Thursday, June 10, 2010

No kite flying during G8/G20!

You are not allowed to fly a kite anywhere in Toronto during the G8/G20. No, really:

6. The following operations will be prohibited:
•parachuting
•parasailing
•paragliding
•hang gliding
•gliding
•rocket launches
•kites
•radio controlled aircraft
•unmanned air vehicles (UAV)
•hot air balloons
•dirigible aircraft
•agricultural/crop-dusting flights
•sight-seeing
•aerial advertising/banner towing
•aerobatic flights
•flight training
•general aviation
•media flights
•traffic watch flights.


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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like I'm going to have to cancel my zepplin launch. :(

Skinny Dipper said...

Thank you, Taliban Steve.

Anonymous said...

no sight-seeing?? thought the G8/20 was supposed to promote travel to the T dot

Brian said...

Can we have our old Canada back please.

Anonymous said...

Banning rocket launches seems pretty sensible to me.

I am not sure that the "Old Canada" whatever Brian means, would have allowed it either.

Is trampolining with a sling shot banned?

What about skyscraper climbing?

Dennis Buchanan said...

Don't forget paper airplanes from the top of the TD Tower...

Okay, so they're shutting down a large portion of the downtown core, having rolling highway shutdowns, and prohibiting traffic watch flights? Then they're going to jam the cell phone signals of all the folks stuck in traffic.

And in order to make sure that reporters and dignitaries get a taste of how scenic Canada is outside of the city, they're spending millions to fake it.

Yep, obviously Toronto is a perfect place to hold the summit. If only it didn't have (a) the large number of potentially-hostile people, (b) its economic productive activities, (c) tourism, (d) a lack of scenic landscapes and small lakes, and (e) the information infrastructure necessary to the proper functioning of a city with millions of people.

Sorry, can somebody tell me again why we didn't pick some remote spot in the mountains? Or perhaps cyberspace?

-DDB

suzieQ said...

damn, no rocket launches, either? well, that's no fun.

David said...

The fences going up in toronto and balloons on the no-fly list reminds me of that '80's Walt Disney movie where a German family is seperated by the wall and risks everything to fly across it in a home made balloon.