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There's a similar base in the UK at Menwith Hill. They don't welcome visitors as such, but activist/comedian Mark Thomas discovered that due to a quirk in a law, it was legal to fly a hot air balloon over it.

So that's what he did:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBksQsAZ2hQ (short version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epWTJUajIdI (full episode)

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That's just simply fantastic.

Mark Thomas is hilarious.

He once organised a bunch of people who went to the big Apple Store on Regent Street and opened a webpage on all the devices there. The contents of said page informed readers (potential buyers) that they could get the same devices at a nearby high street retailer who didn't indulge in shady tax avoidance schemes.

Another time he went around sticking Margaret Thatcher heads on the ladies in girlie mags.

Is he still doing any TV shows? I would be so up for that stuff. Just brilliant!

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