A Flamingo”

  1. OxyCon says:
    September 17, 2007 at 6:57 pm

    Now we know it isn’t an act…Jack Hanna really is a few bricks shy of a load.

  2. Camilla says:
    September 15, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    Hmm, I always thought it was part of adding comedy to his appearances on shows and stuff but he really must be kind of ditzy when it comes down to it. I adore Jack Hannah though and I just saw him on The Tonight Show and he was just as hilarious as ever. Next time maybe he will treat it as a puzzle and not force a peice to fit where it obviously doesn’t. I still love when he appears on Maury though, the ditziness he has will keep me coming back.