ANOTHER PARKING OFFENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23219, 17 June 1937, Page 18

ANOTHER PARKING OFFENCE

The familiar phrase ** Sailors don’t care” will have to be altered to “Aviators don’t worry ” if the profession imitates the casual doings of a certain Steve Albulet, of Regina City, in Canada, recently. He landed outside his own house, parked his aeroplane on the spot, with its tail extending over the sidewalk—the whole made “safe” by being tied to a tree on the boulevard, with the engine still running. What he should have done, of .course (says the Manchester Guardian), was to ask the hired girl to keep an eye on the machine, or he might have tied a little red flag on the propeller, or even, if it had occurred to him, shut off the engine. But, of course, when a seasoned aviator is accustomed to dropping down from the clouds to tell his wife he wants doughnuts for tea and he only has a second to spare he naturally just doesn’t give the old bus a second thought. The Regina City Police Court fined Mr Albulet, but most people will agree that it would have been quite enough if the Bench had asked him to say he was sorry. After all, aviators live on a different plane from the rest of ue.