A woman panicked her village near Doncaster was under attack when she spotted a number of paragliders flying over her home and thought they were from Hamas
“The lab results from the brain dissection were inconclusive, but the available data has lead us to formulate a new hypothesis. This sort of anomalously delusional thinking pattern may have been effected by excessive exposure to news and social media, but further research would be required.”
You jest. But I’ve had an 8” flying saucer shot out by an idiot when I was doing some park flying. (The saucer body was a 3d printed replica of the OG Day The Earth Stood Still film,)
it was 8” on diameter. 2) it was in a park loaded with kids
Fortunately it was bird shot and no one was harmed. But still.
I just like the idea that Hamas got all the way through a plan to invade britain that required them to train for aerial operations, arrange for a plane, convincingly penetrate british airspace from another EU country and yet they couldn't figure out how to buy paragliders that weren't hot pink.
To be fair, after the attacks on 9/11 I heard a fair number of comments from people who were convinced their local high school football stadium would be a prime target for international terror rings.
"Think about it, Becky. It's Friday night and the whole town of Left Nube, Indiana will be packed in there. We're sitting ducks."
It's silly, but people project their fear locally.