In the news this week, gyrocopter man, aka Douglas Hughes, pleaded guilty to the felony charge brought against him. As you may recall, he piloted his gyrocopter onto the lawn of the Capitol in order to deliver mail protesting campaign finance.
Clearly, campaign finance is a problem. The solution to which I don’t know and I’m not going to ruminate on it right now.
The amusing part (to me, at least) is at the end of the article:
Hughes’s other charges included operating without an aircraft registration, three misdemeanor counts of violating national defense airspace and one misdemeanor count of operating a vehicle falsely labeled as a postal carrier.
For some reason, this is just hilarious to me. I can see why that is a misdemeanor, it’s just quite amusing to think of a gyrocopter as a means of delivering mail. It did have the USPS logo on it though, so I suppose it was technically labeled as a postal carrier.