Homeless man charged with stealing, crashing plane

[proud2BlibKansan]

Police in Maryland say a homeless man tried to leave town in a stolen plane but crashed the single-engine aircraft on a municipal airport runway before he ever left the ground.

Fifty-one-year-old Calvin Cox faces a bond hearing Monday on charges of felony theft, burglary and trespass.

Lt. Clark Pennington says a Frederick County Sheriff's Office canine team found Cox in the woods near the airport after an airport worker reported the crash of the Piper Super Cub at about 2:15 a.m. Monday.

Pennington says Cox is familiar with airplanes but not proficient in their operation.

http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/1653048.html

[vadawg]

1. lol i gotta laugh at the hes familiar with planes bit, yes he knows what a plane is

but not how to operate one, this line could mean anything from hes a qualified pilot in 747's but not this plane to he once saw a plane at an airshow...

[Historic NY]

2. Did he stay in a Holiday Inn........

last night. :rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. LOL!

[gratuitous]

4. OMG!

We have to guard the American people against the homeless! Let's make sure everyone has adequate housing to head off this scourge and danger to homeland security!

(Hey, it seems to be a serious talking point against brown people who speak a foreign language; maybe we could actually accomplish something positive from the unreasoning panic so beloved by certain segments of our society.)