Happy Labor Day: Watch Your Back

Today is Labor Day. You know who never takes a vacation? The Panamanian Golden Frog.

Here's what you need to know if a Panamanian Golden Frog shows up at your barbeque:

1. It uses its little hands to wave at other Panamanian Golden Frogs. Sometimes these waves are friendly, but sometimes it means they want to kill us. I don't know the difference.
2. It's not really a frog. It's a toad.
3. For @#$%'s sake, don't lick it!
4. Wearing white is now considered ok after Labor Day, but probably not to a funeral.

They Want to Delay Us

Travelers were delayed at John F. Kennedy Airport Wednesday morning after about 150 turtles ambled onto a runway and blocked air traffic from moving.

JetBlue first tweeted news of the slowdown, with the hashtag #cantmakethisup.

The Port Authority later confirmed that workers had to clear the notoriously slow reptiles out of the area. The migration is a familiar occurrence at the airport, which is located near Jamaica Bay. The turtles typically head out of the bay to nest on the beach each summer.

The turtles were mostly gathered on runway 4L, plus nearby taxiways, starting at about 6:45 a.m., the Port Authority said.

The turtles were identified as diamondback terrapins.

Perhaps if they had been snapping turtles -- the New York state reptile since 2006 -- they would have been given official clearance to stay.

The runway turtles aren't the first animals to complicate air traffic at New York City airports.

The city has sought to reduce the local geese population in recent years, following the crash of U.S. Airways Flight 1549, which sucked geese into its engines and had to land in the Hudson River.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43577945/ns/local_news-new_york_ny

Twittering Reptiles

If you live in New York or anywhere with news, you probably know about the Egyptian cobra that escaped from the Bronx Zoo last Saturday. Well, today it was found, so this post isn't really breaking news so much as history or whatever. Sorry, we've had other things on our minds, like the war on Libya and the discovery of world's worst song ever.

Anyway, while on its bender, the snake created a Twitter account, and it is terrific! We hope it keeps posting even now that it's back under lock and key. Sssssss.