Rogue's Gallery Almost Got Me in Trouble

We had an incident a few days ago at my home airport with a couple in a Cessna 182 that never showed
up after a local flight. It still hasn't been determined whether the flight ran into difficulty or where they
went. The story was on the news last night and as we're watching the TV coverage, my wife says, "hey
that's our airplane". Sure enough, the TV story was using a picture of MY airplane. I recognized the
picture and knew it was on the Rogue's gallery website. The original story just showed the picture as an
example of a typical Cessna 182, and in fact the story reported the tail number of the actual subject
aircraft. But then in a later news story last night, the newscaster clearly referred to my picture as THE
aircraft involved in this incident.

I emailed the TV station and they pulled the picture off their website, but said "you might want to check
with the Phoenix police department. They issued a missing persons bulletin with this picture on it." Great,
now my airplane is a fugitive from justice! So, I called the police dept, and the detective got back to me
right away and said they had just done a search for a 182 similar to the description, but should have
obscured the tail number before publishing it. Well, they immediately updated their bulletin to obscure the
tail number, but as he told me, "there could be some of these posters already printed." Great - maybe I
won't go to Sedona tomorrow! I can just see some Barney Fife-type impounding my airplane, "We got a
bulletin says the Phoenix PD is looking for this airplane".

http://www.phoenix.gov/police/missin...r_westover.pdf
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/rogue's_gallery_a-h.htm

It is a good picture if I do say so myself - good Arizona scenery, perfect for television! Jay, do you have
any copyright disclaimers on the website?

Mike

Word on the street is that Alexis Park Inn is to be the new place where
America's Most Wanted will be filmed and produced. I can see it now,
Come stay in the Jerry Springer" suite and watch reruns of real true
to life stories........... I am tellin ya that Jay has a way with
marketing for sure. G

Snickerin..
Ben
Mike Adams wrote:
We had an incident a few days ago at my home airport with a couple in a Cessna 182 that never showed
up after a local flight. It still hasn't been determined whether the flight ran into difficulty or where they
went. The story was on the news last night and as we're watching the TV coverage, my wife says, "hey
that's our airplane". Sure enough, the TV story was using a picture of MY airplane. I recognized the
picture and knew it was on the Rogue's gallery website. The original story just showed the picture as an
example of a typical Cessna 182, and in fact the story reported the tail number of the actual subject
aircraft. But then in a later news story last night, the newscaster clearly referred to my picture as THE
aircraft involved in this incident.

I emailed the TV station and they pulled the picture off their website, but said "you might want to check
with the Phoenix police department. They issued a missing persons bulletin with this picture on it." Great,
now my airplane is a fugitive from justice! So, I called the police dept, and the detective got back to me
right away and said they had just done a search for a 182 similar to the description, but should have
obscured the tail number before publishing it. Well, they immediately updated their bulletin to obscure the
tail number, but as he told me, "there could be some of these posters already printed." Great - maybe I
won't go to Sedona tomorrow! I can just see some Barney Fife-type impounding my airplane, "We got a
bulletin says the Phoenix PD is looking for this airplane".

http://www.phoenix.gov/police/missin...r_westover.pdf
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/rogue's_gallery_a-h.htm

It is a good picture if I do say so myself - good Arizona scenery, perfect for television! Jay, do you have
any copyright disclaimers on the website?

Mike

Sorry for your trouble Mike, but thanks for the laugh. This has to be one
of the best Rec.Aviation stories I've ever heard.

Jim

"Mike Adams" wrote in message
news:s4lTg.15970$nm1.10571@fed1read04...
We had an incident a few days ago at my home airport with a couple in a
Cessna 182 that never showed
up after a local flight. It still hasn't been determined whether the
flight ran into difficulty or where they
went. The story was on the news last night and as we're watching the TV
coverage, my wife says, "hey
that's our airplane". Sure enough, the TV story was using a picture of MY
airplane. I recognized the
picture and knew it was on the Rogue's gallery website. The original story
just showed the picture as an
example of a typical Cessna 182, and in fact the story reported the tail
number of the actual subject
aircraft. But then in a later news story last night, the newscaster
clearly referred to my picture as THE
aircraft involved in this incident.

I emailed the TV station and they pulled the picture off their website,
but said "you might want to check
with the Phoenix police department. They issued a missing persons bulletin
with this picture on it." Great,
now my airplane is a fugitive from justice! So, I called the police dept,
and the detective got back to me
right away and said they had just done a search for a 182 similar to the
description, but should have
obscured the tail number before publishing it. Well, they immediately
updated their bulletin to obscure the
tail number, but as he told me, "there could be some of these posters
already printed." Great - maybe I
won't go to Sedona tomorrow! I can just see some Barney Fife-type
impounding my airplane, "We got a
bulletin says the Phoenix PD is looking for this airplane".

http://www.phoenix.gov/police/missin...r_westover.pdf
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/rogue's_gallery_a-h.htm

It is a good picture if I do say so myself - good Arizona scenery, perfect
for television! Jay, do you have
any copyright disclaimers on the website?

Mike

("Jim Burns" wrote)
http://www.phoenix.gov/police/missin...r_westover.pdf
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/rogue's_gallery_a-h.htm

It is a good picture if I do say so myself - good Arizona scenery,
perfect for television! Jay, do you have any copyright disclaimers on the
website?


Sorry for your trouble Mike, but thanks for the laugh. This has to be one
of the best Rec.Aviation stories I've ever heard.


"...copyright disclaimers on the website?"

I nearly wet myself. g


Montblack
Hope it works out ok for the two in the "other" Cessna.

"Montblack" wrote:

"...copyright disclaimers on the website?"

I nearly wet myself. g

Yea, I realize that's a big stretch!

Hope it works out ok for the two in the "other" Cessna.

Yes, I don't mean to trivialize the situation, which could still be very serious.

Mike

Sure enough, the TV story was using a picture of MY airplane. I recognized the
picture and knew it was on the Rogue's gallery website.

God almighty, Mike, that's the weirdest tale I've heard in a long time.


Sorry for the headache -- what *are* the odds of that happening? There
must be hundreds -- thousands? -- of pictures of Cessnas on the
internet!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...
Sure enough, the TV story was using a picture of MY airplane. I
recognized the
picture and knew it was on the Rogue's gallery website.

God almighty, Mike, that's the weirdest tale I've heard in a long time.


Sorry for the headache -- what *are* the odds of that happening? There
must be hundreds -- thousands? -- of pictures of Cessnas on the
internet!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


Hey, wouldn't the Rogue's Gallery be a good place to start looking for,
well, you know, "THAT" kind of person?

Al G

On 2006-09-30, Jay Honeck wrote:
Sorry for the headache -- what *are* the odds of that happening? There
must be hundreds -- thousands? -- of pictures of Cessnas on the
internet!

Happened to me once - there was a news story about someone crashing a
Beech Musketeer, and CNN linked to my page on the Beech Musketeer. I
noticed when I was suddenly getting tens of thousands of hits on that
page and checked the referrer!

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Mike Adams wrote:

It is a good picture if I do say so myself - good Arizona scenery, perfect for television! Jay, do you have
any copyright disclaimers on the website?

The story of the mix-up and the fact that the police and/or news research
crew using Jay's site for the picture were amusing. However, the
underlying incident is not.

Any word about the missing aircraft?

--
Peter

"Peter R." wrote:

The story of the mix-up and the fact that the police and/or news
research crew using Jay's site for the picture were amusing. However,
the underlying incident is not.

I agree.

Any word about the missing aircraft?

Nothing new. The CAP conducted searches a few days ago between here and Sedona, but nothing new
has been announced in the media. We've had good weather all week, so that's not a factor. But even
though the path between Phoenix and Sedona is well-travelled, there's still a lot of open country between
here and there.

Here's an earlier story: http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news...ng0929-CP.html

Mike