>A hang-gliding heroin smuggler has been shot down by soldiers over the border >between >Afghanistan and Tajikistan, one of the world's busiest drug >trafficking frontiers.
Actually this one is taken from a very funny, but not true, hang gliding story from the '70s where a slightly thick hang glider pilot flying near the Mexican border talks to some shady character about gliding and the load carrying capacity of the glider. He says that if the glider was made from some fancy carbon boron material (sic) then the load carrying capacity would be much higher. The shady character is very interested and offers to shout the hangie some new spars in carbon. The shady character's techs put the glider together before the launch. The pilot jumps of the ridge (again near the border) and heads north. In a rowdy thermal, one of the end caps comes off a leading edge and as the pilot cores the thermal he gets more and more elated about the performance of the glider.... and so on. Guess it was coke he was smuggling or he would have passed out in the thermal instead of getting high. Google the Private Eye story about gerbils for a really funny urban myth. And avoid the www.haaretz.com site like the plague unless you really like neo-nazi propaganda. D _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
