Thursday 6 August 2009

Plane dead

I can understand the motivation, in a detached sense of the word, behind, say, throwing eggs at people, rocks at trains, water bombs at people. But there are some things about the trade that seem... unreasonable.

I suppose it's natural for people to want to work up and get promoted no matter the industry. So in this one it may be reasonable to expect one to start small, eggs at passerbys at Halloween or so. Then the opportunity to work up presents itself over time; water bombs, eggs and name calling thrown not only at Halloween, and you grasp at it with quick fists.

A managerial position opens after a few years. Throwing rocks at trains is required. Dropping stones on cars is optional, but encouraged. You don't really have the qualifications and experience required but you tentatively try to bluff in your CV.

After a few years a national position opens and requires an industrious change in direction to the previously banal and predictable course. Lasers and airplanes, are what people came up. And this I absolutely don't understand.

Apparatus:
  • Laser
  • Passing airplane

Method:
  • Shine laser in eyes of pilot

Results:
  • Well... read on

All of these previous 'pranks' have one thing in common -- they're looking for a reaction. The only reaction that I can come up with for shining lasers in the eyes of pilots is illustrated in the two photographs below...



If this were to happen I'd love to be a fly on the wall to see the reaction of the attackers.

Maybe I have swine flu?