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Message: [Acro] FW: RE: RACE FAN SHOOTS "ANNOYING" CROP-DUSTER
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From: "Craig Craft" <cduster at inteliport.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 14:20:19 UTC
Message
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Craft [mailto:cduster at inteliport.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:24 PM
To: Chix Fly 2
Subject: RE: [Acro] RE: RACE FAN SHOOTS "ANNOYING" CROP-DUSTER
Don't yall think six months in the pokey is a little light for attempted
murder?? I know most people will say that it is more like reckless
discharge of a weapon, but put yourself at the other end of the barrel and
see how you would feel. Its a shame, but people shooting at planes isn't
uncommon at all. Steve Whitman was shot down over Alabama when a bullet
punctured his fuel tank, luckily he just ran out of gas. The operator in
the story, Wayne Slaughter, is a good friend of mine. He was actually the
second person shot at last year in this area. My neighbor (read
competition) was also fired on, but this guy wasn't quite as good a shot.
Another ag operator friend of mine in Alabama was actually shot. Four or
five bullets went through the fuselage with one ending up in an instrument
and one more in his arm. Amazingly he was shot with a pistol. The local
sheriff wouldn't even arrest the guy but when Gentry called in the FBI
things started to happen.
Craig Craft
-----Original Message-----
From: Chix Fly 2 [mailto:chixfly2 at comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:02 AM
To: acro at gf24.de
Subject: [Acro] RE: RACE FAN SHOOTS "ANNOYING" CROP-DUSTER
Sorry, Danny!
Boogity, Boogity, Boogity !!
----- Original Message -----
From: Chix Fly 2
To: acro at gf24.de
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 8:23 PM
Subject: [Acro] RE: RACE FAN SHOOTS "ANNOYING" CROP-DUSTER
As I read this thread, I think to myself....
What exactly are you listening to on a NASCAR broadcast anyway? The
intricate strategy talk by the announcers. (Yep, if Billy Jo puts his foot
down farther, he'll go faster - if he lifts - well, you know the story - he
probably won't win...). (I'd like to thank the home depot sponsors and the
tide sponsors and the viagra sponsors)
How could our "Redneck with a Gun" differentiate between airplane noise
and the "brruuummm brrruuumm" as the stock cars go around in circles for
three hours!?
Maybe someone ran out of beer!?
(sorry Hubie)
Dash
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Ashwood-Smith
To: 'Frank Gorham' ; Rasch, Hellmut ; Herman Dierks
Cc: acro at gf24.de
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 8:21 PM
Subject: [Acro] RE: RACE FAN SHOOTS "ANNOYING" CROP-DUSTER
There is an S1, parked (and has been for 10 years) at an airport near
Ottawa, that I'm told has a bullet hole in the turtle deck. I have not seen
it but I can believe it.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Gorham [mailto:frankgorham at comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 10:24 PM
To: Rasch, Hellmut; Herman Dierks
Cc: acro at gf24.de
Subject: [Acro] RE: RACE FAN SHOOTS "ANNOYING" CROP-DUSTER
Herman,
Back in the late 60's I recall a charter DC-8
operator finding a .30 caliber hole in the elevator. The plane had been
nowhere near a combat zone since its last major inspection!!!
3 hits with a .270 - hey that guy's a good shot!
Cheers, Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Rasch, Hellmut
To: Herman Dierks
Cc: acro at gf24.de
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 9:05 PM
Subject: [Acro] RE: RACE FAN SHOOTS "ANNOYING" CROP-DUSTER
Back when I used to work for the Goodyear airship operations on
the airship "America" part of the daily inspection was to look for bullet
holes and other compromises to the envelope. Amazing how many idiots would
shoot at the blimp with anything from an M-16 to a crossbow!
-----Original Message-----
From: Herman Dierks [mailto:hdierks at earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 8:50 PM
To: IAC
Subject: [Acro] RACE FAN SHOOTS "ANNOYING" CROP-DUSTER
Saw this in April 5th "Avflash"
Could easily substitute "aerobatic plane" or "stunt plane" (as
they say) for Crop-Duster when flying in your local acro box.
RACE FAN SHOOTS "ANNOYING" CROP-DUSTER
A NASCAR fan who apparently took exception to a crop-duster's
drowning
out the televised coverage of a race will spend six months in
jail for
trying to shoot down the offending aircraft. Anthony Gene Moore,
36, of
Lenoir County, N.C., was convicted of a single count of firing
into an
occupied vehicle after he hit Don Wayne Slaughter's Air Tractor
with at
least three shots from a .270 rifle. Two shots went through the
airplane's left wing and another hit the battery, causing it to
explode.
Slaughter, 53, heard the shots before he saw a man on the ground
firing
a rifle at him. He headed for a nearby airport and called
authorities.
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/218-full.html#187024
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