Stubby wrote:

The real fools would
play "chicken" with the plane, trying to become propellor-bait.

Pilots in China during WWII had to deal with this behaviour all the time. The
lower class Chinese believed that if they ran close enough ahead of the props of
a rapidly moving aircraft, the props would chop up their personal demons, who
would be following them. Did you notice if any of these guys near Boston were
oriental? :-)

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.