At least they didn't threaten you with grievious bodily harm. During
the 1992 election, I was preflighting my plane at SMO. George I rolled
up by limo to the FBO across the field unnanounced and was preparing
to ---eventually--- leave by helicopter. The Secret Service came along
the ramp and informed each person to get in his or her airplane, close
the windows and not open them. The penalty for opening the airplane's
window was to be shot by the snipers around the field - at least
according to the agent (who was openly armed). So, for 20 minutes on
the 80+ degree afternoon, my family and I were forced to sit in a
Cessna 182 with the windows closed while King George did whatever he
was doing out of sight in a building that was across 2 wide ramps, two
taxi ways, and a 150 foot wide runway from where we were sitting --
all under penalty of summary execution.

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 13:25:41 UTC, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

After living in Iowa for the last 7 years, it seemed that we were the only
ones left who had NOT been to the "Great Iowa State Fair." This year is
the 150th anniversary of this grand old tradition, so last weekend we
decided to check it out.