.............and a good joke at that!!!
Jay wrote:
> China Blames U. S. for Yet Another Mid-Air Collision
>
> BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese officials have stated that
> they are holding the United States, "fully responsible"
> for today's mid-air collision, involving several Chinese
> aircraft and one American craft. This comes just weeks
> after a similar incident involving a U. S. spy plane.
>
> Officials have stated that at approximately 8:25 a. m.,
> GMT, a squadron of Chinese F-8 fighters collided with
> an American Goodyear Blimp. The crash left over a dozen
> Chinese planes downed and the blimp's electronic
> billboard damaged. Sources say the billboard's scrolling
> marquee had been advertising the soft drink 7-UP, but after
> the collision, only the words "Up yours" could be seen.
>
> A Chinese pilot who witnessed the collision between his
> squadron, nicknamed, "Panda Rash" told China's Xinhua
> news agency that he saw the American blimp dive out of
> the clouds and crash into wingman Sum Yung Gui's F-8 jet.
>
> "I told Yung Gui his tail was all broken. 'Keep it
> straight. Keep it straight'", said the pilot. "He just
> couldn't shake the American foreign-devil!" The blimp
> then reportedly veered hard left and then right, taking
> out the rest of the squadron.
>
> Pilot Chawp Suey told Xinhua the American blimp is "fully
> responsible for the incident", repeating the language
> Beijing has used in the earlier incident.
>
> China blames this new accident on the Goodyear blimp,
> saying it rammed the supersonic fighters, and has demanded
> an apology.
>
> Officials from the Goodyear Company have said it is
> unlikely that the slow propeller-driven blimp could turn
> inside and ram a dozen nimble fighters, unless the
> Chinese were testing chimp pilots.
>
> "The direct cause of the collision was that the
> American blimp made a sudden big move toward the Chinese
> planes, making it impossible for the Chinese planes to
> get out of the way", Suey was quoted as saying.
>
> "The savage act of American blimps colliding with
> Chinese planes while conducting spying activities at
> sporting events makes us indignant", he was quoted as
> saying.
>
> OK, OK, don't everybody get all bent outta shape- it's a JOKE, fer Christ's sake!!! :-)
>
> Jay
>
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