Totally irresponsible conduct, in my opinion. There is no place in a control tower for children WHATSOEVER! Air traffic control is a very serious business.
(I have myself worked in a control tower, not as an ATCO but as a radar technician)

Jetflap, that’s my rate of progress, too. I use the highest possible scan resolution and generally get super results! Every speck of dust is beautifully reproduced!

Thanks for the picture of the 1935 Morris 8, John, I never did have a picture of mine, which was green, and I now recall that I had to hold the roof on with one hand sometimes while driving! I also remember now that the roads were virtually empty (compared to nowadays) in the early 1960s!

Thanks for the offer! We have had to remove the joysticks from our aircraft to prevent them from being nicked and appearing on E-bay!
Was it you who stopped me from getting into the NAM Vulcan cockpit a few years ago? No problem, though, I visited the cockpit of a live Vulcan at Waddington while I was in the RAF (about a million years ago!).
We are trying to get a J 29 “Barrel” for our collection, at the moment the nearest one is at Svedino’s Bil och Flygmuseum, about an hour away down the motorway. There is a prototype Draken there too, with a very long pointed red and hite probe on the nose.

Perhaps this is the right place to remind everyone that here at the Aeroseum Gothenburg is probably the only place in the world where you can climb into the cockpits of a Viggen and a Draken. I must confess that I am a guide in the Aeroseum, and a PM to me could well result in a personal guided tour.
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1938 Morris 8 convertible, non-runner, cost me a pint of beer (1/9 in old money). I managed to get it going, although it consumed more oil than petrol! The passenger door had to have a sliding bolt fitted to keep it closed after a friend fell out while the car was cornering! It finally gave up the ghost after transporting a Gipsy Major engine in the rear seats during a terrible winter with much snow, I think it was in 1962, from White Waltham to somewhere near Cottesmore. I then abandoned it in the RAF Cottesmore car park, where it may still be to this day!

If you use vesseltracker, you can specify a ship name and see its current position using AIS technology, with the added bonus of being able to see all my ship photos, 1,888 of them and counting, I am contributor “plang”!

Please don’t let this one incident deprive you of your sense of civil morality – if only the rest of the public could take such action as you did!
Incidentally the till operator should have asked him to open his rucksack, as standard procedure – I hope the shop manager learned a lesson from this and will warn his staff to be more aware. My first wife was a store detective, and even when she was off duty and out shopping with me, she almost always caught someone shoplifting, just by being observant!