Ned Flanders wrote:
> ....Kafka is alive and living in Texas....
>
> British pilot who 'buzzed' Bush ranch to be deported
>
> By James Macintyre
> Wednesday, 7 May 2008
>
> A British amateur pilot on a round-the-world flight faces being
> deported from the US after he landed near George Bush's ranch in
> Texas, where he had wanted to thank the President for his earlier
> rescue by the US Coast Guard.
>
> Maurice Kirk, 63, who is nicknamed the "Flying Vet", was rescued from
> sharks in February when his Piper Cub light aircraft went down on the
> Caribbean leg of his trip.
>
> Mr Kirk, from south Wales, was arrested on Saturday as he tried to pin
> a thank-you note to the President's front gate. He was taken in
> handcuffs to a psychiatric hospital in Austin, the capital of Texas.
Anyone expressing gratitude to Bush for ANYTHING must definitely be a
mental case! ;-) |