Maybe not the best curriculum for a "crash course"....

[captainsblog]

You've seen these kind of signs, tacked to telephone poles or planted into the side of the road. "Work from home!" "We buy foreclosures!" "Other shit with exclamation points at the end!" Desperate recessionary times leading to desperate recessionary measures.

Yet even after I've long become acclimated to such things, it came as a bit of a surprise to see one of these critters stuck in a corner intersection in the village of Williamsville today as I returned home from the bank, and not for one of the usual suspects:

1-863-XXX-XXXX!

Learntoflyquick.com

Turns out it's a real website, for a presumably real flight school in Florida, that promises you pilot certification in just two weeks.

Eleanor thought the same thing I did when I mentioned it, moments ago: who, other than a terrorist, would want a quickie pilot's license in this day and age?

I thought of calling: "Salaam, this is Mohammad Atta, Junior, and I wish to take your quick pilot course, DEATH TO AMERICA, ummmm, do you offer FAA health insurance?"

If they teach you to put your seat backs and 72 virgins into the upright and locked positions, there's probably something fishy going on here.

Comments

[bktheirregular]

I bet most of what those people teach could be covered with a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator. (I still remember people wanted to ban Flight Simulator because terrorists could use it to learn to fly planes into buildings.)

[whyaduck.livejournal.com]

Or it's a really lazy front for an FBI sting operation.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

I like this idea. They are trawling for potential terrorists in Williamsville, NY.