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To: NoGrayZone

The LI crash you reference was IIRC in a river, with a relatively soft landing and no fire. People could get close. Angle of crash was survivable. More of a hard landing in water than...

...a full load of jet fuel falling out of the sky, exploding with massive unsurvivable fireball on impact, and continuing flames which would kill anyone attempting approach thereto. Far more often than the miracles you address, people all too often get themselves killed rushing into obviously very dangerous situations.

Just because you’re self-admittedly stupid enough to race into a flaming mass of crashed burning jet fuel doesn’t condemn those of us who aren’t. The driver went around the site - quite possibly looking for survivors and collateral casualties; the scale of the site is big enough that he sure couldn’t walk around it fast enough to be useful. As for his silence, in every crash/emergency I’ve witnessed my reaction is a mumbled “oh shit” and calmly proceeding to assist as possible, which often involves staying in the vehicle to not become another casualty, getting out only when safe to do so and when assistance is objectively clear; the freakout you’re expecting comes about 15 minutes later when things calm down enough to warrant such a selfish emotion.


73 posted on 05/01/2013 1:02:41 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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To: ctdonath2

Since you have responded to me with an a$$hole attitude, go eff yourself.


75 posted on 05/01/2013 1:24:35 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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