A friend of mine is an FO at a big LCC here in America... he relayed this encounter on his trip the other day...

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The flight attendant was telling me about her eleven year old cat with a heart condition. She just spent $5000 at the vet. I was trying my best to be sympathetic. The captain came over and she repeated her story. He blurted out "why didn't you just shoot the thing?"
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