[Konvas] I just don't believe it!!!

[Rick Garbutt]

> From: Peter Haas <peterhaas at cruzio.com>

> 
> Hey, "JAG" bought a Tomcat under similar circumstances, and utilized
> it as a prop throughout TEN seasons of that program without anyone
> from the DOD giving a rats a$$.
> 
> Then, after the show closed in 2005, they siezed the Tomcat because
> it was discovered to be almost complete as to avionics (but absent
> its engines), and those avionics could have been used to assist
> Iran's presently unusable Tomcats, should that very Tomcat be resold
> to Iran, or one of its many "operatives".
> 

O brave new world, that has such wonders in it.

Maybe I've just gotten jaded about the potential fun in military "surplus."
(Bit this one still smells funny to me...)

I'm still aghast at the recent (less than 5 days) news item about a gun show
in the eastern US where a supposed "instructor" put into the hands of an
8-year-old boy an UZI ferchr***sakes, and told him, "just squeeze the
trigger."

A LOADED USI, in the hands of an 8-year-old.*

Muzzle bucked up with the first round fired, and the second round entered
the boy's brain, with predictable results.

Words fail me to describe the magnitude of this stupidity.

Maybe there IS a field of MIGs just itching to be sold on eBay.  I very
sincerely hope not.

Best to all,
Rick Garbutt, soc

PS:  so whose A** at the DOD was rendered onto a platter for letting a
Tomcat out as a prop with fully functional avionics?  I dunno:  if I was a
hanging judge, I'd call that an act of treason by way of negligence.  Just
go with the nice gentleman, and stand next to that brick wall, would you?

(And, yes, I've seen the news photos of 6-year-old children in the middle
east, toting weaponry that looks very scary.  Maybe the Darwin Awards
entrant level is going to experience a sharp spike...)