Curious pax,
There is a big difference between a premeditated action – flying in a no-fly zone – and an idle comment made on the spur of the moment. My point was that the cop was just letting off a little steam (in a misguided sense) and he probably regretted it almost as quickly.
We all say things that we regret a little later and I feel that in this instance the outcome was an over-reaction. The more level headed replies from the likes of ‘harpy’ and ‘Max Continuous’ support this. And after all the issue has been further blown up by the media who would no doubt like to have a traffic cop on toast!