Is it time to arm crop duster pilots as well as airline pilots?

ost (Ditch) wrote in message ...
Living here in the South after growing up in California, I can attest that
the 'bumpkin' stereotypes did not become stereotypes without reason.
And that's all I have to say about that.

Same situation...but I was able to escape and head back west. They have earned
the sterotype.

John
Perhaps many of them moved to central California? I was shot at a
number of times in the San Joaquin valley in both airplanes and
helicopters with at least one hit.
Having sprayed in many parts of the country, and world, I've been shot
at more than a few times. On at least one occasion I shot back and
dumped a load of highly toxic chemical on terrorists who were shooting
at me in Mozambique. But it was a time of civil war and I also carried
a sub-machine gun everywhere I went. Had to use it in the house one
night when my wife woke me to say someone was moving about....but
thats a story for a different time.
Ol Shy & Bashful
BTW, even the locals ridicule the "redneck" stereotype who seem to
crop up in every part of the world.


-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*

Perhaps many of them moved to central California?

Could be...but these days, many of the sleepy towns in the Valley or becoming
subdivisions to someplace. Tract housing abounds!

I was shot at a
number of times in the San Joaquin valley in both airplanes and
helicopters with at least one hit.

I was shot at while flying an Air Tractor in Georgia. Didn't get hit, tho...


-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*

Yikes.... really opened a 'wound' out there ;-)

Okay, I've lived in the city of San Francisco, proper, ALL my life. My
father and all my relatives (except for my mother) are from West Virginia.

If you want to address a different type of ignorance or 'stupidity', lookey
here at good ole S.F. where some people think that the only thing that the
poor in Appalachia really need is access to more latte' stands and that
owning a BMW, really IS the way to solving the woes of mankind.

I've certainly had the misfortune of meeting those that give life to the
'redneck' and 'country bumpkin' stereotypes. Those that make you question
if the 'missing link' still exists in our populations. ALL I was attempting
to say, is that when I've been in Kentucky (where my mother ((long
deceased)) was born) or West Virginia, or the sleepier parts of Louisiana,
etc... I've generally met perfect strangers who share a warm good morning
and welcome to you (instead of averting their gaze, afraid to talk to
anyone - like here in the city), open their homes to you once they see you
are a good person. I've eaten with families that have invited me over for
dinner, when, as I saw their circumstance, it was clear that they barely had
enough to keep themselves going. I've seen great generosity come from those
that have little. Indeed, I've found some of the most giving souls in our
country out in the far reaches of rural areas and some of the most selfish
souls here in the cities; conspicuously spending to accumulate goods to the
point of gross excess, but wouldn't share a dime or a smile with you.

BTW, I had to address the post reply about the hooded cross-burners....
Yes, unfortunately those people do exist and in all fairness they probably
exist, but in a more subtle way out here in the city. More sophisticated in
their 'hangings', they block careers, close doors of opportunity - same ugly
prejudice,,, just shows itself in a different way. Once again, though, I
remind myself that those people are such a small part of the population and
not the measure to judge 'the whole', by.

Despite maintaining a healthy amount of cynicism, I truly believe there is
exceptional goodness out there and I must say that I've seen it most from
those that give freely even though they have little themselves.

That's all I was trying to say.....

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"Cecil E. Chapman" wrote in message
. com...
Ya know the real problem is that idiots, such as the one you mentioned
'fuel
the fires' of the stereotype of the buck-toothed, ignorant country
'bumpkin'
and make a beautiful part of the country (with many people who truly have
hearts of gold and are the very soul of what is good about America) the
brunt of an onslaught of 'hick' jokes. :-(

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Cecil
PP-ASEL
Student-IASEL

Check out my personal flying adventures from my first flight to the
checkride AND the continuing adventures beyond!
Complete with pictures and text at: www.bayareapilot.com

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

"We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with
this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet"
- Cecil Day Lewis -