When the scruffy looking bloke in mud-stained clothes with straggly hair handed over the box of remains with a display of (to me) ham-acted reverence, it left a sour taste in my mouth. The whole thing smacks of amateurish recklessness.

Edit: Having read the whole of this thread and associated articles now, I realise that my post doesn’t actually add anything to the debate. However, I felt I had to have my say.

Spitfire Looky-Like Wheels-up Landing

Spitfire replica makes an emergency landing at Sibson last Saturday.

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And here’s a link to the video; https://uk.screen.yahoo.com/dramatic-moment-spitfire-lands-without-070700675.html

To the chap on the video enquiring why there was a ladder out there, I’d venture to suggest because it was attached to a fire engine full of burly blokes with axes and all sorts of other useful extrication devices…

Tried to vote but the link appears to be broken. Can’t get to it via Google either.

Because I am still basking in the afterglow of Christmas cheer and cracker jokes; and nobody else has asked; the childish little boy inside just has to ask.

Will it be at Legends..?

Completely ‘off-topic’ but interestingly related – I’ve encountered the opposite problem with the identity of body parts. I used to be an ambulance-man and vividly remember attending the scene of a ‘one-under’ (train versus pedestrian). We found three legs. Turns out the very same train had hit a man on the tracks elsewhere on the same line the previous day and the missing leg was ‘hung-up’. It became dislodged in the second incident. This led to a fruitless and grisly search trying to find enough bits to make two people.