Not these asshats again!

Protester damages historic plane

Monday's opening of the National Air and Space Museum's new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center was marred by a protester who damaged one of the museum's historic aircraft.

The B-29 Enola Gay's fragile aluminum-alloy skin was damaged when a glass bottle filled with red paint was thrown at the aircraft from a walkway above it. The bottle hit the plane's left side, denting an area just below the third row of windows and then shattered on the floor.

``There was a pop, then a splat, then I turned around and saw that there was some damage to the airframe,'' said an employee at the museum, located at Dulles International Airport.

Museum security detained Thomas K. Siemer, 73, of Columbus, Ohio, around 11:15 a.m. until police from the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority arrested him and charged him with felony damage to property and loitering.

73?

Museum officials identified disruptive protesters as belonging to a group called the Gray Panthers.

The leftoid geezers are back! I haven't heard them mentioned since the 70's! Turn up your hearing aid, Gramps, so you can hear "Ingest excrement and expire."

``It's just plain ridiculous,'' said Cupe Adams, 25, a tourist visiting from Texas. ``This plane saved a lot of American lives. Two of my grandfathers would have been in the invasion of Japan had Truman not made the decision to use the bomb.''

An old geek is still a geek.