RE: combat with hawk
I knew a guy who was actually tried and convicted in another country for chasing migratory birds with his RC plane. It was horrible! Life in the prison was unbearably brutal, and the American embassy there basically ignored his family's pleas to intervene...
Oh wait, I didn't know the guy, I was thinking of the movie "Midnight Express" and the guy was arrested for smuggling hash instead of chasing birds with an RC airplane...
...never mind!