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RX8er wrote:

Keith B wrote: they are 'Hey, hold my beer and watch this!'

I remember reading an NTSB report that had the same thing on the cockpit voice recorder.

Here is another very interesting official NTSB report:
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief ... 8632&key=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In 17 years as a volunteer fireman, rescue squad member and EMT, I was "privileged" to hear the cockpit recordings of several air crashes, and they were usually obscene.

Keith B wrote:

C-dub wrote:Terribly sorry about your friends. I wonder if it would have been a better punishment after convicting this guy to have released him to his family to care for, rather than paying a bunch of government employees to do that. Make him ineligible for any government assistance and let him be a burden on his family.

The problem is I don't think his family would have taken him. He was divorced and not really anyone to care for him. He would have either been free or ended up on state aid anyway. This way he is not only confined to his wheelchair he is confined to a cell. He killed a family of 5 and should have done 15 years for each count instead of one concurrent sentence. That's my view, however, I am extremely biased on this one.

IMO, he should have been turned over to the family of his victims to care for, with, say, welfare checks on him every fifteen years or so.

"WHO?" "Nah, he ran away in his wheelchair about a week after he moved in and we haven't seen hide nor hair of him since."

Keith B wrote:

OldCurlyWolf wrote:Out on the open road I run a gps program that keeps a continuous log of my speed, location and heading. If I have to go to court over a mistaken ID stop, I am going to win.

I do the same thing when I am flying. If I get reported for flying too low then I may have a GPS track showing my altitude for the FAA. It is also possible the GPS malfunctioned on that flight and didn't record.

ROFL, Keith, I have a GPS track from up in Hugo that shows that for a period of time we were flying BELOW ground level, and it's right!

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A bunch of years ago was driving my Plymouth Horizon, which was running on only three cylinders and was loaded down with furniture I was taking to the refinisher, thus the hatch was open, when I passed through a speed trap just after I moved to the left lane to clear a slower than 55 car which was putting out a lot of smoke and making it hard to breathe.

A few moments before this, a Jeep had passed us in the left lane doing well above the speed limit.

I think the alarm on the radar went off and woke the LEO up and he decided that the first car he saw was the one that set the radar off. It took him a long time to catch up with us.

That car would not have done 75mph on a straight drop, much less running on three out of four cylinders and loaded the way it was, even getting above 55. At that point in time the car was about ten years old and had better than 100,000 miles on it, and it was falling apart, so we had just signed a contract on a new car that day.

When the judge asked guilty or not, I told him not, and he set a court date for THANKSGIVING, at which point my wife prevailed upon me to just plead guilty, so I changed my plea, and the judge fined me $20.00. The standard fine for that jurisdiction at the time was well more than that, and the points never showed up on my license, nor could my friend at Motor Vehicles ever find a record of my conviction.