Scylla--Secret Master Of Sinister Airships

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Scylla, a longtime Doper, posted this once–
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=160851&highlight=zeppelin

Scylla
Guest Join Date: Jan 2000

The horror of blimps

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Last week while travelling I stopped at a Zany Brainy store and saw that they had a blimp for sale. It’s called Airship Earth, and it’s a great big balloon with a map of the Earth on it, and two propellors hanging from the bottom. You blow up the balloon with helium put batteries in it, and you have a radio controll indoor blimp.

I’d seen these things for sale in Sharper Image catalogs for $60-$75. At Zany Brainy it was on clearance for $15. What a deal!

Last night my wife was playing tennis and it was just my daughter and I at home. I bought a small helium tank from a party store, and last night we put the blimp together.

So, I suspected a hidden hand behind this jailbreak–

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/od_nm/us_escape_odd;_ylt=AsvnUs5WLt_jRj_LbN5__Jis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFmM2I5YTBsBHBvcwMyMDQEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9vZGRfbmV3cwRzbGsDcG9saWNlZm9pbHJh

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police said on Friday they had foiled an Italian drug trafficker’s plan to break out of jail in the Canary Islands using climbing equipment and a four-meter-long zeppelin.

“The plan consisted of using a remotely controlled zeppelin to bring him night-vision goggles and climbing equipment with which to escape,” a National Police statement said.

The FIEND!! We have been nuturing a Napoleon of Crime among us!!