jmm346
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From what I saw on another forum I think they had a RadarBox or SBS with them.>. . .intercepting conversations between ATC and pilots with the help of sophisticated gadgets,<
Wow! Sophisticated gadgets! Maybe it was that 1965 GE All Band manual tune radio they had! New thing you know they will outlaw eating beef!
If we're the only two here who got this, we may be getting old."Stephen Hampston (46) and Steve Martin (55) were detained . . . . . "
Two Wild and Crazy Guys!!!!!!!!!!
LOL, I got a laugh out of that to.>. . .intercepting conversations between ATC and pilots with the help of sophisticated gadgets,<
Wow! Sophisticated gadgets! Maybe it was that 1965 GE All Band manual tune radio they had! New thing you know they will outlaw eating beef!
If there would have been another arrested, would they have been The Three Amigos?:lol:If we're the only two here who got this, we may be getting old.
Thankfully political intervention ruled the day and some common sense prevailed.Two British plane spotters arrested in India have been released without charge, the Foreign Office said.
Stephen Hampton and Steven Ayres, from Bristol, were arrested on Monday 15 February on suspicion on monitoring flights at Delhi International Airport.
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spokeswoman said both had been held in an immigration centre in New Delhi.
The FCO was told on Saturday afternoon that the men had been been released and the case was closed.
Mr Hampton, a railway worker from Keynsham, and Mr Ayres, from St George, sparked suspicion after asking a Delhi hotel for a room overlooking a runway.
They were carrying an air traffic control scanner, laptop, binoculars and cameras.
Mr Hampton's mother Eileen **** said he had travelled all over the world photographing aircraft.
Dan Norris, MP for North East Somerset, had been liaising with the FCO to try to bring them home.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/8525945.stm
A likely story indeed.the two are said to have claimed that surveying airports was only a hobby...
Kinda makes me think of the three bush boys. Dumb, dumber & dumbestI've had the FBI come to my work place to ask me WHY I was at ATL taking so many pictures of airplanes. I affectionately called them Dumber and Dumberer!
Ahhh, what's wrong with this picture? 9/11 marked the worst terrorist attack on your soil in US history. It involved 4 hijacked commercial planes. If I was a US citizen "Dumb and Dummer" would be the FBI officials who decided to turn a blind eye and do nothing. They where simply doing there job, and you should be thankful. How would you feel if another terrorist attack occurred on your soil that involved commercial aircraft. And it was discovered that the terrorists involved were seen prior to the attack taking photographs of planes and possibly the airport installation, and that FBI agents who who witnessed this failed to follow up? Your citizens would probably be, understandably, outraged. 9/11 has changed our world, and rightfully so.I've had the FBI come to my work place to ask me WHY I was at ATL taking so many pictures of airplanes. I affectionately called them Dumber and Dumberer!
So the FBI should be investigating every person who shows an interest (and takes photos) of airplanes at every airport in the US because terrorists have been known to do that? So the FBI should also investigate every automobile driver since terrorists have been know to drive cars, right?They where (sic) simply doing there (sic) job, and you should be thankful.
:roll:Kinda makes me think of the three bush boys. Dumb, dumber & dumbest