Hugo Lowell @hugolowell wrote: New: US Capitol Police issues alert to evacuate all buildings — “USCP is tracking an aircraft that poses a probable threat to the Capitol Complex”
Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen wrote: BREAKING: “There is no threat at the Capitol” after earlier evacuation due to an unresponsive aircraft, according to Capitol Police.
Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser wrote: "Let's have a plane circle over DC and then some people will parachute out of it into a baseball stadium. you know, for fun."
"Cool!"
"Right?"
"Hey, should we give anyone a heads up over at the US Capitol where there was just a deadly insurrection like a year ago?"
"Nah."Mike Valerio @ValerioCNN wrote:NEW — Capitol evacuation — Single engine aircraft. Parachutists into Nats Park. Not coordinated appropriately, per two people directly familiar tell @CNN
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Hundreds of Texas state troopers are being told to slim down or step down from enforcement duties
Hundreds of Texas state troopers will need to shrink their waistlines by December or face discipline from the Department of Public Safety, according to DPS documents obtained by the Dallas Morning News.
The department wants its 4,000 officers to maintain "command presence" by keeping waistlines below 40 inches for men and 35 inches for women. Those who exceed the threshold are required to start recording and sharing their weight loss with the department.
Over 200 officers have failed the requirement – though all except two had passed the department's other physical fitness tests, the Dallas Morning News reported.
The waistline rule began in 2019 and drew a lawsuit that year from the Texas Department of Public Safety Officers Association. The organization, which represents 4,700 DPS employees, criticized the policy as "demeaning" and unrelated to performance. After pandemic delays through 2020, the department began using the new measures to evaluate officers last September.
I'm sure there's an established procedure for the FAA informing the Capitol Police. This isn't the first time parachutists jumped into a sports event.
HA!. There is an infamous thread on a U of Arizona sports thread from years ago when UA were on a basketball coach search. They were tracking the tail number of a plane known to belong to an important booster who was squiring the Athletic Director around to interviews.Estiveo wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 11:37 am Amusing to me is that as soon as I saw a tweet about the evacuation, showing the Capitol police alert including the type of plane (twin otter) and saying it was near the Navy Yard, I went to FlightRadar24 and found the plane. As soon as I clicked on it, it pulled up a pic of a bright red twin otter & identified it as belonging to the U.S. Army Parachute Team, showed its flight path as taking off from Joint Base Andrews, and a quick zoom in showed that Nationals Park was right smack in the center of the big circles it was making.
Not to excuse the abysmal communications screw up by the FAA, US Army, & MLB, but it took me less than 60 seconds to figure out what was going on by tapping on my phone 3000 miles away with a tubby kitty snoozing in my lap. It didn't take Poirot to solve this one.
NEW — Capitol evacuation — Single engine aircraft. Parachutists into Nats Park. Not coordinated appropriately, per two people directly familiar tell @CNN