"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"David Herman" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Ash Wyllie" wrote in message
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I wonder how many modelers even know that NOTAMS even exist?


What are they going to do: take your model airplane license away?

Well, they might just shoot you.


Redmond, WA (AP) -- Model Airplane Enthusiast Shot by Secret Service

Model airplane enthusiast David Adams was shot and killed by Secret
Service
agents today as hundreds of young soccer players and their parents looked
on
in horror. The Marymoor model airplane field was supposed to be closed
during Presidential candidate John Kerry's visit to Microsoft, but no
notices were posted. Agents claimed that they had attempted to shout
warnings to Adams, who had lost his hearing when a hand grenade exploded
near him while he was stationed with the Marines in Afghanistan. Agents
for
the Secret Service accused Adams of being a potential terrorist who might
use his model plane in an attack.

The FAA had issued notices to pilots that there was to be no model
airplane
activity at the park, but local RC modelers claimed that they had never
received them. Adams is survived by his wife and two small children. The
Kerry campaign expressed regret at the incident and claimed that critics
of
the shooting had links to the Bush campaign. Kerry himself noted that
Adams
was a contributor to the Bush campaign.

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Nope. Don't see it happening. Presidential candidates have just too tough
a
time getting elected if their bodyguards go around shooting people at
random.

The scenario certainly sounds absurd. But it's no more absurd than having
F-16s shoot down some geezer in his Aeronca who fails to check for NOTAMs
and stumbles into some rolling string of pop-up TFRs over a Bush-Cheney
campaign bus trip. I think it's not too far fetched to expect that if the
current insanity continues, it may just be a matter of time before something
like that actually does occur. Frankly I think we've been lucky that some
tragedy like this hasn't happened yet (we came REAL close with the Governor
of Kentucky).

Of course in your scenario you've got things turned around with regard to
the incumbent./challenger: the TFRs - and, presumably, the TRRs (Temporary
Rocketry Restrictions) - go up around Bush & Cheney, not Kerry or Edwards
(at least not yet....knock on wood).

They'll take away my Estes Big Bertha when they pry it out of my cold, dead
fingers.....


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David Herman
N6170T 1965 Cessna 150E
Boeing Field (BFI), Seattle, WA
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