Discussion for article #239693
We just had a death in the famed Chicago Air & Water Show as well (parachutist crashed into a building). It may be time for the practices of these shows to be re-evaluated: Should airshows be occurring near high-rise buildings and crowded roadways?
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I always hated the air show when I lived in West Town. The noise, the wanton burning of fossil fuels, the tax dollars spent in advertising the Military Industrial Complex. And anytime you have air shows, you have large crowds and risking flying, a prescription for disaster. Maybe itās time to just stop having them?
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I am with you, but was trying to temper my comments . . . just too many negative issues associated with these events.
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It is nice to see that some other country besides the United States allows witless wonders in their aviation supervision bureau to make policies that allow people who really have no business flying an extremely unforgiving aircraft doing aerobatics in the proximity to innocent persons. If the general public understood the laxity of the United Statesā aviation supervision system, the demand would go out in overwhelming numbers to stop all airshows. All people have to do is look at how much the unlimited resources Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels military precision flying teams practice over uninhabited areas and still have accidents vs. how little these limited resources yahoos practice to get a clue as to what is going on in the skies above them.
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ā¦bet weāre still #1 in airshow deathsā¦
This ānanny stateā attitude is one thing I hate about the left, and so do a lot of centrist democrats. Donāt do this with an election year so close. Iām sick of extreme leftists costing us elections.
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Weāre coming to your house, Horrido, and putting child-proof locks on you cabinets.
Hope this doesnāt make you vote for Huckabee.
Edited to add: Iām sure those people burnt to a crisp in England, or the family of the dead parachutist in Chicago, sure are happy that they donāt live in a ānanny stateā.
Looks like a bit of concern trolling with Horrido. Nothing wrong with the ānanny state attitudeā that seeks to prevent large numbers of people being accidentally killed in public venues.
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Preference for the ninny state noted.
Next time thereās a severe-weather warning in your area, ignore that nanny state wussifaction! Run outside and play.