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Some people need to lighten up a bit.

Deep-fried turkey grounded at Dulles

CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) — Add deep-fried turkey to the list of banned substances at Dulles International Airport.

A holiday party last week at the airport's administrative offices drew a fire marshal and complaints from union officials upset with the menu: a deep-fried turkey prepared on site that they deemed a fire hazard.

"It has ... come to my attention that the Dulles Management decided it would be a nice idea to DEEP FRY A TURKEY in the Dulles administrative quarters, surrounded by carpet, linoleum, an airport, aircraft, a control tower, thousands if not millions of gallons of jet fuel and thousands of passengers and employees," Kieron Heflin, an air traffic controller's union representative, complained in a letter to management. [...]

Okay, now maybe they have a point, although if you read the rest of the article, it doesn't seem to have been quite the disaster-waiting-to-happen it's made out to be by the union rep. And I guess that's my beef--there's nothing wrong with trying to maintain a safe work environment, but the tone of the memo is so childish and insipid and so full of overwrought hysteria that it only serves to make the writer look like a humorless, imbecilic twit.

Surely that's not what was intended.

I'm sure everyone at Dulles has enough to do without making this into an issue.

Then again, maybe not.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at December 22, 2006 11:04 AM