Went to high school with a kid that was being recruited by Wyoming that paralyzed himself in an ATV accident
Cliffs: alive The video shows a small, single-engine plane drop down from the sky, clipping power lines and leaving a fiery plume in its path before crashing into a highway near Seattle. The plane, a Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six that had taken off from a nearby airport, went down Tuesday afternoon at an intersection in Mukilteo, Wash. The crash along State Route 525 was no doubt terrifying. “I thought it was the end of our lives,” one witness told NBC affiliate KING. But police said there were no serious injuries, even though the plane “struck the light pole where it erupted a fuel cell,” Mukilteo Police Officer Myron Davis told KING. “It spilled fuel onto the roadway, onto a vehicle which ignited.” Related: Horrified motorists witness Taiwan airliner flip into river. At least 31 killed. Mukilteo police later posted pictures on Twitter showing firefighters working near a mangled aircraft and at least one charred car. National Transportation Safety Board investigator-in-charge Eliott Simpson told The Washington Post that the agency is looking into the crash. Simpson said the pilot told authorities that he lost engine power upon takeoff from Paine Field (also known as Snohomish County Airport). The pilot tried to restart the engine midair, but it didn’t work, police told the Herald. The pilot also told authorities that he was flying toward Harbour Pointe Boulevard, searching for a place to set the plane down, when it snagged power lines and then wiped out a traffic signal, according to the newspaper. Fuel showered the vehicles below and caught fire. “We definitely felt the fireball as it went over the van,” Amanda Hayes, who said her vehicle was scraped by a wing of the plane, told KING. “I’m just thankful to be here.” Other motorists said the same thing. Juan Teran told the Herald he recalled thinking to himself: “Man, I think we are not going to make it.” “I didn’t know what to do,” another motorist, Steven Welch, told the newspaper. “I saw so much fire I just got out. I felt the heat go right by.” Khal Nouri, who was stopped at a red light with his family, told KING the plane zipped over them. “I thought it was the end of our lives,” he said, praising the pilot. “He didn’t want to hit a building obviously, he didn’t want to hit an area where people are, and he saw this street was empty. He did a fantastic job.” The Herald reported the pilot, from Oregon, was in Washington to get seats for a Falcon 50 flown by Emergency Airlift, an air ambulance service.
Had this happen in my hometown about 10 years ago when the cops decided to chase someone fleeing a domestic dispute scene, only with less-than-desirable results. Although I think the biggest crime here is the quality of the dash cam video.
Quick related story: In 6th grade while at the height of Jackass, my friend had a Dyno whose front wheel would come off exactly like this. We went to Publix and purchased a bottle Hershey's Strawberry Syrup. We got a video camera and proceeded to have him purposefully make the wheel fall off in front of cars at the Chick Fil A drive thru. When someone would come over to check on him he would then spit up the syrup as if it was blood. Got some great footage early on before the CFA employees caught on to our trick.
I had a friend in high school that loved Jackass and did the dumbest shit for laughs. Years later he would drunkenly drive into a ditch one night, get out to walk across the highway and get hit by an 18 wheeler.
The worst is watching him "warm up" at the beginning, his final seconds of standing upright on his own. The best, of course, is Michael keeping on dancing, even when some guy taps him on the shoulder.
Russian dash cams vs Chinese security cams go. From what I hear India would be a strong dark horse but since they don't have the internet yet no one will ever get to enjoy the daily suffering of billions of people.
you can just post videos of people breathing the air in China and India and they would make good contributions to this thread