MCSO is a joke. Well, not the department, but the sheriff. One huge publicity stunt after another. I wouldn't classify this as such...but I did hear the actual call on the radio.
The Forest Service employee saw the bags come out and went ape S#!T and "secured" the area near Needle Rock. MCSO was dispatched along with the narcotics division (they thought it was a drug run, someone blew it out of proportion and said they were in black gym bags) then proceeded to give an aircraft description...I kid you not, the description was read as: "a white airplane with the wings on top, it looked like all the markings were taken off and it had a single propeller."
Way to describe 80% of the country's training fleet.
Anyway once the narcotic division was dispatched, the fire department had shown up but was staged nearby just incase breathing problems occured. MCSO then notified the FBI and Homeland Security. An hour or so into the call, someone managed to contact the gaggle of idiots to tell them it was flour from a paintballing game.
The Forest Service employee saw the bags come out and went ape S#!T and "secured" the area near Needle Rock. MCSO was dispatched along with the narcotics division (they thought it was a drug run, someone blew it out of proportion and said they were in black gym bags) then proceeded to give an aircraft description...I kid you not, the description was read as: "a white airplane with the wings on top, it looked like all the markings were taken off and it had a single propeller."
Way to describe 80% of the country's training fleet.
Anyway once the narcotic division was dispatched, the fire department had shown up but was staged nearby just incase breathing problems occured. MCSO then notified the FBI and Homeland Security. An hour or so into the call, someone managed to contact the gaggle of idiots to tell them it was flour from a paintballing game.