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[link=http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=4677303&nav=0RbQ]Man gets probation for shooting at remote-controlled planes[/link]

carwood444

The guy screwed up. He should have used a shoulder launched stinger. It would have destroyed all the evidence. No plane no proof he shot it down.

I am sure glad I don't live next door to that guy. Him and me would have some serious problems about the time he shot down one of my planes with a shot gun.

Worse part of this he did it to a kid.

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I agree! Poor kid!

Cyclic Hardover

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I'd pay big money to see a goat faint! I wouldn't worry about the poor kid, now he gets to work on his "second plane."

$150 plane eh? I think they need a few 40% in the hood. Not only will they scare the children and spook the chickens, but can you imagine the wife?[>:][:@]

Stickbuilder

I'll bet the Goats really didn't faint. They were probably faking it so he wouldn't molest them. (kinda like the wife getting a headache)

Good old Michigan...Where the men are men and the sheep ... errrrr Goats are nervous.

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The guy should of did some time and had a bigger fine for being the jerk he was! I'm all for having guns. But shooting down some poor kid plane with out trying to reason with the kid or his family is just plane wrong. Make me sick, the kid may be sacred away forever now.[:@]

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A similar situation happened to me at our club field when the next door neighbor had her "caretaker" shoot at my plane with a 20 gauge. Fortunately he was a really bad shot. The difference here is that out local constabulary was either lazy or too stupid to understand a crime had been comitted, even after I told them the code section violated. They just laughed about it and walked away. It got a lot, lot worse later...

Glad to see that shooter got slapped.

Ken Erickson

BalsaBandit and Cyclic Hardover,

This is off the topic, but it is in the Clubhouse.

A female training executive (no, she was a female, not someone who trained them. But who can?) I worked with a couple of years ago lived on a "ranch" near Blanco, TX. She raised horses and FAINTING GOATS. The goats would drop over in a faint at the slightest agitation. She told us that the horses got such a kick out of it that they would charge toward the goat pasture just to see the things fall over.

I lived in Indianapolis at the time. Wish I could remember her name. I also would like to see that.

Ken, AMA 19352

Grampaw

I know of two incidents that could have resulted in Murder charges against nuts with guns who shoot at flying things. A member of our club bought an Ultralite several years ago, and taught himself to fly it. He'd fly it over the farm fields and talk to the guys on the tractors and combines via a CB radio he installed on his Quicksilver. The farmers had CBs on the tractors and combines too. One afternoon he was on his way to see who was working and as he crossed a tree line headed towards a field he looked down and saw two guys with shotguns taking aim at him! He did some wild gyrations and got back across the tree line before they fired. He was close enough to be able to recognize them, but he didn't know them. Let me tell you, he was one frazzled mess when he landed back on his home strip! Never happened again though he sold the Quicksliver shortly afterwards and went back to R/C planes!.

Another incident concerned an Ag Pilot friend of mine, a WWII Air Force vet from the ETO who had flown everything from Mustangs to bombers in combat. Had many dog fights, shot at by flak and ground fire. Never wounded or lost a plane. Along about the late 50's he retired and started flying Ag Cats. One day returning to his home base to refuel, he taxied up to the pump, set the brake, unhooked his seat belt and while glancing down at the belt caught a glint of something bright down between his feet. Curious, he bent over and found a little hole in the cockpit floor that didn't belong there! While mulling it over, he reached up for the top hatch release and found another hole up in the green tinted plexiglass! He called the Mechanic up on the wing and they checked out the holes. The two holes were the same size and when the mechanic, laying on the ground under the Ag Cat checking out the hole in the floor, he could line them up. Deciding they were bullet holes from Ground Fire they called the Sheriff who sent an Investigator out. The Sheriff also sent a car to the field the pilot had been working but they found no hunters, or anyone with a high powered rifle. Later using a slim steel rod from the hangar, and sliding it down through the cockpit canopy hole and out the bottom hole while my buddy sat in his seat as if flying. The rod showed the path of the bullet coming from below as it went up between his feet, missing his legs, his arm on the control stick, and barely missing the visor on his helmet to exit though the tinted top hatch. Needless to say he was a bit uneasy for a few days. It points out however, give some idiots a shotgun or rifle and they just have to shoot at something or somebody. Idiots!

Stickbuilder

Yes, I grew up in Tennessee, and I too have seen, "Fainting" goats. They do, in fact, exist, and are not at all uncommon. Bur it was more fun to run the reason for their fainting out as I did

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We had an event at our club once where they charged people with paint ball guns to take shots at spads and old beaters. I didn't go but I understand it went well and they raised a little money for the club.

Cyclic Hardover

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SPADBALL!

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Wow, That was true. Fainting Goats. So if they get a little frightened they just may pass out? LOL Not real tough buggers are they? I thoght they were a little more hardy?! LOL

Cyclic Hardover

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So much for the "head butting" contest. They just step off 10 paces, turn around and pass out!

Diablo-RCU

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Aw shucks, if the shooter was Dick Cheney, the kid would have to apologize on national TV for getting the plane in his way.......

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ahh, but it was not.

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[link=http://www.hoofweb.com/greenvalley/]Fainting Goats[/link]

Hey check this out!!!!!!!

It's all over the internet in epidemic proportions. Just google fainting goats.


I'll have to check and see if there are any goat ranches\farms near our club field.

tailskid

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Amazing, just amazing.....

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Don't scream "time to eat!!" to them when they don't know it's coming.

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No wonder goats are domestic animals. If they did this in the wild the predators would eat them. Maybe mountain lions don't have to do anything but walk up behind them and go boo! Maybe the RC community needs to be more sensitive to goats.

Ron Olson

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What got me is that the person should have been slapped with a firearms violation as we have some strict laws here. Secondly, it is a FEDERAL offense to shoot at ANY aircraft, full-sized or radio-controlled. I guess that scaring the crap out of the kids didn't mean anything. If he had a problem ,then he should have called the cops instead of taking the law into his own hands.
Chelsea isn't a big city but still not a hick town.

frankcnb

Just had to comment on the shooting at spads with paintball gun.
We did the same thing at a club fly in to raise a little extra money. The spad got hit several times with no effect on the plane. When it came time for me to shoot, i kidded the owner of the spad that I was going to shoot the switch. On my 5th shot the the one flying the plane hollered, "I do not have it". The plane went in full power between two guys, barely missing one of them. On inspection of the plane, guess, what; the paint ball had hit the switch.

We learned a lesson.
Frank

scottrc

I have some kids in the neighorhood that are a nuisance, scare my kids, chase my chickens, and cause my cat to lose its hair, can I shoot them?

That a-hole got what he deserved and nothing less. They should have taken the guns away from him.

Scott

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Where in the article did it say he had not tried to reason with the family?

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I'm just going on what the article tells me.