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You know, I've felt sorry for her since this all kicked off. I'm sure it all seemed to be an innocent enough thing to do, and she might not have been clear on the whole driving on a runway thing. When I was a kid we used to do 360's in our local mall parking lot after it had rained and the stores had shut down. You know, go real fast, hit the water and yank the steering wheel. As long as you are driving a fairly low slung car (I had an old 64 1/2 mustang) you're just fine. I kept thinking of it that way.
But...She's a grown woman. Her occupation is to take a high performance aircraft and do things with it that require every bit of skill and strength and reaction speed she has to avoid killing herself, and possible people in the audience. And this lady climbed in a car9knowing full well that two tons of metal don't stop if you make a mistake) and got drunk and drove her friends around that way.
And then I remember that my first wife died in a DUI. And both of my mother's parents were killed by a drunk who T-boned them. And I think, "If she was stupid enough to do what she did...maybe she shouldn't be allowed to get behind the stick of an aircraft either," I'm not saying she shouldn't, just that she has shown a lack of judgment that needs to be considered at this point. This isn't a vindictiveness, I'm just not sure I want her doing what she does without someone competent making the looking at the matter.
As for the police who pulled her: I was once dragged by the hair out a car window by a cop. I was asleep in my friends car, in the back seat, when he did an illegal Uturn. When the cop walked up and saw me asleep it pissed him off somehow, and so he turned ugly. He reached in the car window, grabbed my hair and literally pulled me kicking and screaming and punching at the air to make whoever it was let go. Then he charged me with assaulting a police officer. Welcome to the City of New Orleans. Luckily for me, this was after they'd put video cams in cruisers, so he ended up being fired for it.
But I have never since met a cop that I trusted. You can claim to be a decent upstanding and moral officer of the law all you want. I'm sorry if this offends, but in my book all cops are s**tbags until proved otherwise, and then only to a limited extent.
I by experience will never give all my trust to any man carrying a firearm. For a multitude of reasons, when you put a gun in a mans hand everything about him changes from personality to threat level to the simple fact that accidents happen, and around guns, those accidents can be tragic and permanent. I do not care how much training you have and how awesome you think you are. In fact, the mo betta an opinion you have of your gun handling ability, the less I am going to trust you. Heck, I don't trust myself with a gun in my hand. Why would I trust somebody else?
Back to cops:
Spooky, I am not saying they are crooked, but unless you were there, you just can't know: I have friends who are police, and they're great guys. Out of uniform. In uniform, I'll trust them about as far as they can reliably hit me with a 9mm.
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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."
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