Do we, as a group, just suck?

"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
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Hilton,

The answer to your question is "Yes".

I guess it didn't make the news in the US, but we have a flight
prohibition for VFR aircraft coming for our capital, Berlin. Also for
big events and the upcoming soccer world championship next year. The
reason:

On Friday, an ultralight pilot who had killed his wife over her having
a lover decided that he didn't like the police catching up with him and
committed suicide. He did that by flying his Kiebitz ultralight into
the Berlin CTR without clearance or radio contact and crash it (and
himself) on a lawn between the "Reichstag" (our parliament building)
and the "Kanzleramt" (our Whitehouse). I am NOT making this up.

Politicos and the public went bananas over this, of course. Cynic that
I am, I can only be glad for the bombings in Egypt taking away a lot of
the attention from this.



Now maybe it never happens over there, but every so often people do take a
vehicle to commit spectacular suicide. Every so often they take somebody
innocent with them; apparently he didn't even do that, so suicide by
airplane was probably *safer* to the general population rather than having
him choose some other vehicle and going the wrong way up the autobahn.

The politicos should actually have applauded that Darwin did his job with
minimum damage, and they didn't have to unravel 50 vehicles from a
smouldering pile.