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Life in the Age of Dumb, part 1:
They All Drowned.
Originally posted Jul 07, 2004
"Eleven Egyptians drowned in a well yesterday, in the small
town of Nuweiba, in the Sinai Peninsula, while attempting to
rescue a chicken. The chicken survived."
- AP, 1994, as quoted by the Fortean Times.
Some people, it seems, are too dumb to live...and my new coworker,
Rick, is one of them. Rick is a forty-Fiftyish pilot that
flies one of the Beech 18s that I maintain (yes, the Good
Reverend has arrived, and is already gainfully employed, back
in my original field of mechanical work).
Now, understand that the Beech 18 is a pig. It really doesn't
like to fly, and will do just about anything it can to achieve "an
undesirable aircraft/ground interface". It does strange things,
like stalling, for no apparent reason...how's THAT for a
comforting notion...there are HUNDREDS of these clunkers
still in service, and odds are one flies over your house once a
week, if not more. One minute, you are minding your own
business, watching "HeeHaw" on Nick at Night, and the next
an antique POS falls through your roof and kills you. Are you
ready for that? Are you ready to be front page news, in a story
that involves the words "closed casket"?
Who can explain these types of things? Not Rick, he's an idiot.
Not the drooling redneck kind of idiot, but rather a man with
NO sense of self-preservation. Apparently, Rick was involved
in some South of the border monkey business back in the 80s,
and became an adrenaline junkie. I've seen this type of thing
before...mostly in the army, but other places, too.
or kill me