Say, did you hear about yesterday’s pants-shitting evacuation in Washington D.C.? Yeah, well: PA guys. Lancaster, actually.

Jim Sheaffer set out from Lancaster’s Smoketown Airport today with a new map and a student pilot in a two-seater Cessna, bound for a fun-filled weekend.
They took off at 10:58 a.m., flying south to an air show in Lumberton, N.C.
Just 58 minutes later, the first Black Hawk helicopter pulled alongside.
They had taken a wrong turn - a really wrong turn, fortunately just a mistake, nothing criminal, officials later determined - and wound up throwing much of the nation’s capital into a panic.

Philebrity GOLD, people. And then, this:

Among the evacuees was Mayor Street, who had been in a Senate office building for a meeting sponsored by the Conference of Mayors. “They were discussing the future of Amtrak,” Street spokeswoman Deborah Bolling said. “When the order to evacuate came, they left. When they told them to go back in, they went back in.”

Way to act like you’re a hero for doing your job, dude.
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This entry was posted on Thursday, May 12th, 2005 at 7:57 am.