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1 hour ago, tigol said:

Saw a woman on a motorcycle on RR12 fly over the handle bars with no helmet. Did not end well.

I went straight to the liquor store after that.

I mean, I was on my way there when I saw it but my budget was ignored after that.

May 2021?

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47 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:


I can work in the moment just fine. I’ve worked with people that lost their shit in the middle of the scene. That’s unprofessional and irresponsible. We get paid to keep our shit together when everyone else is losing theirs. It’s after the adrenaline wears off and you’re left to yourself that it becomes real.

I have visitors from the past all the time. Best way I can explain it is it’s like the ghosts that Tommy Gavin sees in Rescue Me. The one that comes to see me more than the others is the 12 year old girl that hung herself in the garage with an extension cord because mom and mommy’s boyfriend chose her older sister to participate in the 3 way porno they made.

This is the kind of stuff he told me too.  Although your visitors are better than his.  The ones he told me about are something else.

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Decades ago, we were driving home from clubbing in Houston. Saw a 18 wheeler hit a car pinning the car into the concrete side. Car catches on fire. 18 wheeler driver jumps out of his rig. No one comes out of the car. In 2 mins, the car and the 18 wheeler were fully engulfed in flames. I was amazed how quickly the thing turned into a bonfire.

Anyway, after watching the surreal scene with the whole freeway which had stopped, we go back to our car. It's a convertible with the top down. My high as shit friend says, "Awesome, there's dead body ash falling on us." Sure enough, ash from the fire was falling into the car. Then my high as shit friend starts laughing and chanting, "DBA, DBA, DBA!"

Me: What the fuck is DBA?

Him: Dead body ash!

Yeah, we were fucking idiots back then.

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Posted
10 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Decades ago, we were driving home from clubbing in Houston. Saw a 18 wheeler hit a car pinning the car into the concrete side. Car catches on fire. 18 wheeler driver jumps out of his rig. No one comes out of the car. In 2 mins, the car and the 18 wheeler were fully engulfed in flames. I was amazed how quickly the thing turned into a bonfire.

Anyway, after watching the surreal scene with the whole freeway which had stopped, we go back to our car. It's a convertible with the top down. My high as shit friend says, "Awesome, there's dead body ash falling on us." Sure enough, ash from the fire was falling into the car. Then my high as shit friend starts laughing and chanting, "DBA, DBA, DBA!"

Me: What the fuck is DBA?

Him: Dead body ash!

Yeah, we were fucking idiots back then.

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Working downtown Houston I rolled up on a lady that had just been hit and killed jaywalking.  I remember her typing pool pumps and hose ankles sticking out from under the sheet.

Posted
2 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

First time for me was when I was 4 years old.  Dude was running through my neighborhood and a car was chasing him.  Our street was a cul-de-sac dead end, and we were the last house.  Dude ran onto our driveway (this is around 9PM) and we hear 2 gunshots and a car screaming away.  Me and Dad go outside to find running man on our driveway with one in the chest and one previously in the forehead...I say previously because the back of his head and his brains were all over the place.  Dad was like "ehhh, let's go back inside son"  

Was there a rat in the guy’s mouth?

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Posted
2 hours ago, South Austin said:

I briefly thought I might want a career in criminal law when I started law school.  I interned at the Travis County DA's office the summer after my 1L year, and saw enough to say nope.  I don't know how some of you do it for a living.

Because they're dead too, just on the inside. 

I kid, I kid. 

Posted
13 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

Oh, and it was right out front of Ted Lorenz’s office. And it’d be unseemly to steal work from him like that.

He's not going to get those eyes uncrossed without some serious cash.  Kind of you to think of him.

 

I'm sorry you experienced this.  I was fairly young (13) the first time I saw someone die up close.  I've seen others since, but that one has always stuck with me.

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44 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Decades ago, we were driving home from clubbing in Houston. Saw a 18 wheeler hit a car pinning the car into the concrete side. Car catches on fire. 18 wheeler driver jumps out of his rig. No one comes out of the car. In 2 mins, the car and the 18 wheeler were fully engulfed in flames. I was amazed how quickly the thing turned into a bonfire.

Anyway, after watching the surreal scene with the whole freeway which had stopped, we go back to our car. It's a convertible with the top down. My high as shit friend says, "Awesome, there's dead body ash falling on us." Sure enough, ash from the fire was falling into the car. Then my high as shit friend starts laughing and chanting, "DBA, DBA, DBA!"

Me: What the fuck is DBA?

Him: Dead body ash!

Yeah, we were fucking idiots back then.

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1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

Because they're dead too, just on the inside. 

I kid, I kid. 

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Family law practitioners, on the other hand, absolutely have to have a thick crusty shell of don't give a fuck.   I don't know how they do it.

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Posted
4 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

That's awful.  I saw the story on KXAN, but as you later commented they reported that the guy was on a motorcycle.  Did he try to cross the highway or was he hit from behind?

I hope the margs helped.

Crossing.  I think he was trying to head into Vaqueros.

2 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

First time for me was when I was 4 years old.  Dude was running through my neighborhood and a car was chasing him.  Our street was a cul-de-sac dead end, and we were the last house.  Dude ran onto our driveway (this is around 9PM) and we hear 2 gunshots and a car screaming away.  Me and Dad go outside to find running man on our driveway with one in the chest and one previously in the forehead...I say previously because the back of his head and his brains were all over the place.  Dad was like "ehhh, let's go back inside son"  

Dude--what the fuck kinda neighborhood did you grow up in?

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Posted
13 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

Jesus Christ—I just saw on the news that the dude was on a motorcycle. Fuck. I thought he was moving fast, and there was a lot of debris. But it never occurred to me that was was on a motorcycle. 
 

Fuck.

oof.  They're allowed to surf between lanes here in Cali.  Was nerve wrecking at first

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75 was shut down this morning after a woman and her dog were killed crossing the highway. Allegedly she was walking the dog and it ran onto the highway but the woman chased after it only to have a car plow into both of them.

Sorry you had to see that shit. 

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12 hours ago, YChang said:

Saw a guy jump off a parking garage in downtown Houston after his attempt to drive his car through the railing failed. It was surreal seeing him fall like a rag doll. 

This is all horrific but really made me think of this because dark humor:

a cartoon character with glasses and a green tie says i 'm going to jump !

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Posted
4 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

My little brother committed murder, and was executed. He did die well, doing what he could for the victim's family. I was there in Huntsville for his execution.

For the last two weeks before his death, a lawyer was doing what he could to get a stay. My job was to physically run around trying to get statements from people. My phone was ringing itself to pieces.

Since then, I had his ghost pop into my car a couple of times on trips. A happy ghost, stopping by for a minute. Not a bad experience.

What did bug me was hearing phantom cell phone rings for at least a year afterwards. For a while I'd travel with my phone turned off, just so I'd know it wasn't ringing.

Wow  quite a lot to unpack

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30 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

My little brother committed murder, and was executed. He did die well, doing what he could for the victim's family. I was there in Huntsville for his execution.

For the last two weeks before his death, a lawyer was doing what he could to get a stay. My job was to physically run around trying to get statements from people. My phone was ringing itself to pieces.

Since then, I had his ghost pop into my car a couple of times on trips. A happy ghost, stopping by for a minute. Not a bad experience.

What did bug me was hearing phantom cell phone rings for at least a year afterwards. For a while I'd travel with my phone turned off, just so I'd know it wasn't ringing.

Holy shit.

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Just now, gsoda3 said:

Were you a witness?  What lasting effects did the entire ordeal leave on you?

Of the initial murder? No. Of the execution? Yes.

Lasting effects? I don't know. Always had the ability to detach from a situation that you'd think would make somebody go berserk (though I would occasionally let myself go and engage in mayhem, as a sort of gift to myself,) post-execution and maybe just getting older, found myself with a super=power level of calm when I needed it. (I probably just described a personality disorder.)

Definitely was given the gift of not being scared of death. Not in a crazy reckless way, I do want to live, but I actually enjoy it more because obviously nothing's forever. My brother showed me a way through fear.

Lost the ability to worry about piddly shit. Not sure I ever did, but I don't even have the ability to fake it anymore.

Still hate phones ringing, but I only hear real ones.

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15 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

And that’s a first. Which for a man my age, is kind of extraordinary.  Those of you who served in combat have undoubtedly seen it many times.  I haven’t.

Driving home along 360.  Some guy decided it would be a good idea to cross the highway. It wasn’t. Car ahead of me hits him.

Anytime a shoe flies off, it’s bad. This was no different. I suggest someone check his pulse. He doesn’t have one.  Someone has the presence of mind to start chest compressions.  That actually works, from the standpoint that it started the blood flowing as evidenced by the growing pool of blood from the back of his head.

I didn’t do shit to help. You think you’d be a superhero in that situation. I certainly wasn’t. I stood there fairly slack-jawed. 
 

Then I went to Maudie’s and had a couple margaritas.

I’m not feeling particularly great right now.

Witnessing violent/traumatic death is no joke.  I was driving next to a small airfield in a suburb of Salt Lake City with my then infant son in his car seat in the back.  I noticed a small plane that had just taken off kind of rising and falling erratically before stalling out and plunging into the ground.  No explosion, but it caught fire quick and by the time I was pulled over, the whole plane was on fire.  This was about 30 yards away from me on the other side of a security fence.  I pulled over, got over to the fence, and I could see the pilot burning inside.  The first vehicle to arrive on the inside of the fence was just a civilian car, and a young woman got out and got within maybe 5-10 yards of the cockpit and just started wailing in a way I had never heard before.  Emergency vehicles arrived pretty quickly, but they couldn't do much.  Plane burned down super quick, and the pilot certainly was dead by the time they got there.  I read in the paper the next day that he was just a local pilot who flew advertising banners over sporting events.  He was taking off to go fly something over a minor league baseball game when he had some sort of engine trouble and boom he was gone.  That event fucked with me for quite awhile, and recalling it now, I can still see the dude in the cockpit.  I hope it does not stick with you like it did me, @Ghost of LL.  Here's a photo of the aftermath and the news article:

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WEST JORDAN — A Cottonwood Heights man flying the airplane that pulls the Salt Lake Bees' banner died in a plane crash Saturday. 

Quinn Michael Falk, 34, of Cottonwood Heights, was killed while he was taking off around 5 p.m. from the South Valley Regional Airport off of Airport Road in West Jordan, West Jordan Police Capt. Dan Gallagher said. He was flying a single-seat airplane of unknown model.

Witnesses at the scene watched Falk take off and fly between two flag bearers who hooked the banner onto the aircraft. Witnesses said the plane appeared to lose power, prompting Falk to release the banner in an attempt to stay in the air. But the plane fell from the sky, nosediving and bursting into flames.

From what witnesses told investigators, it appears a mechanical issue was the cause of the crash, and Gallagher indicated that the man died on impact.

 

Gallagher said he was told Falk was an experienced pilot with as many as 2,000 flying hours under his belt. 

The man's mother, father, brother and girlfriend came to the scene after the man's body was removed, Gallagher said. As of Saturday, the sparse remnants of the plane were all that remained at the scene, and Gallagher said they planned on leaving the plane for a few days for further investigation.

Gallagher said investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are already working to determine the cause of the accident. The airport was closed for the bulk of the evening but would be reopened Sunday, Gallagher said.

 

 

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Back when the highway was built atop Ben White, I made use of the new U-turn lanes to go north, at the Menchaca intersection, and immediately saw there had been a bad wreck, with smoke still in the air. A teenage boy was screaming and going from one pile of flesh to another, and these were yards apart. “You killed my girlfriend!” he kept screaming. (He had been t-boned by a speeding truck that ran the light, his passenger door had come open and his date had been crushed and severed with each rollover). Finally, he yelled, “You ruined my truck!” A woman stepped from the bus stop, held open her arms, and he collapsed into a human embrace.

Will never forget the horror, nor the empty feeling that filled the air.

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Posted
3 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

Crossing.  I think he was trying to head into Vaqueros.

Dude--what the fuck kinda neighborhood did you grow up in?

It wasn't the neighborhood at that point.  It was determined that it had started as a high speed chase (dude running had stolen some shit from the other guy) that had lasted for nearly an hour.  Thief dude wrecked his car on a main road near our neighborhood, took to foot trying to get away, ran himself into a cul-de-sac.....BOOM BOOM...  

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2 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

oof.  They're allowed to surf between lanes here in Cali.  Was nerve wrecking at first

Yeah.....GOLL and I were actually discussing this just a couple of days ago (before this event, so creepy), when I told him that I felt it was just matter of time before I or someone near me kills a stupid lane-splitter.   It's not legal here, but we have enough Cali imports I guess where it is super-common.  And I almost hit one the other day on Mopac -- traffic is doing about 40 mph, gap in the lane to my right (and I will need to exit soon), so I start changing lanes, only I have to yank back to my lane because I first HEAR the revving motorcycle engine....barely get back into my lane as he flies by, lane-splitting, a good 30 mph faster than the flow of traffic.

I easily could have clocked him, quite possibly killing him, and it would have been entirely his fault....which would have been cold comfort.  

The recklessness really pisses me off, and it's only getting worse.

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah.....GOLL and I were actually discussing this just a couple of days ago (before this event, so creepy), when I told him that I felt it was just matter of time before I or someone near me kills a stupid lane-splitter.   It's not legal here, but we have enough Cali imports I guess where it is super-common.  And I almost hit one the other day on Mopac -- traffic is doing about 40 mph, gap in the lane to my right (and I will need to exit soon), so I start changing lanes, only I have to yank back to my lane because I first HEAR the revving motorcycle engine....barely get back into my lane as he flies by, lane-splitting, a good 30 mph faster than the flow of traffic.

I easily could have clocked him, quite possibly killing him, and it would have been entirely his fault....which would have been cold comfort.  

The recklessness really pisses me off, and it's only getting worse.

"Tell him about the cyclists...."

 

-Winston Zeddemore 

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4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah.....GOLL and I were actually discussing this just a couple of days ago (before this event, so creepy), when I told him that I felt it was just matter of time before I or someone near me kills a stupid lane-splitter.   It's not legal here, but we have enough Cali imports I guess where it is super-common.  And I almost hit one the other day on Mopac -- traffic is doing about 40 mph, gap in the lane to my right (and I will need to exit soon), so I start changing lanes, only I have to yank back to my lane because I first HEAR the revving motorcycle engine....barely get back into my lane as he flies by, lane-splitting, a good 30 mph faster than the flow of traffic.

I easily could have clocked him, quite possibly killing him, and it would have been entirely his fault....which would have been cold comfort.  

The recklessness really pisses me off, and it's only getting worse.

I see at least one lane splitter every single day on I-35. Fuck those guys. I will laugh when I see one get taken out and will not feel bad about it. 

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8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah.....GOLL and I were actually discussing this just a couple of days ago (before this event, so creepy), when I told him that I felt it was just matter of time before I or someone near me kills a stupid lane-splitter.   It's not legal here, but we have enough Cali imports I guess where it is super-common.  And I almost hit one the other day on Mopac -- traffic is doing about 40 mph, gap in the lane to my right (and I will need to exit soon), so I start changing lanes, only I have to yank back to my lane because I first HEAR the revving motorcycle engine....barely get back into my lane as he flies by, lane-splitting, a good 30 mph faster than the flow of traffic.

I easily could have clocked him, quite possibly killing him, and it would have been entirely his fault....which would have been cold comfort.  

The recklessness really pisses me off, and it's only getting worse.

I have no empathy for motorcycle riders that are splitting lanes and get killed. I do empathize with the people in the cars that would have to live knowing they had unintentionally killed someone. 

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6 hours ago, South Austin said:

I briefly thought I might want a career in criminal law when I started law school.  I interned at the Travis County DA's office the summer after my 1L year, and saw enough to say nope.  I don't know how some of you do it for a living.

It's a little more removed on appeal.  I'll never forget the first murder case I worked on though.  I can recount every name and detail of that one.  It really stuck with me.  

 

In my time, I've worked with a lot of former prosecutors.  The gallows humor seems to be a learned skill.  But even having worked with people who have seen it all up close, some crime scene photos can't be unseen.  

What's that line from The Stand?  "Just pretend it's cord wood, Hawk."

 

It's not all awful.  The car-chase videos are pretty rad, in fact.

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that sounds like a nightmare to witness. i know there are images you can't get out of your head. I'm sorry.

 

apropos of fucking nothing, i didnt even know where to put this and i can't believe this thread is right here.

i think I just saw a man die in the gotdamn waiting room of my heart doctor. like an hour ago. I'm here for a simple follow up in cardiac unit, dude was walking directly in front of me,  between me and another guy, starts making terrible noises and gasping, stumbling, then just started falling me and the guy were closest and grabbed him to sit, he couldn't speak just these horrible noises, gasps, everybody in waiting room starts screaming, I'm hollering at receptionist that he's collapsed...a couple nurses run out and it's all 'he's crashing! no pulse!' within 90 seconds there are about 30 medical folks surrounding him, he's on the floor they're doing chest compressions, they rolled in a crash cart, shock him...

oh, and also, my mate just happens to currently be in the ER in this same hospital for tachycardia or 'aflutter' or something, he's gong through some weirdness they can't quite pin down it's a teaching hospital so they're trying to figure it out, not a crisis he feels fine except for a resting HR of 136 lol but his pcp sent him here this morning to ER bc they were better equipped.

so like a lot, all at once, and this poor guy is clearly having a heart attack right in front of me. like wtf. I kinda lost my shit standing against a wall out of the way. and then they call me back haha.

(time gap)

anyways, I'm in ER now w/ spouse, my appt went great* except for elevated bp and hr which doc said is understandable. mate is fine just bored and still trying to figure out why he's sitting here with 130 hr.

I've calmed down, asked about the man, 'they got him back!' (they were hollering his name while it was happening so i asked about him, told them I was right there when it happened). this hospital is the fucking bomb, love the docs here. 

and if you're going to have a heart attack, not sure there's a better place than in the fucking waiting room of the cardiac unit at a big teaching hospital! wow.

sorry for typos, I was all stream of consciousness there for a bit.

so how's y'alls Wednesday? 😜

 

 

 

 

*fyi if you have persistent afib I cannot recommend having cardiac ablation enough! wish i'd done it before we went to Europe last year, has made a huge difference. 

 

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6 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:

I have visitors from the past all the time. Best way I can explain it is it’s like the ghosts that Tommy Gavin sees in Rescue Me. The one that comes to see me more than the others is the 12 year old girl that hung herself in the garage with an extension cord because mom and mommy’s boyfriend chose her older sister to participate in the 3 way porno they made.

Good luck finding the right Hallmark Card too. 

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My sister hit a troubled 13-year-old that suddenly ran on the highway after running away from home (the house was right on the highway). Tough thing to be responsible for even when it wasn't your fault and everyone every step of the way says it wasn't your fault.

I knew a young fella who stepped out in front of a car on College (Highway 90) in Beaumont to end it all. Witnesses said it was deliberate. I tried to help that kid for years but he was just broken.

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Afterwards, through family friends, I found out the lady driving the car was on her way to the airport to fly to a family vacation with her grandkids, and it affected her for years.

So fucking unfair to lay that on an innocent.
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2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Really? Most interesting thread in a while for me. Not pleasant, but interesting. 

Username checks out.

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2 hours ago, Goredho said:

Witnessing violent/traumatic death is no joke.  I was driving next to a small airfield in a suburb of Salt Lake City with my then infant son in his car seat in the back.  I noticed a small plane that had just taken off kind of rising and falling erratically before stalling out and plunging into the ground.  No explosion, but it caught fire quick and by the time I was pulled over, the whole plane was on fire.  This was about 30 yards away from me on the other side of a security fence.  I pulled over, got over to the fence, and I could see the pilot burning inside.  The first vehicle to arrive on the inside of the fence was just a civilian car, and a young woman got out and got within maybe 5-10 yards of the cockpit and just started wailing in a way I had never heard before.  Emergency vehicles arrived pretty quickly, but they couldn't do much.  Plane burned down super quick, and the pilot certainly was dead by the time they got there.  I read in the paper the next day that he was just a local pilot who flew advertising banners over sporting events.  He was taking off to go fly something over a minor league baseball game when he had some sort of engine trouble and boom he was gone.  That event fucked with me for quite awhile, and recalling it now, I can still see the dude in the cockpit.  I hope it does not stick with you like it did me, @Ghost of LL.  Here's a photo of the aftermath and the news article:

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WEST JORDAN — A Cottonwood Heights man flying the airplane that pulls the Salt Lake Bees' banner died in a plane crash Saturday. 

Quinn Michael Falk, 34, of Cottonwood Heights, was killed while he was taking off around 5 p.m. from the South Valley Regional Airport off of Airport Road in West Jordan, West Jordan Police Capt. Dan Gallagher said. He was flying a single-seat airplane of unknown model.

Witnesses at the scene watched Falk take off and fly between two flag bearers who hooked the banner onto the aircraft. Witnesses said the plane appeared to lose power, prompting Falk to release the banner in an attempt to stay in the air. But the plane fell from the sky, nosediving and bursting into flames.

From what witnesses told investigators, it appears a mechanical issue was the cause of the crash, and Gallagher indicated that the man died on impact.

 

Gallagher said he was told Falk was an experienced pilot with as many as 2,000 flying hours under his belt. 

The man's mother, father, brother and girlfriend came to the scene after the man's body was removed, Gallagher said. As of Saturday, the sparse remnants of the plane were all that remained at the scene, and Gallagher said they planned on leaving the plane for a few days for further investigation.

Gallagher said investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are already working to determine the cause of the accident. The airport was closed for the bulk of the evening but would be reopened Sunday, Gallagher said.

 

 

I used to fly, and when I was in ground school, we watched a video as a warning not to engage in aerobatics in planes not properly stressed for such maneuvers.  The video was one of an air show.  A guy in a Cessna was flying a couple of hundred feet above the runway.  His wife was MCing the airshow.  He does a barrel roll and, about half-way through the maneuver, the wings just fold off.  As the plane plunges toward the ground, his wife is on the PA system screaming bloody murder.  The plane crashes and he is killed.  She continues to scream.  

 

It never occurred to me to try to roll a Cessna.  I certainly didn't have any inclination to do so after watching that video.

 

/edit to add: I don't know how Doug Masters did it, especially after Notcher loosened his oil cap.

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1 hour ago, Deej said:

I see at least one lane splitter every single day on I-35. Fuck those guys. I will laugh when I see one get taken out and will not feel bad about it. 

Man, I don't understand these people.  I nearly took one out coming back from San Antonio last weekend on the Toll Road around Austin.  These folks and bicyclists are the most brash people on the road.  All it takes is for me to be a little tired and run down and you're fucking dead.  You aren't winning a collision with a pickup truck...

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In 1980 my Marine Reserve unit was in Houston on Old Spanish Trail.  We were in formation facing a big empty field behind the reserve center and this little experimental ultralight craft took off about 200 yards away.  The guy pulled back too hard, went straight up, stalled, and then nosedived straight into the ground from about 200 feet up.  The sound of the crash and the knowledge that the engine was right behind him has stuck with me all this time.  Someone wondered aloud about the last thing that went through the pilot's mind, and one of the Vietnam vets said that it was probably the prop.

My paternal grandmother had a heart attack in front of most of the family and died as my little brother and I did CPR on her, with my dad freaking out behind us.  We were told by the ER doctor that they couldn't have saved her if she was in the ER with a doctor right there when it happened, but that doesn't help.  I have occasional bad dreams about that.

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First death I saw.  Colleague shot through leg. Then stomach.   It’s strange you don’t really process during the fog and chaos. You just react.  It would be weeks later and still now I see it in my dreams and I see it happen to me   This thread jogged that memory.   
 

he didn’t make it.  It was 2006

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1 hour ago, Deej said:

I see at least one lane splitter every single day on I-35. Fuck those guys. I will laugh when I see one get taken out and will not feel bad about it. 

Legal out her in Cali.  Fuckers have a death wish. 

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14 minutes ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Legal out her in Cali.  Fuckers have a death wish. 

Common practice in Mexico. But most places people are keeping their speed down so the one=almost-every-block speed bump doesn't disembowel everybody's vehicle.

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I was a physician assistant in the OR for 8 years. Fortunately, foot/ankle and thyroid surgery do not lend themselves much to death on the table.

We had one 80-something year-old die in recovery after an above-knee amputation, and I witnessed unsuccessful attempts to bring him back.

My wife certainly has countless stories both as a nurse in the liver icu in the Houston Med Center, and as a CRNA, primarily with very sick pediatric patients. I don't know if I remember any well enough to share, but I know organ procurement cases on young people are a very negatively surreal experience.

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18 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

In 1980 my Marine Reserve unit was in Houston on Old Spanish Trail.  We were in formation facing a big empty field behind the reserve center and this little experimental ultralight craft took off about 200 yards away.  The guy pulled back too hard, went straight up, stalled, and then nosedived straight into the ground from about 200 feet up.  The sound of the crash and the knowledge that the engine was right behind him has stuck with me all this time.  Someone wondered aloud about the last thing that went through the pilot's mind, and one of the Vietnam vets said that it was probably the prop.

My paternal grandmother had a heart attack in front of most of the family and died as my little brother and I did CPR on her, with my dad freaking out behind us.  We were told by the ER doctor that they couldn't have saved her if she was in the ER with a doctor right there when it happened, but that doesn't help.  I have occasional bad dreams about that.

Was it a fucking Osprey?

Fuck those cursed things!

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My sister witnessed her youngest blow his brains out, completely amazed how she functions as normally possible as she does on a daily basis. 

Saw dad take his last breaths in a hospital, I was too late for when mom passed. 

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1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

Was it a fucking Osprey?

Fuck those cursed things!

No, it was an ultralight, like a hang glider with an engine and prop hung from it.  They look fun until you think about the prop catching up to you.

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