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In what seems a story coming from Iran rather than the US, the land of the brave and free, an American woman was kicked out of a plane because her dress is too revealing. The woman went on TV to prove her point, that she wasn't dressed "inappropriately", how SouthWest airline put it. Ebbert, 23, told the Today Show's Matt Lauer that an airline employee asked her to come up to the front of the plane just before the crew closed the plane's doors.  "He told me, 'I'm sorry but you're going to have to catch a later flight because you are dressed inappropriately, this is a family airline and you are too provocative to fly on this flight'," Ebbert said. "I said, 'What part is it? The shirt? The skirt? Which part?' He said, 'the whole thing.'" Ebbert said she was on a day trip from San Diego to Tucson for a doctor's appointment and had no luggage, so she had nothing to change into. She was allowed to stay on the flight, she said, after agreeing to pull up her tank top and pull down her skirt. Ebbert wore the same outfit on the Today Show that she was wearing at the time of the incident, she said. SouthWest in a statement said that they have acted as regulated in the procedure. | ||||||
CUERO -- Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She has been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it.
But the roadkill she found last month outside of her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical bloodsucking chupacabra.
"It is one ugly creature," Canion said, holding the head of the mammal with big ears, large fanged teeth and grayish-blue, mostly hairless skin.
Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 90 miles southeast of San Antonio. Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she can get to get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing.
She suspects, as have many rural denizens over the years, that the chupacabra may have killed up to 26 of her chickens in the last couple of years.
What tipped Canion to the possibility that this was no ugly coyote, but perhaps the legendary creature, is that the chickens weren't eaten or carried off -- all the blood was drained from them, she said.
Chupacabra means "goat sucker" in Spanish.
But what folks are calling a chupacabra is probably just a strange dog, said veterinarian Travis Schaar of the Main Street Animal Hospital in nearby Victoria.
