Re: Help before somebody gets hurt!
Brian, feel you guy! We are all responsible for policing ourselves. Looking at the big picture, if anyone is harmed even just a ding, we lose credibility in our community. Bringing more folks into our hobby and promoting it for what it is is something we should try to do more of.
We've all done stupid things at the field. But flying glow around people at a public venue is just plain stupid. I'm assuming there was no frequency control (honor system I know, but how many soccer fields have a freq. board?)
I say things were handled well in that the idiot was asked to take it elsewhere and join a club. At that point the dip stick declared he's a rebel (a fact I dispute because of geography!!)
Max is full on right. Call the police and put a quick halt to the dare devil's stunts!! If my son was playing soccer there that day I would of had those punks in a "FULL SADLER" pretty quick. Dude, they are going to hurt somebody no question. Then who do you think in your community is going to be too keen on your AMA field?
Best thing you can do is call the police and put a quick stop to the freedom seekers. The next thing I would do is organize some of your electric crowd and talk to the parks people about you guys flying there. Show them what foam is all about and GET PERMISSION to be there. Perhaps if you use this situation as a positive, you can turn an AH SHEIT into an atta boy? Take the bull by the horns dude!
Flying park fliers and 3D foam (safely with freq. control) will not only give you a place to fly that's close, it will also no doubt bring more folks into the hobby!! Keep us in the loop! Great post bro.
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Andy, your refusal to carry a gun but hard line attitude about crime suggests the duality of man. As Nietzsche's hypothesis on existentialism would suggest, the eternal struggle is just that.
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