"When you have jets being flown up the English Channel, when you have submarines in the North Sea, it looks to me like it's warming up".
Sometimes they'd even squirt water at those people they didn't like, shooting cold salt water at their faces with their jets.
Turkey, meanwhile, has sent more fighter jets to reinforce an air base in the south-east of the country.
No one's getting rid of jets or yachts.
As troops fanned out in the town awaiting the arrival of Hawker Hunter jets to bomb and destroy civilian government, Allende desperately but vainly tried to contact Pinochet and for a few hours was convinced that his military commander had been kidnapped and silenced by the insurgents.
UK prime minister David Cameron and his defence secretary Philip Hammond have been busy trying to persuade the rulers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to buy British Typhoon jets, following the example of Saudi Arabia and Oman.
The youth had a bread knife in his hand and once up beside the vehicle, oblivious to the jets of water directed at him, started to hack away at the tyres.
In other games Sunday, the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 and the Nashville Predators had a 3-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets.
Though greater arms sales are on the agenda for Thursday's talks, even this traditional method of mollifying Gulf allies of the US may be reaching its limits, particularly since Washington is unwilling to provide the latest generation of fighter jets, which are reserved for Israel.
The hulking, purpose-built Jack/St Malo platform sits in ultra-deep waters of over 2,000m – displacing as much water as 350 jumbo jets would – drilling down to reservoirs 6,000 metres beneath the seabed (approximately 14 Empire State Buildings deep).
Cameron will meet the Sultan of Oman to discuss trade and regional foreign policy challenges – including Iran, Egypt and Yemen – and then the two men will view Typhoon fighter jets at the country's Seeb airport.
