Oh noez the admins are teh corruptzors.

I didn't know Smurf's could win Darwin awards.

is it horrible that everytime i open this thread in my mind's eye i see the Pit Droid going through the pod racer engine?

I'm surprised no one sported an Indian Jones airplane-fightscene reference.

I'm going to sound like a total dick but the only thing that I might feel tragic over is that his family has to suffer. But damn. The slightest bit of common sense should tell you to stay the **** away from jet engines if they are powered up. Those things can blow houses to particle boards at slightest bit of thrust.

Chances are he reproduced at some point

Is what I read.

wow I'm surprised how sucked into the engine he was

Perhaps I should have said "because they were being careless". If someone got sucked through trying to push someone else to he would most definitly deserve it.

harrison ford would have trouble getting him off his plane

If there exists any sort of God or karma or justice in the world, you (Rob in particular) will die in the most humiliating way possible. Hopefully fairly soon.

I see Captain Reynolds has been at work again.

"Darn."

I wish there were a jet engine centralized for ever 100 people in the world. It'll be a new kind of natural selection.

How about we just murder all midgets? That'd be even more natural selection, and would make for a demonstrably taller population (as height is a clear genetic component, whereas intelligence isn't).

Personally, I say we turn them all into a bunch of basketballs.

We should use them for labor in small places.

Like legal child labor.

Sup Tulang

While I feel bad for the guy, I do have to admit it was pretty stupid. I mean, the back of the turbines could blow a bus over easily, I can only imagine what the suction is like.

but what if we get the Irkin Empire invading?
they could be our liaisons with the Invaders, or at least local governors?

As long as I get GIR, I don't care.

isnt modern medicine the only thing stopping natural selection knocking at your door?

Spe, in ye olden times in your country, dwarfs were considered to be lucky to have, and were often seen in royal courts.

With motorcycles.

I think that was going a little too far, man. At least in my mind, its one thing to joke about a wild generalisation, but I think that thats aimed a little too personally.

.... is that his face in the last picture? I think I see an eye socket in the skin in there, somewhere.

I had been debating looking at these pics.

You've just convinced me not too.

/sissy

Jep, just look at the first picture -- it has no gore and is taken from about a hundred yards away from the plane.

He admitted it himself.

I think when you hang out with the sort of people who make fun of pictures of people who have been brutally killed, it's hard to really complain

All the cynics in here would react very differently if it were a friend or relative of theirs who got killed in such as accident. But no, wait, it's only people in Singapore who get in stupid accidents, not Americans, Americans are always rational and responsible.

I didn't read every post in this thread... But I'm pretty sure there isnt a "America is the best!" theme. In fact, a lot of people who posted in this thread are from the UK.
So... whats your point?

Yeah, please get over yourself. Thanks.

****em, the crippled ******* gotta eat reality sometime or another

Last year an a crew member on an A-300 (The plane I work with most, but this wasn't our company) attempted to open the crew entry door too soon after an aborted flight. (Forget why they had to turn around)

The cabin hadn't depressured. He was sucked out of the door, onto the runway, and died on impact. (FYI, crew entry door is like 15-20 feet in the air)

He was an American. There is a BIG WARNING LIGHT right next to the handle on the crew entry door. Not to mention the warning light in the cockpit. You know, where he just was.

The majority of fatal aircraft incidents by far are the result of personal negligence.


A couple years ago in Singapore, a mechanic was sucked into the engine of a 737. And it wasn't even his falt. He was expecting an oil leak, well out of the danger area of idle thrust. The mechanic on the other side of the plane who was headsetting with the pilots was asked if engine two was clear, because they needed to throttle up. The headsetting mechanic was too lazy and too stupid to walk around to the other side of the plane to make sure engine two was actually clear.

That actually is pretty horrible, because it was someone elses negligence that killed someone.


I pose you this question. A drunk driver hits a young woman head on. Makes the news doesn't it? Usually. And everyone is pretty pissed.

A drunk driver flys off an enbankment only killing himself. NO ONE CARES. Why? Because he didn't hurt anyone but his own stupid self. It won't even make the paper unless he causes traffic flow problems or was famous.




Why is it any different? It really isn't.

I have no sympathy for people who put themselves into alethal situation through their own negligent behaviour, EVEN LESS for people that put other people in the same position.

And I don't expect anyone elses sympathy if I had done the same or caused the same.

Yeah, the second sentence wasn't that related, you're right. What I meant though was that this internet-induced black humor and cynicism is very easy to do when it's something so emotionally remote. All these 'he deserved it' attitudes would instantly shatter should the person involved be someone close.

who cares you suck

I guess that makes me an *******.

Becuase I can't feel sorry for people that die doing stupid things even if they are my friends.

This includes friends of mine who have;

died in street races
died of an overdose
commit suicide
etc

rob has been there dude

That's kind of the whole point, isn't it? This IS the internet and it IS someone on the other side of the world.

yes but every forum requires a leaky vulva of a poster.

When can you mourn, Rob?

haircut day