DFW invites Anubis to watch aircraft
The Dallas Morning News Airline Biz Blog is reporting that they have placed a 25 foot tall statue of the Egyptian god Anubis at their new Founders Plaza airplane watching area. Anubis is the god of the dead with a body of a human and the head of a jackal.
There is no doubt in mind that whoever at the DFW airport board decided that this was a good idea will shortly be looking for new careers on Monster.Com. I’m pretty sure you don’t want to put the god of the dead from any culture anywhere near where people are about to take off on an aircraft.
OTOH I’m reasonably certain most people flying in or out of DFW wouldn’t know Anubis was the god of the dead. For that matter, I’d say most of ’em wouldn’t know the statue in question was Anubis at all.
(I, OTOOH, think 5,000+-yr-old planespotters are pretty cool.)
-R