Sunday, August 29, 2010

Stupid Cops With Guns

The Santa Barbara cops held two pilots at gunpoint because a DEA contractor told them that the airplane they were flying (on an IFR flight plan, no less) was stolen.

Turns out it wasn't. Turns out that since there are only a finite number of combinations of numbers and letters for aircraft registrations, that the FAA reuses them. Turns out the DEA is too ill-informed to know that.

And it turns out that the two pilots are among the best-known pilots in the country.

Bravo for the brain-dead boys in blue!

1 comment:

  1. Hey it's the DEA, not the boys in blue in THIS instance!!!
    The real problem is CONTRACTORS...
    and even Sec Def Gates is trying to rein them in (hope he tries HARDER)

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