[TheForge] OT - sometimes stuff just happens

[Andrew Vida]

On 4/9/2012 1:14 AM, terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello;
>
> sometimes stuff just happens.
>
> one of the two people onboard that homebuilt experiemental airplane that
> crashed in the publix store in florida this past week, is one of my
> lawyers.
>
> he has burns over 60 percent of his body and is currently in a coma.
>
> there is no good way of knowing what he is aware of.
>
> there are things far worse than death.

Ow.  Burning is one of the worst things I can think of to have happen to 
anyone.  Ironic for a smith, I suppose.

What sort of homebuilt was it?  Why did it go smoking hole, pilot error 
or was it the plane?

Man, and I thought I was having a horrible weekend, what with spending 
Saturday at the range firing short-barreled M16s, a Miramount M60, AK, 
Vtech, and a spectrum of suppressed side- and shoulder arms.

Best wishes to your lawyer and anyone else who survived.

On the political note, have any of the squeams started screeching for 
bans on private aircraft yet?