What Could Go Wrong? Mike Lindell Now Planning to Drop Pillows With "Little Parachutes" Over Canada

[kpete]

After his initial shipment of MyPillow products was denied entry into Canada, Mike Lindell told the Daily Beast about a backup plan to get free pillows to Canadian truckers: drop them from the sky via a helicopter.

Lindell said the pillows will have “little parachutes,” while adding “make sure you put that part in, or it could be dangerous.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mypillow-guy-mike-lindell-plans-to-drop-pillows-from-the-sky-over-canada-in-support-of-trucker-vax-protest?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

[Norbert]

1. HA! The Ottawa Airlift.

[TheBlackAdder]

33. With what they're made of, could that be considered toxic dumping?

[lagomorph777]

2. I immediately thought of Les Nessman.

I also thought of gigantic pillow bonfires.

[11 Bravo]

32. As God is my witness, I thought pillows could fly.

[Probatim]

3. They're hitting the pavement like sacks of wet cement.

Oh the humanity!

[CentralMass]

4. Hopefully the Royal Canadian Airforce will have a CF-18 Hornet in the air minding the border.

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[jmbar2]

5. This immediately comes to mind

Although pillows are lighter than turkeys, from a height, they can have a surprising impact...

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[Goodheart]

22. That's also what I thought of.

[durablend]

6. Aren't there fines and penalties for littering?

[zuul]

8. LOL! You and I think the same.

[zuul]

7. Trying to avoid a dumping fine in the US because no one wants his shitty pillows?

I wonder how much it would cost to dump them in a legal facility, in a legal manner.

I hope Canada sends him a big fat bill for littering.

[Solly Mack]

9. Move over Bowling Green Massacre. Make way for the Ottawa Pillow Fight.

[Ocelot II]

10. In the US it's illegal to drop stuff from aircraft

and Canada almost certainly has the same rule.

[Lucid Dreamer]

16. US Title 14 Part 91

§ 91.15 Dropping objects.

No pilot in command of a civil aircraft may allow any object to be dropped from that aircraft in flight that creates a hazard to persons or property. However, this section does not prohibit the dropping of any object if reasonable precautions are taken to avoid injury or damage to persons or property.

[Ocelot II]

17. And "reasonable precautions" aren't easy to create

since it’s hard to control where the items will land. You can get away with paper leaflets but large objects, even Mike’s leaden pillows, are going to be a hazard unless he drops them in the wilderness. Dropping pillows onto a highway, which seems to be the plan, would be an obvious hazard to traffic.

[Lucid Dreamer]

18. True, dat.

In the US you have to apply for and receive a waiver before a planned operation like this.

I've been looking for analogous Canadian aviation regulations, but I don't know how to use their system very well.
More later.

[Lucid Dreamer]

23. Canadian Aviation Regulations - Part VI -- General Operating and Flight Rules

Canadian Aviation Regulations

Part VI — General Operating and Flight Rules
Dropping of Objects
602.23 No person shall create a hazard to persons or property on the surface by dropping an object from an aircraft in flight.

https://lois-laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-96-433/FullText.html#s-601.14

[Ocelot II]

25. Would that include cheap foam pillows with little parachutes attached

dropped from a helicopter onto a busy highway?

Not that it's going to happen, since I would expect said helicopter to be promptly escorted out of Canadian airspace before it has the chance to create a hazard to persons or property on the surface by dropping said pillows...

[sakabatou]

11. Canada would sue Lindell for damages

[Treefrog]

12. This guy has to be bonkers.

[moonscape]

31. Never in doubt! n/t

[Walleye]

13. Brain rot

[NavyDem]

14. I wonder...

What are the penalties for entering Canadian Airspace and illegally dropping items from the sky. I think just illegally entering Canadian Airspace without permission would carry some kind of penalty.

[Blue Owl]

15. Just like during the Revolutionary War, right Donny?

[lame54]

19. Could that be considered a foreign invasion?

[PatSeg]

20. Could he possibly be any more ridiculous?

Probably, but it is beyond my imagination.

[Xoan]

21. Don't look up, Mike.

[tblue37]

24. Why would the truckers even want pillows? What would they do with them?

[HAB911]

26. Cocaine is a terrible drug

after a lifetime of abuse

[maveric]

27. Target practice for the Canadian army.

[BlueIdaho]

28. In Canada littering Carrie's a $5,000 fine

Dumping Carrie’s a $50,000 fine. I hope they charge him by the pillow.

[Emile]

29. Canada does not like polluters. I don't think they'll be kind

to the Canadian pilot who pollutes the sky with pillows and dropping them from the sky onto motorist windshields and possibly causing accidents!

[Noodleboy13]

30. I don't know, but I would pay good money to watch a My Pillow

vs Trailer Park Boys aerial dogfight tho


peace,
Noodleboy