Friday, October 8, 2010

Keystone Cops, ctd.

The Captain hopes Osama bin Laden is not a regular reader of Daily Downers as he'd hate to alert him to a soft target. 

As the chopper hovered low over trees at the show in Aachen, Germany, the powerful downdraught caused by the rotors snapped off heavy branches which plunged 30 feet onto the audience.

Three children and three adults needed hospital treatment after the failed stunt, admitted a red-faced police spokesman.

"They were supposed to be showing us how quickly they could abseil down a rope in a terrorist situation. But when they landed, there was chaos down there with people running everywhere and huge chunks of tree dropping out of the sky."
[Daily Star]

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