No more guns. The new thing is planes.

[2muchcoffeeman]

He crash-landed in afield and is now in custody. Tupelo PD has scheduled a briefing at noon CDT.

Oy vey.

 

[goalmouth]

Aim for Scranton.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Aim for Scranton.

You misspelled “Mar-A-Lago,” sir.

 

[maumann]

Walmart? How could he not find a better Target?

 

[micropolitan guy]

He's a crazy, in the first degree.

 

[melock]

Aim for Scranton.

Actually it’s Wilkes-Barre today or according to those dopes Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Quite the flight path.

 

[User 149557]

Walmart? How could he not find a better Target?

You simultaneously need to be stopped and encouraged.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Plane registered to an aviation company. Does that mean the guy rented the plane?

 

[TigerVols]

Walmart? How could he not find a better Target?

Boo

 

[Songbird]

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Burton Gilliam, whose claim to fame was Lyle in Blazing Saddles, is still with us at 84

 

[maumann]

All joking aside, this is a very serious situation. Guy who works at a rural airport shows up before the tower opens, steals a twin engine plane that's full of fuel and knows enough to take off but not enough to land. Imagine if it had been someone with real criminal intentions, like crashing into a full football stadium at Ole Miss or Mississippi State.

As somebody said later, there's a lot of little airports around the country with little to no security when they're "closed" for business. Because of that, it doesn't take much for someone to get a very lethal weapon off the ground and aimed at something important.

 

[Batman]

All joking aside, this is a very serious situation. Guy who works at a rural airport shows up before the tower opens, steals a twin engine plane that's full of fuel and knows enough to take off but not enough to land. Imagine if it had been someone with real criminal intentions, like crashing into a full football stadium at Ole Miss or Mississippi State.

As somebody said later, there's a lot of little airports around the country with little to no security when they're "closed" for business. Because of that, it doesn't take much for someone to get a very lethal weapon off the ground and aimed at something important.

Remember when it happened at a much bigger airport (Seattle) a few years ago?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Horizon_Air_Q400_incident

 

[goalmouth]

In the Fifties a drunk guy at a Manhattan bar on a bet stole a plane in New Jersey and landed it on the street in downtown Manhattan later that night. Later, he did it again.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust