Yet, residents of Onondaga County pay higher taxes than in almost any other county in the US (when the state and local takes are considered). Now I know what I'm getting for my money!
BTW, thanks to all who've commented so far.
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I'm not sure I'd even trust them with a nightstick!
Sorry fellas. The story I related about the Air Force guard who shot out the tire of the weather/recon plane in post #42, resulting in the crushing of a 3.5 million dollar underwing radar pod has a postscript. After that little faux pas, said to have been the most expensive accidental discharge not resulting in personal injury up to the time it had happened [late 1970s] the USAF ramp guards had their handguns taken away, and were replaced with clubs made from sawed-off mop and shovel handles.
Some time thereafter, the crew of one of the planes that had just returned from a weather flight was met by the bases *ramrod* flight line maintenance officer, who commented on the rough weather and hail the crew must have experienced.
Confused, they told him it had been a beautiful, perfect-weather flight, with not the slightest rough weather. He took the plane's commander and flight engineer to the aircraft, where he showed them a series of nasty ¾-inch dents along the wing's leading edge, on both sides of the aircraft- it couldn't have been a bird strike....
About that time, one of the Security Police guards walked by, tapping his little stick along the side of the mainttenance van in his best Gene Krupa imitation as he passed. The maintenance officer borrowed it from him and held it against the damaged area: perfect fit....
So then they took the sticks away too. They had mace and whistles, last I'd heard....
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