Offering the Middle-digit Salute in Response to Brazil

Proof, that what goes around, comes around:


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AVflash Volume 10, Number 04a -- January 19, 2004
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....AND BIRD-FLIPPING PILOT RILES BRAZILIANS
Capt. Dale Robin Hersh discovered the Brazilian authorities' preferred
level of etiquette after last Wednesday allegedly offering the
middle-digit salute in response to Brazil's new requirement that
American visitors submit to photographs and fingerprinting ... which
is how Brazilians are welcomed to the U.S. under new security rules.
Hersh's alleged gesture (maybe that's how he always holds things)
landed him in a federal courthouse where formal charges awaited, but
"Since this was a minor crime, I proposed that he be fined $12,750,
which will be donated to a home for the elderly," Matheus Baraldi
Magnani told the Associated Press.
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#186508