Camoflage..safety in numbers
My uncle told me this story, and it must be true right, cos he was in the SAS and everything.
No, really, he was. He then worked for the MoD in procurement, he boasted (as was his want) that he could spend up to £10 million without authorisation and used to play war games all day, contingency plans for "what ifs" in the Cold War era.
This story concerns a night watchman, who was told to guard six highly secret, expensive, dogs danglies planes. These planes were uberstealth, cigarillo thin with very pointy nose cones, fantastically streamlined.
Unfortunately, whilst said nose cones were brilliant at cutting through the air, they weren't all that when it came to being swung on by bored ne'er do wells, as the surprised night watchman discovered to his dismay.
Shitting kittens, he looks around for someone else to blame, and, realising all fingers would be pointing his way, he took the only decent way out...

He bent the other five nose cones and hoped no one would notice.
(Countryslicker, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 16:09, 2 replies)

Hmmm...
...only two things wrong with this as far as I can see.
1. Every piece of expenditure in the procurement area of MoD needs 3 signitures - the project manager to approve the work, commercial to ensure that it is on a legal contract and finance to ensure that the funds are available to pay for it.
2. The story is an urban myth. Last time I heard it the planes were Israeli and the guard was swinging on the wings.

hey ho.
(bigquack, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 11:17, closed)

Newsround
I remeber hearing this on Newsround (with John Craven) in the 80's - set in Argentina.
(kitescreech still here, Sun 28 Oct 2007, 0:17, closed)