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[tigertiger]

Once asked to leave "Keighley Gate" by the Duke of Devonshires gamekeepers cos the toy aircraft we were flying might scare the Grouse Chicks.

   We were flying Slope Soarers.

  Regards  Ian.

I can actually understand this one.
Small animals seem to be pre-programmed to react to natural dangers.
Like birds of prey soaring overhead.

I imagine that was the concern.

[gingyer]

Wullie,
unfortunately there are more people who unlike you don't have a brain cell and would
continue to go through the range

[Arrow5]

I can actually understand this one.
Small animals seem to be pre-programmed to react to natural dangers.
Like birds of prey soaring overhead.

I imagine that was the concern.

What will be the concern when these delightfull balls of fluff reach maturity around the "glorious 12th" by the same gamekeeper ?  During August where I live sounds just like Barry Buddon on a live firing day but goes on for much longer .

[Wasyl]

 "During August where I live sounds just like Barry Buddon on a live firing day but goes on for much longer"

You want to come and live where we are,when there is a live exercise on at Barry/B,in the winter they can last for 3/4 days and nights,with all kinds of weapons being used,+ parachute flares,and as luck would have it where our cottage is,it is in the flight path of them big Chinooks,and when they come over the hill flying low,and i mean devillishly low they pass right over our house,In fact in Feb they were that low,that one ,which had munitions slung underneath,they hit the tops of the oaks next to our house,
And later on in the night,whilst my wife and i were watching TV,we heardthe whup,whup,of a helicopter,and when i went outside i knew he was hovering close by,but i could,nt see him,well not until i switched on my 15,000,000 million candle power searchlight,he was at the bottom of my garden, 50 metres away and about the same up,I think the pilot must have got the fright of his life,cause i sure as h***did,mind you it was a great sight,

Wullie

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

It is more likely someone complained...

I contract to Nike, and have access to their campus,... and pond.
I sail there every Spring, as the weather permits. I would often
pick up a sandwich, sit on the bank of the pond, and sail while I
ate my lunch.

One time a security guard came by and asked me to pull the boat.
Out of two years of sailing now and again, one time I get the boot.
He cocked up some lame excuse about the "serenity and quiet" around
the pond. And I told him, that I was "quietly and serenely eating my lunch, while
sailing a model boat..." ... The campus has tennis courts, jogging paths, football pitchs,
swimming pool,... all for people to enjoy during their lunch hour... I wanted to sail a model boat.

The security guard hemmed and hawwed and called back to the security office,...
disappeared, then came back.... I had to pull my boat.

This never happened before, or ever has happened since. 
The only difference from the day the security guard showed up, and any
other day I have sailed a model on the pond, was that particular day, I was sailing a warship. 

[funtimefrankie]

Boats don't scare fish, I was sailing  a marinised plastic duck (quack type) near some large carp in our marina and they started chasing the duck, it was me and the duck that were scared, I thought they might capsize it!.

Another time sailing through Leigh in Lancashire the canal was really clear, you could see all the rubbish on the bottom, but you could also see large shoals of fish, that didn't blink any eye as the boat passed them.

[tigertiger]

What will be the concern when these delightfull balls of fluff reach maturity around the "glorious 12th" by the same gamekeeper ?  During August where I live sounds just like Barry Buddon on a live firing day but goes on for much longer .

And the game keepers job is to keep as many alive (no death from panic and trampling), and happy (so they get fat) as possible. Until the glorious 12th. It is not about PC or beeing twee. It is about yield. In the estate near where I used to live they lost a lot of chick due to foxes. The foxes never got in, they just worried the chics to death.

I also remember when I was in California servicing cattle ranches. I was banned from riding my motorcycle through the cattle pens. Each pen was about 100m wide and some much deeper. But the rancher was worried about stress. I don't think ranchers are PC, they are thinking about yield.

[Circlip]

Keighley Gate is open moorland with a public road running up the face, although seeing someone soaring over the "Sides" might induce someone with an engine thingy fastened to it to have a go, the lack of landing area and the wooly jumpers clattering all over might just deterr them. Once a precidence is set, it opens the floodgates to all who may follow rules curtiously but also the s*d everybody else brigade, and ain't THAT just life ???   

  regards  Ian