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Old 17th Feb 2000, 09:10
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Milligeville,Georgia,1990 a cessna 152 taxing without lights appeared suspicious to the local sheriff.The sheriff thought he had got himself one of them smugglers types,he drove his car lights on,siren on out on the runway to block the airplane unable to stop the aircraft with his car,He got out of his car just in time to have the aircraft pop into ground effect over his car.At this point he thought he was being shot at ,drew his weapon discharged two full clips at the departing aircraft.Fortunatly for the two drunk pilots the sherrif was not able to hit them.The aircraft was tracked on radar and the two pilots were arrested as they attemted to drive home from the airport.
Moral of the story use your lights!at night in Georgia.Or you could meet a fate worse than living there.