[VincentEvans]

To be accurate I am “miffed” at the blasé response of airport admin and local police. No “criminal negligence”, no “dereliction of duty”. Not even administrative punishment for utter incompetence at a primary job with rather serious potential consequences.

[tbrownaw]

Isn't this a bit like being mad at Joe's Unstaffed Parking Garage because someone "borrowed" your car that you left there for the week?

[TylerE]

Probably closer to a rent-a-car lot. Most GA pilots rent, they don't own. Owning only (kinda) makes sense if you fly A TON. Otherwise all the timed maintenance eats you alive. On a plane you have lots of "every N months" work items, even if you don't use it.

[throwaway173738]

That’s basically the right analogy.

[filleduchaos]

...which betrays a lack of knowledge of aviation beyond the inconveniences of scheduled passenger flight services.

There is an entire world of aviation outside of commercial airlines flying airliners out of large, towered airports with fancy terminal buildings. An aircraft is a vehicle like any other, and operating one is regulated in tiers like any other type of vehicle. It's about as inane to gripe that an untowered recreational airport is not regulated to the same extent as the airports you fly commercially out of, as it would be to gripe that you driving your car out of your home is not regulated to the same extent as driving a school bus.

[ncruces]

Or, to make the point more salient, a rowboat in a lake, vs a containership in a deep water port.