Noise Nazi Gets Cumuppance

Today, we flew several Veterans' Day flyovers as part of the ceremony on
the ground.

The wife of one of our pilots was at her church's gift stand when some
fool (sounds like another 'jgrove") complained about the noise.

She:"They are flying over as part of the Veterans' Day ceremony."
He: "How do you know that?"
She: "Because my husband is flying one of the airplanes -- you got a
problem with that?"

On 11 Nov 2007 21:03:57 GMT, James Robinson wrote:


In Canada, they observe two minutes of silence at 11 AM on Nov 11 as a
memorial to those who have died in battle. They even stop the trains for
two minutes on one of the railroads. You will frequently hear
announcements in stores and businesses just before 11 AM reminding people
of the tradition.

Supposedly, Terry Kelly, a musician, was in a store and observed** a
person ignoring the moment of silence when everyone else was, and wrote a
song about the episode. It became a huge hit.

You can listen to/download/watch the video of the song on the following
site:

http://www.army.gc.ca/chief_land_sta...glish/Home.asp

I've got a version of that song done by Hank Cramer, a folk singer in the
Pacific Northwest, but hadn't known the specific story behind it. Thanks for
the link.

For other veterans proud of their service, I recommend Cramer's CD, "A Soldier's
Songs" (http://www.hankcramer.com/). I enjoyed his music for ten years before
the liner notes of this album revealed to me that he's also Army Reserve
Lt.Col., and the son of one of the first Green Berets who died in Vietnam. He
traces his own family's tradition military service back to the mid-1700s, and
the album has great versions of songs about the warriors in most of the wars
since then.

Obligatory aviation content: He does a killer version of "Blood Upon the
Risers"....

Ron Wanttaja

In article
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Orval Fairbairn wrote:

Today, we flew several Veterans' Day flyovers as part of the ceremony on
the ground.

The wife of one of our pilots was at her church's gift stand when some
fool (sounds like another 'jgrove") complained about the noise.

She:"They are flying over as part of the Veterans' Day ceremony."
He: "How do you know that?"
She: "Because my husband is flying one of the airplanes -- you got a
problem with that?"

and what was the pinhead's response?

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

In article ,
Bob Noel wrote:

In article
,
Orval Fairbairn wrote:

Today, we flew several Veterans' Day flyovers as part of the ceremony on
the ground.

The wife of one of our pilots was at her church's gift stand when some
fool (sounds like another 'jgrove") complained about the noise.

She:"They are flying over as part of the Veterans' Day ceremony."
He: "How do you know that?"
She: "Because my husband is flying one of the airplanes -- you got a
problem with that?"

and what was the pinhead's response?

no response.

"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message
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In article ,
Bob Noel wrote:

In article
,
Orval Fairbairn wrote:

Today, we flew several Veterans' Day flyovers as part of the ceremony
on
the ground.

The wife of one of our pilots was at her church's gift stand when some
fool (sounds like another 'jgrove") complained about the noise.

She:"They are flying over as part of the Veterans' Day ceremony."
He: "How do you know that?"
She: "Because my husband is flying one of the airplanes -- you got a
problem with that?"

and what was the pinhead's response?

no response.

Kinda hard to offer any response when ones foot is tightly wedged in ones
mouth.

In article ,
"Matt W. Barrow" wrote:

She:"They are flying over as part of the Veterans' Day ceremony."
He: "How do you know that?"
She: "Because my husband is flying one of the airplanes -- you got a
problem with that?"

and what was the pinhead's response?

no response.

Kinda hard to offer any response when ones foot is tightly wedged in ones
mouth.

I was hoping that the pinhead would have apologized.

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

She:"They are flying over as part of the Veterans' Day ceremony."
He: "How do you know that?"
She: "Because my husband is flying one of the airplanes -- you got a
problem with that?"

I like her style.

We had a similar incident in Iowa City in September, when the SX-300
group was doing their fly-in here. They were doing formation fly-bys
over the city -- which 99.5% of the citizenry absolutely LOVED -- when
some idiot called the police complaining about "the noise".

The cops actually came to the airport and inquired about what was
going on -- but, of course, had no jurisdiction and didn't really know
what to do other than "respond". So they just looked around and
left.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
She:"They are flying over as part of the Veterans' Day ceremony."
He: "How do you know that?"
She: "Because my husband is flying one of the airplanes -- you got a
problem with that?"

I like her style.

We had a similar incident in Iowa City in September, when the SX-300
group was doing their fly-in here. They were doing formation fly-bys
over the city -- which 99.5% of the citizenry absolutely LOVED -- when
some idiot called the police complaining about "the noise".

The cops actually came to the airport and inquired about what was
going on -- but, of course, had no jurisdiction and didn't really know
what to do other than "respond". So they just looked around and
left.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


Police have to respond whether they think the request is ridiculous or not.
Reminds me of a buddies party that had the cops show up for noise, cop said
turn it down, and if he got another call he would be back, but it would take
him a LONG time to get back to that side of town.

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DW

In article .com,
Jay Honeck wrote:

She:"They are flying over as part of the Veterans' Day ceremony."
He: "How do you know that?"
She: "Because my husband is flying one of the airplanes -- you got a
problem with that?"

I like her style.

Joanie is a BIG woman and is reputed to be the daughter of a NY Mafia
Don. She doesn't suffer fools and can be quite intimidating.



We had a similar incident in Iowa City in September, when the SX-300
group was doing their fly-in here. They were doing formation fly-bys
over the city -- which 99.5% of the citizenry absolutely LOVED -- when
some idiot called the police complaining about "the noise".

Gee -- now just *WHO* could those perps be? Do I know any of them? ;)

Keith is the leader of our Gaggle and was leading the flyover, led by 3
SX-300s, followed by 8 RVs, then White Flight, led by Joanie's husband,
then Varga Flight.

Darkwing wrote:


Police have to respond whether they think the request is ridiculous
or not. Reminds me of a buddies party that had the cops show up for
noise, cop said turn it down, and if he got another call he would be
back, but it would take him a LONG time to get back to that side of
town.


Where did you get that idea? The police are under no obligation to do so.