[af_vet_rr]

And the histrionic FReeper would be the type to have knee-jerk speculations on an already painful situation.

What do you expect, it's 2005, and the foolish or scared would rather try to come up with all kinds of wacko theories about terrorists taking out buses or global warming causing hurricanes, when vehicles have been catching on fire ever since they first started rolling off the assembly lines, and hurricanes have been hitting our coasts for God only knows how long.

I do pity those who try to blame hurricanes on global warming, for being ignorant (not just Al Gore, but he's at the top of the list..).

I also pity those who assign happenings like the bus fire, or the airplane landing wheel incident to terrorists. They must live with a lot of fear to automatically assume that everything is potentially a terrorist act, regardless of how often it's happened in the past. I couldn't imagine living my life being that afraid, and so I do feel sorry for them.

[Steve_Seattle]

"They must live with a lot of fear to automatically assume that everything is potentially a terrorist act, regardless of how often it's happened in the past."

Several times a year, do buses become flaming infernos because of a routine maintenance problem like a faulty brake line? I've never seen it before. And, frankly, I'd be more likely to live in fear if THAT were true than if terrorists were blowing up buses.