Halifax Pilot Creates Blue Jays Logo in the Sky + Kid's Custom Blue Jays Eye?! ⚾️✈️

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Okay, so first up, this Halifax pilot, Dimitri Neonakis, just flexed on everyone by drawing the Blue Jays logo in the sky. Like, how extra can you get? He said he did it to show love for the Jays, the fans, and himself. It took him like 2.5 hours to fly the route, and another 3 hours just planning it out. The whole thing covered about 570 kilometers, which is kinda wild.

He started with the maple leaf part of the logo, which is kinda iconic. Someone even hit him up after spotting it on a flight-tracking website. Apparently, he's done like 30 of these "sky drawings" before, for everything from finding missing kids to shouting out people. That's a W in my book. 💙

But wait, there's more Blue Jays stanning going on! This eight-year-old named Logan Dorna is rocking a custom prosthetic eye with the Blue Jays logo on it. He had his left eye removed when he was a baby because of this thing called retinoblastoma. Matthew Milne, who is an ocularist, created this eye with a gold iris and baseball seams, and the Blue Jays logo painted on it. He's also got another prosthetic for everyday use. Logan loves playing baseball and watches the Blue Jays, so he wears his Blue Jays eye during the playoffs. He's so chill about it, and his parents hope he can inspire other children to be confident in themselves. Big ups to Logan! 💯

Okay, fam, but lowkey gotta switch gears real quick. This is gonna bring the mood down, but important to know. Remember that tour bus accident at Columbia Icefield? Turns out, that bus had some major brake fails before it yeeted down that hill. Three people died: Dionne Durocher, Kamleshbai Patel, and Griva Patel. And like fourteen got seriously injured, that's rough. 💔

The driver had been complaining about the brakes for days before it happened. And get this, the bus had just been serviced like two months before. The judge was sus about how the bus passed inspection and then had a "catastrophic brake problem" so soon after. Now Brewster Inc. (the tour company) did their own investigation and added seatbelts and changed up driver training and safety stuff after it went down, which is better late than never, tbh. They plead guilty to 2 charges and got fined $475,000. After the accident, Brewster Inc. said they would keep a closer eye on the brakes and keep the Ice Explorers in full-wheel drive for the whole trip. Hoping things are a little less sus from now on. 🙏