You gotta love the media.....

[captain]

Now I'm no expert but I read the updates this afternoon about the student that stole the Cessna 172 from Canada and flew it across the border to the US. The student apparently landed the plane on a HWY in Missouri with an escort of two F-16's and a border patrol plane....

Now here is where it get's good.

Here are a few images that I found on the Internet and the original image used on ABC news online.

Here is what a Cessna 172 looks like...







Here is the original artwork on the ABC website......


Here is the new link after he lands......


Is it me or is this just a great example of how things are blown out of proportion by the media....

CAp

 

[SAMBUSA]

Love how the media reports train/car accidents. They like to make it look like we should've swerved.

 

[VaBusa]

It's just you Doug...come join the lemmings, don't be afraid

 

[Scar]

It's high drama, that's for sure!

Must have been a particularly slow news day...

All they would have had to add were a couple of these ==> and the story would have been complete!

 

[VaBusa]

 

[Scar]

Wow!

 

[VaBusa]

Wow!

That's pretty much it...the media loves the bad stuff, and when they find little Susie that's been missing, it's barely a blip on the radar...they live for embellishing a story, glorifying the bad...

It's kind of funny really...learn to take it with a grain of salt :oldcool:

 

[Fastfrog007]

I heard that the cesna shot down the F-16's

 

[ibified]

lol VA....if only more media types would kurt cobain themselves like that....

 

[O Holy P]

Hey Cap, that last 172 looks to be a L model...the first one is a SP and the 2nd is a R model....NOT the same, c'mon.

 

[dadofthree]

15 Days Cap and everything will be right with the world

 

[captain]

that last 172 looks to be a L model...the first one is a SP and the 2nd is a R model

I will pass it on to Google

 

[Hayabusa2005]

It's just you Doug...come join the lemmings, don't be afraid

 

[semi]

It's just you Doug...come join the lemmings, don't be afraid

just a little sip of the kool-aid and everything will be fine...c'mon, you can trust me :semi:

 

[Robot]

My conspiracy sources say, it was a test of U.S. airspace. "Manchurian Canidate" style

 

[MO-BUSA]

it was a UFO the media has it all wrong....

 

[AJAY]

Cracks me up. I wonder what the ops cost of the F16's was.

I did tangle with a flight of A10's over the Chesapeake Bay about a year ago.