I can assure you guys of one thing - while i would have bust a bollock to ensure there was no physical contact between my aircraft and this fools, there WOULD most certainly have been physical contact with my steel toecap and this idiots temple and spine later.
Their simply is no excuse whatsoever for this sort of cavalier attitude to another aviators life. Simple as that. Endex.
In my experience it's usualy always pointless trying to have stern words with these sort of people, "they always know best, have always done it as so, it's there home field" and so on and so on...
A good shoeing always stays in the memory however. Not pleasant medicine to dispense, ever, but sadly sometimes needed.