David E Bratt MD

I have nev­er felt proud­er of my fel­low cit­i­zens than when I read that the drone that fell on­to a cou­ple of fel­lows at a fete in San Fer­nan­do had been pelt­ed down. Fel­low cit­i­zens, you have done what in­nu­mer­able peo­ples over the world, in­clud­ing the Tal­iban in Afghanistan, have been un­able to do. Nev­er mind that the drones over there cir­cu­late at 10,000 feet or more and it kin­da hard to pelt that high–ob­vi­ous­ly, Tri­nis do not in­tend to take this lat­est in­va­sion of our pri­va­cy eas­i­ly. There are oth­ers who think like us. The town of Deer Trail, Col­orado, pop­u­la­tion 598, is sched­uled to vote lat­er this year on a mea­sure that would al­low its res­i­dents to shoot down drones. The or­di­nance puts a boun­ty on re­cov­ered parts–$25 for the fuse­lage or wing, $100 for a whole drone. We could do worse.You know, one thing about Tri­ni, he could pelt. Since I small, the main way I know Tri­ni fight­ing, es­pe­cial­ly around Car­ni­val time, is pelt­ing. Pelt any­thing. Bot­tle. Stone.

Man­go. I was at the Oval in '61 when the Test be­tween Eng­land and West In­dies had was to stop be­cause a sec­tion of the crowd start to pelt the Eng­lish with rum bot­tle af­ter they run out a Tri­ni crick­eter.One fel­low, I know, pelt a car bat­tery once at a thief and knocked him off his mo­tor­bike. And as every­one know at Ca­lyp­so semis in south, if they don't like how or what you sing or if you look­ing too whitey-whitey, they does pelt yuh with toi­let pa­per. In fact it seems like Car­ni­val time is the best time in Trini­land to pelt. Is not a sur­prise they pelt the drone.At one time, I was afraid that our crick­eters had for­got­ten how to pelt and I put it down to the ab­sence of man­go trees in town. That is how Tri­nis learn to pelt. I knew boys who would pelt down the first man­go with a stone and then use the man­go to pelt down more.

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