>   Let me guess. It was an American.  They have done that in Canada as well.
> Some of those air
> search radars are quite powerful not to mention dangerous. I have heard
> rumours of cooking birds
> in flight at 500 yards. Think what that might do to your body.

 A guy I went to school with from the Airforce told of being able to set
a cardboard
box on fire by setting it in front of a fighter's nose radar.