"Shirley" wrote in message ...
"James M. Knox" wrote:

a construction forklift with a whopping big
load of steel in the forks had tried to take
a shortcut.

Saw a rental 172 at a local airport with the tip of one wing in shreds. Was
told the garbage truck, making its weekly pick-up on the field, got too close
and sheered the tip of the wing off, then the driver said that the *plane*
wasn't where he expected it to be. I guess!

One day I came out to HEF for an early morning rental and there was carnage
on the ramp. Oddly it was confined to the portion of the ramp closest to
the fence...obviously not someone who crashed off the runway or something.
Turns out a bunch of guys got liquored up (owing to the large amount of empties
found in and around) and got into a King Air and managed to get one engine
fired up. The thing taxied around in a circle chewing up a number of planes.
It's amazing what a prop will do the side of a Lance.

Of course, a renter taxied my Navion into a Comanche once (he was trying to
avoid hitting a Lear, I guess that almost makes sense). The tip tank rode up
and over the cowling of the Comanche, making a tip tank shaped grove in the
cowling. My plane would have escaped damage entirely if the prop on the
piper had been horizontal. It cut a little notch in the leading edge of my wing
just inboard of the tip tank.