HOLY F__k!

larry moe 'n curly said:

Wow, Boomie- that is downright creepy.

Natalie

"Go Mavs" ...

I remember that! What a fruit loop.

Natalie

"Go Mavs" ...

A rule in some states is that if someone dies while you are committing a crime, it's murder one, but that's usually if you rob a bank, and an old lady has a heart attack from being scared.

This one is a gray area.

Natalie

kaboomie

Yeah, I remember that.

Yeah, I remember that one, too.

And there have been a few other really close calls here - which is why the Los Angeles area airborne broadcasters are REALLY careful about their separations and knowing where everyone is at all times.

They assign themselves different flight altitudes for each of the choppers covering an incident, and fly in pre-arranged formations to the left and right of the main pursuit - even if they goof badly during turns and get close horizontally, they've also (deliberately) got a hundred feet or more of vertical separation.

The police and fire choppers get the low-altitude slots at around

The cops need the lower altitudes to coordinate the chase by bare eyeballs, the news copters have nice long lenses on their gyro- stabilized cameras and can get good coverage from farther back.

And with all the restricted airspace over the runways and approach patterns at all the airports, it gets interesting - if the tower allows one news chopper to go through, they all pool off that feed.

Oh, and they often pool their coverage as the various copters take turns going for fuel on long pursuits and long running fire/police incidents. You don't push it in a plane or copter, forced landings are bad.

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I've heard there is full documentation about the car condition but have never seen or confirmed it myself. But even though it isn't widely discussed, it answers another piece of the puzzle - even if the driver was a bit sloshed the driving alone shouldn't account for the deaths - Mercedes are supposed to be built like bank vaults, right?

But if the car handling got squirrely at exactly the wrong time, you're going sideways at 70 MPH, which is never a good thing...

And then the bad welds on the chassis & body patched sections start unzipping as you're bouncing off the tunnel support pillars in the 'center divider' area, and I wouldn't be surprised if the previously damaged seatbelts weren't replaced and are failing too. And suddenly that nice safe passenger compartment isn't so nice and safe...

NASCAR, Indy Car and Formula One drivers walk away from wrecks that are much worse - but only when the tub (safety cage) stays in one piece around them, and they stay inside and securely buckled in place so the car can absorb the energy swirling around them.

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