Man and Pet Opossum Booted off JetBlue Flight

A California man and his pet opossum were on a return JetBlue flight, when they got booted off the flight while on a delay. Gerald Tautenhahn said to have received clearance from the Department of Transportation (DOT) and JetBlue months prior to their flight to Austin, Texas. Regardless, the JetBlue cabin crew left them stranded for four days at Austin.

Eventually, Zatara and Gerald found their way back home.

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Guys help #bringzatarahome ! #jetblue let me fly from Long Beach airport to Austin Texas and now They won't let me fly home! . We boarded the plane to go home and after a 30 minute delay, a Jet blue employee had me get off the plane and said I couldn't fly. . After 3 hours on the phone with jet blue they told me to rent a car and drive back to CA. The crew at #longbeach and #austin all took pictures with me and loved me but now they're trying to act like they didn't know I was an #Opossum! There's pics of them holding me!!! . All I wanna do is get home back to #california ! Please pass this along and share with everyone and help me find a way to fly back home! . #petstagram #pets #texas #animallovers #fly #home #help

A post shared by Zatara (@zataratheopossum) on Dec 12, 2019 at 12:49pm PST

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