Shiver Me Timbers wrote:
Imagine putting this on an insurance claim...


Two hunters shot a wild goat



An aircraft owner discovered his polished aluminum Cessna



Another aircraft owner discovered his aircraft


More More More...... We want more

Hey... Many years ago a friend of mine killed a cow when his RC
airplane flew out of range, over a hill on a farmers field, and hit
the cow square on the head.

They went to the farmers house to tell him the bad news and it took
a few moments for the farmer to realize it wasn't a real plane that
had crashed into his cow but a model weighing about six pounds.

Anyone remember the FLYING magazine article from many many years
ago about the group that were dropping live cats out of airplanes at
local flyins.

This was a hoax. There was a book by Larry Schatz called "Bedtime
Stories for Skydivers". One of the stories was "The Man Who Loved Cat
Chasing".

In addition to that story, several years ago, an Atlanta talk show host
created a fictitious event called "Cat Chasing Championships of 1988".
The "event" was well planned out with promos that aired days in advance,
just to give it credibility. The pre event hype even quoted fictitious
scientific evidence that cats could safely fall out of NY city high
rises and safely land on their feet as long as they were low enough or
high enough. The phony scientific evidence claimed that there was a
supposed "dead zone" between 2 and 5 floors of height. Below that, the
cat was low enough to prevent injury and higher than that the cat would
have enough time to stabilize with feet spread and the drag would slow
down their terminal velocity. This phony study was supposedly as a
result of cat owners in NY city reporting various cat "fallings" that
resulted in death or life. One astute scientist noticed this supposed
dead zone.

Now back to the "event". As a result of the study, there was this
fictitious event where skydivers would throw a cat out the plane and the
skydivers would compete to see who could catch the cat. There was even
a phony history of the danger in that one skydiver caught the cat, but
didn't have a good grip on him. The cat crawled to the back, clamped his
claws on the chute, and prevented the chute from opening. The
fictitious skydiver died, but the cat lived.

On the day of the event, the event took place in the studio complete
with sound effects and interviews with local event participants.

Angry local animal rights advocates called the local officials demanding
that it should be stopped, and the local officials had no knowledge of
any cat chasing event. Some of the advocates showed up to an empty airport.