I am sure those involved would have said the same thing about Nazi Germans marching down Main Street in their town, back in the 1940s. May God have mercy on their empty shells of what used to be souls.
rickn8or gets a “heh.” At the Big Govt Bldg safety meeting where we discussed new security (you could tell we were working on it: all the doors were propped open), I dead-panned “Yesterday I piloted a B-17 over this facility at 3000 feet with the bomb bay doors open.”
Eyes got wide. My buddy from maintenance, also an EAA skulker, did his best Little-Guy-from-O-Brother take on “He ain’t lyin!”
They had laid off the guards 20 years earlier because, End of History. In the high-value cage, our clerk had to keep the Airweight in one safe and the ammo in the other. He’d been a tanker under Patton.
November 12th, 2014 at 2:35 pm
I am sure those involved would have said the same thing about Nazi Germans marching down Main Street in their town, back in the 1940s. May God have mercy on their empty shells of what used to be souls.
November 12th, 2014 at 7:35 pm
Common attitude. In my Navy days, I was trusted with and around nukes, crypto equipment and keylists.
Since retirement, I can’t be trusted with a handgun in the base commissary.
November 13th, 2014 at 9:14 am
rickn8or gets a “heh.” At the Big Govt Bldg safety meeting where we discussed new security (you could tell we were working on it: all the doors were propped open), I dead-panned “Yesterday I piloted a B-17 over this facility at 3000 feet with the bomb bay doors open.”
Eyes got wide. My buddy from maintenance, also an EAA skulker, did his best Little-Guy-from-O-Brother take on “He ain’t lyin!”
They had laid off the guards 20 years earlier because, End of History. In the high-value cage, our clerk had to keep the Airweight in one safe and the ammo in the other. He’d been a tanker under Patton.