Waaaah!
Seriously, is this all the Brits do these days? Whine? Neighbors are whining mightily about a birthday party - held with permission from local government and with prior notification to all the neighbors. Charles Burnett III, held his party on his own estate. The party included flybys by aircraft, a mock battle and pyrotechnics. In other words, it sounds like noisy fun - and it was used as a fundraiser for charity, netting £27,000 for Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal. Enter the whiners:
The day’s events included air displays by a two-seater Harvard fighter that swooped over Portmore as pyrotechnicians set off mock bombs in the 95-acre parkland in front of his Newtown Park country pile. A 1930s de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane and a Russian Yakovlev Yak18 roared overhead performing flypasts. The grounds of the estate were transformed into a battlezone as 20 off-duty soldiers from the Royal Logistics Corps reenacted skirmishes from the Falklands conflict, with blank-firing rifles.
The centrepiece of the event – entitled “military transport through history” by the host, who was also marking the 25th anniversary of the Falklands conflict – involved some of his cherished collection of amphibious and armoured vehicles…….
……Pamela Watson, 75, said: “The planes were swooping in so low and I was very frightened because they were incredibly noisy, roaring overhead.
“There were loud explosions as well, which shook the windows in my kitchen. It sounded like there was a war going on and I had to stay indoors.”
Althea Ayre, a widow in her eighties, said: “There were lots of people going about in camouflage and tanks driving around – it was very frightening. I lived through the Second World War and I have painful memories of that time.”
This is all over the British press right now, incidentally, not just in the Telegraph. Personally, I'd remind the whiners that Burnett owns his own tanks. But they'd whine about that, too.
World news | Gaius Saturday, 9 June , 2007
By NortonPete, Saturday, 9 June , 2007 @ 10:04 am
An old Texas saying comes to mind.
“Some people would complain if you hung them with a new rope”.
By skh.pcola, Saturday, 9 June , 2007 @ 12:28 pm
That guy sounds like a neighbor that I would love living next to. The Brits have become sniveling idiots.
By Chris, Saturday, 9 June , 2007 @ 3:02 pm
Those memories of the German invasion of England must be harrowing. Maybe the prop wash disheveled their perms.