Criminal of the Week - Model Airplane Drops Nails on Highway for Tire Company Owner
Okay so, one of my favorite pastimes is to go to Starbucks and sit out on the patio and talk to the locals.
No matter where I travel the country I like to do this, and the other day I was at the Beverly Hills California Starbucks right down the street from Century City.
It's the Starbucks which occupies the old "Wilson House of Suede" building.
Anyway, I had the most interesting conversation with a homeless gentleman.
He asked me what I did for a living, and I am retired, but I do run a think tank which happens to operate online.
We began talking about different technologies that we've been involved with such as unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, and MAVs or micro air vehicles.
He said; "do you mean like model airplanes too?" "Yes," I replied, especially when we are making the prototypes to test and see if our designs are even viable, and usually unfortunately, they aren't.
Most of our designs do crash and burn, but that's okay because the ones that do succeed are actually worth something to the industry.
As we began to talk about the need for small model airplane sized unmanned aerial vehicles in the battlespace to support our troops and give them important information, as well as drop small munitions on the enemy, he decided that we should design a model airplane which drops nails on the highway.
This would mean people would get a flat tire, and since he used to work in the towing business, it would give towing operators more work, and it would help a local tire companies.
He insisted that the local tire companies which would be repairing all the flat tires would be willing to pay a stipend for such a service.
In other words they would pay someone to fly a model airplane along the road and drop nails onto the road so people would get flat tires, not far from the tire shop.
His theory was that it would keep the tire shop busy all day, and it would also keep the tow company busy towing people's cars into the tire store if they called the automobile club card that they had.
Well, I can see why this gentleman is homeless, and it just proves that he could win the award for criminal mind of the week.
I'm not sure if there are such awards, but if there are, and you know about them, I hope you will please send me an e-mail so I can nominate this gentleman.
You have to admit, he's creative? Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
No matter where I travel the country I like to do this, and the other day I was at the Beverly Hills California Starbucks right down the street from Century City.
It's the Starbucks which occupies the old "Wilson House of Suede" building.
Anyway, I had the most interesting conversation with a homeless gentleman.
He asked me what I did for a living, and I am retired, but I do run a think tank which happens to operate online.
We began talking about different technologies that we've been involved with such as unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, and MAVs or micro air vehicles.
He said; "do you mean like model airplanes too?" "Yes," I replied, especially when we are making the prototypes to test and see if our designs are even viable, and usually unfortunately, they aren't.
Most of our designs do crash and burn, but that's okay because the ones that do succeed are actually worth something to the industry.
As we began to talk about the need for small model airplane sized unmanned aerial vehicles in the battlespace to support our troops and give them important information, as well as drop small munitions on the enemy, he decided that we should design a model airplane which drops nails on the highway.
This would mean people would get a flat tire, and since he used to work in the towing business, it would give towing operators more work, and it would help a local tire companies.
He insisted that the local tire companies which would be repairing all the flat tires would be willing to pay a stipend for such a service.
In other words they would pay someone to fly a model airplane along the road and drop nails onto the road so people would get flat tires, not far from the tire shop.
His theory was that it would keep the tire shop busy all day, and it would also keep the tow company busy towing people's cars into the tire store if they called the automobile club card that they had.
Well, I can see why this gentleman is homeless, and it just proves that he could win the award for criminal mind of the week.
I'm not sure if there are such awards, but if there are, and you know about them, I hope you will please send me an e-mail so I can nominate this gentleman.
You have to admit, he's creative? Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
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