Did anyone see the idiot on TV today?

[bigboy]

I think idiots like that , are the one that gives aviation a bad name , and make the general public think ( oh my god small airplane are soo unsafe).Anyway he should thankful to be alive . and hope that he learned his lesson.

 

[KingAirer]

Can you guys imagine this guy hanging upside down in a powerline calling up ATC on his DC ANR headsets and his gps in his hands giving them the coordinates??
Glad he made it alive so we can poke a little fun.
kingairer

 

[skeezer]

Power lines are property, right? I'm sure they weren't his power lines. Who climbed up there and rescued him? Wasn't that person's life in danger?

What if he'd missed the power lines, what would he have hit?

Wiggums,

I think you missed my point. In no way whatsoever am I defending that idiot. What you quoted from me was in reference to my fuel reserve theory. The guy who ran himself outta gas definetly violated 14 CFR 91.13.

1900 Laker....Naw, I'm not a lawyer. However if I was the powerline fool's lawyer I think the only way out would be to use the Chewbacca defense:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wooky from the planet Kishic, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense.

Why would a Wooky, an eight-foot-tall Wooky, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense. But more important, you have to ask yourself what does this have to do with this case.

Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case.

It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a client and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I'm am not making any sense. None of this makes sense. And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit. The defense rests."



Skeezer

 

[avbug]

Very interesting. Prozac?

 

[skeezer]

Very interesting. Prozac?

Nope, South Park. It's from the "Chef Aid" episode. It was a Johnny Cocran imitation that they did.

Guess not too many people watch South Park, oh well.

Skeezer

 

[Wiggums]

I think you missed my point. In no way whatsoever am I defending that idiot. What you quoted from me was in reference to my fuel reserve theory. The guy who ran himself outta gas definetly violated 14 CFR 91.13.

Yeah, I did miss it, now I see, it goes back to the previous post.

The guy violated so many regs, and exercised such poor judgement he shouldn't be sitting in the front of an airplane for a long time.

 

[Simon Says]

Skeezer.........it sounded like the bit from Saturday Night Live. "I am just a simple caveman" "I dont understand your laws and you all frighten me"

Anyways this story reminds me of the guy that hit wake turbulance flying into boeing field about 5 years ago. He was in a 152 when he hit some wake turb. and ended up in some power lines upside down short of the runway. The poor guy was there over four hours waiting to be rescued.