Mailman arrested after landing a gyrocopter on the Capitol lawn.
tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/ruskin-m...
tampabay.comPosted Apr 15, 2015, 5:44 PM UTC
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tampabay.comWell, the 1st Amendment's right "to petition the Government for redress of grievances" necessarily trumps 91.133, right?
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This is where our 100% transparent government conducts business.
Can I see it?
No, go away!
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From the article:
"Richard Burns, 27, who said he works for a marijuana lobby group in Washington, stood in wonder and solidarity.
"I don't know whatever it was he was doing but I support him."
What a waste.
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"I don't know whatever it was he was doing but I support him."
That's the best line in the entire article.
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I love the video at the bottom of the Washington post article. he does not sound like a crazy nut job at all, he is trying to make a statement about campaign finance. What a great thing to make a statement about.
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Exactly! When I first heard about it, I assumed he was just another whackjob angry about Obama being a muslim marxist or the homosexual hidden agenda or something. But his website:
http://thedemocracyclub.org/?p=28
shows that he's really a pretty rational guy upset about a real issue. Hell, he even claims to have told them he was coming.
I totally agree with his message, and I enjoy a good act of civil disobedience. Shame he's probably going to be labelled a terrorist and thrown in jail for a while.
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Yea I feel like it is becoming very dangerous how Terrorism charges are thrown around these days. It's starting to become a charge that you can apply to anything. It's starting to become like thought police. Did he want to hurt America? Than he is a terrorist.
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Here's a video of him flying in. Nice approach: https://youtu.be/giv8wy-9lEI
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"He could have gone straight into the capitol building!"
Yeah, and done what - scratched the stones with his flying bicycle?
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All hoops we have to jump through to fly in the FRZ, and some guy goes and lands in P-56. I really hope they don't restrict this area even more.
http://wtop.com/dc/2015/04/capitol-police-arrest-person-who-landed-small-aircraft-near-white-house/
Edit: added local news link.
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After all, the prohibited area was so effective in stopping this guy...
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Well in all honesty what the hell more can they do. I'm sure that thing was too small for the Patriot missile batteries, but I know snipers like to hit moving targets.
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My thoughts as well.
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More from the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/04/15/a-gyrocopter-just-landed-on-the-capitol-lawn/
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god this video is great
These guys are just having a great time not the freaked out crap you usually see
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Holy moly. I hope I have that much balls when I'm that old.
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No kidding. A lot of people hit the apex of excitement in their lives during their high school or college years. This dude just did it at 61. Bravo.
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I wonder what they are going to do with the gyrocopter? Will it end up on one of those government auction sites?
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Good question...I could see it ending up in a museum.
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That would be great. The guy has a great message (campaign finance reform), and form the video interview the Tampa Bay times did it sounds like he has his head on strait(Ignoring the fact he flew into DC that is pretty crazy). He didn't just fly it up there, he did a lot of planning, and it sounds like he did his best to alert authorities of his plans, kind of amazing no one stopped him.
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He even painted a USPS logo and paint scheme on the gyrocopter too: http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ap_helicopter_2_kb_150415_4x3_992.jpg :)
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I guess he didn't really like flying that much, since he's never going to get to fly again.
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He's under FAR 103 doesn't have a license to take away or need one to go flying again.
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FAR 103 cancelled in 3....2....1....
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Not going to happen / they're leaning more towards it with the sports pilots license.
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Well, he got peoples' attention. I think he needs to verbalize exactly what the point of the whole thing is, though. OK, campaign finance reform. What does he want exactly?
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He wants President Romney to resign, because he bought the election. (And California Governor Meg Whitman, too.)
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 97%. (I'm a bot)
UPDATE 1:15 p.m.: The Tampa Bay Times called the U.S. Secret Service in Washington D.C. to see if they were aware of Hughes' plans.
Two days later, Hughes said, the same agent showed up at the post office where Hughes works and asked more questions.
Hughes likes to point out that nearly half the retiring members of Congress from 1998 to 2004 got jobs as lobbyists earning some 14 times their congressional salaries.
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What an asshole.
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A disgruntled mailman? Now I've seen everything...
I don't think it's that rare.. with all the cuts USPS have been making?
That's the joke... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal
WOOSH. Sorry dude! haha
Haha, no worries.