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So I hear where a guy climbed into a single-engine Cessna and was flying erratically near the Michigan state line before being intercepted by a squadron of F-16s on Monday.
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THEN
Those F-16s that were summoned to tail the stolen Cessna were from the Wisconsin National Guard. Because my mind works in strange ways, the first thing I thought of was the following conversation between John Winger (Bill Murray) and Russell Ziskey (Harold Ramis) in "Stripes," when they were contemplating driving the EM-50 urban assault vehicle behind enemy lines without prior approval from Sgt. Hulka.
Winger:"C'mon, it's Czechoslovakia. We zip in, we pick 'em up, we zip right out again. We're not going to Moscow. It's Czechoslovakia. It's like going into Wisconsin."
Ziskey: "Well I got the (tar) kicked out of me in Wisconsin once. Forget it!"
Why wasn't that plane NOT shot down? They emptied capital buildings in Madison. They did not talk to the pilot. They couldn't have known it wasn't another 9/11 event. The military should have shot this plane down. No Questions. We need to protect our country, from one corner to the other corner. It doesn't have to be NYC or Washington, DC. Every city and town must have the same protection. So, why wasn't this plane shot down?
JP:
I'm not with the military or the government or even the Wisconsin National Guard so I can't answer that.
It ended OK, though. The guy hitched a ride to a convenience store, bought a Gatorade and waited for the authorities to show up where he surrendered peacefully.
He said he was trying to commit suicide and thought those F-16s would accommodate him.
I hope these was not a dry run for something much bigger.
Were "Pussy Galore's Flying Circus" flying in Cessnas in the film version of "Goldfinger", or were those Piper Cherokees? Where is 007fan with some useful information?
I'm from Wisconsin. There's a couple things you have to understand about Wisconsin government.
1. It was after 5 p.m. Anyone who sucks off the public trough has escaped that building by 5 p.m. No one except two janitors and a scrub woman were in the building after 5 p.m.
2. If that plane had destroyed the Wisconsin state capital, we would have lost the only three people in state government who do an honest day's work.
Agreed, the plan should have been blown out of the fair before it hand a chance to endanger those three, honest, hardworking people.
You guys are brutual :-)
You all deserve a Johnsonville brat with all the trimmings.