Caught red handed

On 30 Dec 2006 22:58:45 -0800, wrote:

OK, forget the Iraq part.

Just explain why Americans think homosexual rape is both amusing and
appropriate for petty criminals.

I don't find it amusing, but are you so sure it's "petty"? Stealing
avionics is a federal offense, the penalty for which can even be the
death penalty if such theft causes somebody else's death. How amusing
would it be if the theft went undetected, and then the airplane
crashed, and the pilot and/or passengers died because the missing ELT
made them impossible to locate?

-Dana
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wrote:
Weird how comfortable, even gleeful, Americans are about using
homosexual rape as punishment for crimes.

Wasn't the purpored existence of Sadam Hussein's "rape rooms" part of
the justification for the Iraq invasion?


mad8 wrote:
since it was on airport property, doesn't that make it a federal crime?
if so, bubbah is about to get a couple new girlfriends


If someone steals something from my plane,,, homosexual rape is mild
compared to what I will do to him/her......

I HATE thiefs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ya know that looks like its speeled wrong.. G

It might even be a Federal offense.



"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
oups.com...
|I just got a CAP msg across the wire about 4 ELTs that went
off at an
| airport all at once. (I"m not sure if I'm allowed to post
the actual
| transmission or mission details).
| The first 3 signals were found in aircraft that had been
broken into.
| The 4th signal was found in a van down the street with a
couple young
| men who seemed surprised to see people in uniform approach
them!!! The
| moral of the story is, don't steal electronics if you
don't know what
| they are!
|
| -Robert
|

Jim Macklin wrote:
It might even be a Federal offense.



"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
oups.com...
|I just got a CAP msg across the wire about 4 ELTs that went
off at an
| airport all at once. (I"m not sure if I'm allowed to post
the actual
| transmission or mission details).
| The first 3 signals were found in aircraft that had been
broken into.
| The 4th signal was found in a van down the street with a
couple young
| men who seemed surprised to see people in uniform approach
them!!! The
| moral of the story is, don't steal electronics if you
don't know what
| they are!

There was one like that is Scotland (South Erskine?) many
years ago. Guy thought that the emergency transmitter from his
work on the offshore oil rig would be just the thing for his boat.
Trouble was it went off in his loft. If I recall correctly
it may have been Christmas day at 0300 or something like that
when the sound of beating rotors woke him up.

I wonder why there is a Sea King hovering 50 feet over my house?

I seem to recall that he was charged with theft.
Probably didn't have to pay for the helicopter which
would have got his attention.

It was maybe 25 years ago and I think that the rescue services
had to expend a lot of effort to locate the beacon. I am sure
that it is easier now but they were designed pretty much for
use in the open and not for locating a particular house in a town.