Saturday 8 November 2008

Happy Landings & Other Tales

Came across this story yesterday, the pilot of a light aircraft had a stroke at 5,500 feet and went blind, kept his wits about him and radioed for help. An RAF pilot flew beside him and escorted him to one of their airfields and a safe landing – a happy outcome for something which could have ended in tragedy.

Jeremy Clarkson made an off colour provocative remark last Sunday night (no real surprise there, it's what he does) about lorry drivers murdering prostitutes and 500 people complain, an MP calls for him to be sacked. A more reasonable response came from a Glasgow based games company which released a game where Jeremy can be run over by trucks while collecting license players cash – fun for all the family.

There is a link available to play the game on the news page.

Meantime in Malaysia a blogger has been released after spending 8 weeks in prison under some very dubious legislation – 2 years without trial under some “Internal Security Act”; just the sort of blanket power our government would love to get put in place here.

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