airshow misbehaviour (ground)
Abbotsford 1993. After the day's excitement; in the beer tent. Suddenly outside is the banshee wail and double thumps of a very large jet engine trying to get the a/b lit. It's the guy with huge jet powered Mack truck at the far end of the flight line, "Rolling Thunder" I think the act was called. We all stood there beers in hand as this thing hurtled down the (narrowish) flight line at 250 knots, past, but very close to Thunderbirds, Snowbirds, Russian Knights and several dozen other expensive aircraft. As he came to a halt with the drag chute occillating in the now idling jet wash and stepped out onto the step clutching his bottle of Molson's X a stunned silence fell on the assembled watchers. The silence was broken by the Mounties on their mountain bikes shouting at us all "Hey you guys the liquor license doesn't extend outside the marquee, get back inside!!!!!!" When the magnitude of what had just been perpetrated was pointed out to him the reply was (I promise you it's true) "That's airside **** we don't deal with that"
Jobsworths don't just live in the UK
Ancient Mariner