she ran outside and went up to the survivors and said "You're a cab!" and walked away? weird.

If that had happened where I lived the quote would have been, "It sounded like a big ole goddamn freight train"

Tornadoes, bombs, thunder, everything loud in Alabama sounds like a big ole goddamn freight train.

Barnacles!: she ran outside and went up to the survivors and said "You're a cab!" and walked away? weird.

I can't believe you beat me to this.

Barnacles!

Were they LOST?!?!?

Hobo Jr.: If that had happened where I lived the quote would have been, "It sounded like a big ole goddamn freight train"

Tornadoes, bombs, thunder, everything loud in Alabama sounds like a big ole goddamn freight train.

Except, surprisingly enough, a big 'ole goddamn freight train.

Get off my lawn!

DonSlice:
sigh. There's always one.

Don't they call this phenomenon "truth will find a voice?"

Actually, the family in the plane called the taxi. I know, I know, reading the article and all that, silly me.

Well . . . hm.

A cab company is more likely to have someone in the area, so if they just need to get to a hospital fast, then good call. Except, if they need to get to a hospital fast, they probably need medical treatment ASAP, which a cabbie can't provide.

So, e for effort, I guess, or creativity? I got nothin.

/saturday night work is boring

and their 14-year-old daughter from Liberty, Texas

Do they have 14-year-old daughters from other cities?

I think that the survivors are real Americans, showing that good old "Can do" spirit. "Screw this, I'm not waiting for a five hundred dollar ambulance ride, I'll just take a cab to the hospital." Reminds me of our old school fathers, who would duct tape a finger that they just severed with a band saw and drive themselves to the 'mergency room.

"The fire shot through my plug on my computer."

Yes. Yes it did.

"I talked to the pilot and he said he had left the runway and lost the engine in the air and came down through the power lines and landed right there where he was at."

I completely lost it when I heard that gay say "landed right there where he was at." I have no idea why.

Then milk shot out of my nose.

Ah, yeah, minor injuries. Then, A++ for cab ride over an ambulance.

Though, I might say, as long as you're not paying for it (and after a plane crash, you're probably not), I think walking away from a downed plane warrants an ambulance ride. If only to dick around with the gear in the back.

If you fine an airplane in your yard can you keep it?

But where did she bury the survivors?

baka-san: Hobo Jr.: If that had happened where I lived the quote would have been, "It sounded like a big ole goddamn freight train"

Tornadoes, bombs, thunder, everything loud in Alabama sounds like a big ole goddamn freight train.

Except, surprisingly enough, a big 'ole goddamn freight train.

...which is usually described as sounding like a roaring steel tornado or something.

/dated a chick from Alabama, once. She was a real hoot, boy. A real hoot... and she sounded like a big 'ole goddamn freight train when she... well, you know ;)

NakedApe: If you fine an airplane in your yard can you keep it?

Only if it don't pay the fine.

Slick Nick:

I completely lost it when I heard that gay say "landed right there where he was at." I have no idea why.

How do you know he was gay?

Anyone notice the poll question in the sidebar?

Are you a parent who is still supporting and paying bills for adult children?

()Yes
()No

This is sure to yield some useful statistical data.

spleendingo: Slick Nick:

I completely lost it when I heard that gay say "landed right there where he was at." I have no idea why.

How do you know he was gay?

The Patrick Swayze-centaur tatt kind of gave it away....

Slick Nick: "I talked to the pilot and he said he had left the runway and lost the engine in the air and came down through the power lines and landed right there where he was at."

I completely lost it when I heard that gay say "landed right there where he was at." I have no idea why.

I'm glad you translated that for me, I didn't catch it all the first time.

/Boomhauer

balthan: and their 14-year-old daughter from Liberty, Texas

Do they have 14-year-old daughters from other cities?

The Subby already did the purposefully-misunderstanding-syntax gag.

It's no big deal that the called a taxi: the cabbie was Reverend Jim Ignatowski.

Hobo Jr.: If that had happened where I lived the quote would have been, "It sounded like a big ole goddamn freight train"

Tornadoes, bombs, thunder, everything loud in Alabama sounds like a big ole goddamn freight train.

Oh, man I LOL'd.

/grew up in the south

"...somebody call me a cab. Hell if I'm gonna bleed to death waitin on a got damned amalance..."

/I know, nothing is obscure on Fark

Anyone notice the poll question in the sidebar?

Are you a parent who is still supporting and paying bills for adult children?

Yes I am

spleendingo: Slick Nick:

I completely lost it when I heard that gay say "landed right there where he was at." I have no idea why.

How do you know he was gay?

Freudian slip?

what happened?

/dnrtfa
//i just took a cab home so i'm getting a kick etc etc

Slick Nick: "I talked to the pilot and he said he had left the runway and lost the engine in the air and came down through the power lines and landed right there where he was at."

I completely lost it when I heard that gay say "landed right there where he was at." I have no idea why.



"If one of these engines fails, how far will the other one take us?"
"All the way to the scene of the crash. Which is pretty handy, 'cause that's where we're headed."

a cab would be twice as quick with a tenth of the price in my neck of the woods.. insurance probably wouldn't cover the cab fare tho. welcome to america.

lasercannon But where did she bury the survivors?

I see what you did there....

may have either lost power or didn't gain enough altitude, troopers said.

That would tend to cover the basic reasons why planes crash. Had it gained enough altitude, one assumes, it would not have been low enough to impact the ground.

Mighty fine investigative work there, Lou.

Obviously there was no plane, and this is a conspiracy by the govt. She said she heard an explosion, that proves that it was a terrorist truck bomb and not a plane.

Obviously.

lasercannon: But where did she bury the survivors?

In Grant's tomb?

Mole Man: lasercannon: But where did she bury the survivors?

In Grant's tomb?

In TSA red tape. Until these poor bastards clear the terminal, they can't carry scissors or more than 5 ounces of liquid and they have to walk around with their shoes off.

Hobo Jr.: Tornadoes, bombs, thunder, everything loud in Alabama TEXAS sounds like a big ole goddamn freight train.

FTFY...I understand just how close those two look to each other.

/Mumbles something about "No Child Left Behind"

"The fire shot through my plug on my computer."

unlikely.



I wouldn't mind seeing more of Lindsay Landry tho.

I'd crash my plane into that reporter, if you know what I mean.

No?

I mean I'd have sex with her.

You did the right thing, boyeeeee

Ok, I'm confused. How did the fire shoot through her computer plug? Is this some sort of anti-Canadian slang?

They probably didn't want to deal with half an hour of the paramedics convincing them they need to take three ambulance rides to the hospital at only $200 per mile. If your life isn't in danger, find another way there.

/speaking from personal experience. I swear the paramedics in this city are merely salesmen in uniform.

domenad: I think that the survivors are real Americans, showing that good old "Can do" spirit. "Screw this, I'm not waiting for a five hundred dollar ambulance ride, I'll just take a cab to the hospital." Reminds me of our old school fathers, who would duct tape a finger that they just severed with a band saw and drive themselves to the 'mergency room.

My soon-to-be father-in-law did that once. Didn't even leave a note for the wife and kids, just left the bloody miter box and skipped off to the hospital. He came back with some stitches and discovered his family had completely freaked out over it. His response, as an engineer, was to install a notepad in his workshop, for all those 'Severed own fingertip, gone to hospital,' needs.

My own dad only hurt himself with a power tool once, but it was a faulty nailgun, so still serious. He let me drive him to the hospital, which was very sensible, except for the part where I was twelve at the time. His hand was pretty bad and after hearing him cry out trying to start the car, I asked if I could drive him, and, well...

I did alright, the hospital was only about five miles away and almost a straight-shot with no left turns. Dad got the nail removed, a tetanus shot, antibiotics and some pain pills, and he would have held off taking the pills until he had driven us home, but the nurse told him to take the Percocet, whereupon he explained that he had his car there and had to get home somehow. She asked how in the hell he had gotten to the hospital with a nail running diagonally through his hand.

Coolly, he replied, "My daughter drove me."

"Can't she drive you back?"

"It was an emergency, she really shouldn't be-"

"Oh, well, if she's still on her permit, she can drive with you in the car, even if you have taken Percocet. Take the pills."

At that moment I appeared with a can of root beer I had bought for Daddy in the waiting room. The nurse looked at me for a second, blinked, and then asked me how old I was. I looked at Dad, like, 'Should I lie?' and he replied "Eleven."

"...Sir, where do you live?" He told her. "...Is there anyone you can call?" Mom was still at work for another three hours, he explained, and he would have to pick her up anyway, plus my siblings were still at a friend's birthday party. The nurse looked at me like I had a second head and then said "Excuse me a minute."

She came back with her keys and asked where Mom worked. Then she called Mom's boss and told him exactly how badly my Dad was injured and that she would be there in ten minutes to get Mom to take us home, in that Scary Nurse Tone that even theatre directors fear. She made Dad take the Percocet, confiscated his keys, and went off to get my Mom.

On the way, she told Mom how Dad had come to arrive at the hospital, and out of what I'm fairly certain was a complete heat-jamming of my mother's brain, I managed to escape the whole affair without punishment. She made Dad file suit against the manufacturers of the nailgun (the guard had split suddenly mid-fire, hence the accident,) and they paid a settlement that covered the hospital bills and a little left over. I didn't even see a set of car keys again until driving age, as it was clear to Mom's thinking that once the twelve-year-old knows she can operate the Chevy, there is nothing to stop her from heading off on her own errands, so she installed a locking doohickey that only let her and Dad get their keys. "And," she said, brandishing the electric drill, "I didn't hurt myself putting the damn thing up!"

Maybe she and Dad were proud of me for it, though -they put most of the leftover money into a ten-year CD for me to buy a car after college with. It matures pretty soon, but I've got a car. I think I'll reinvest it for their retirement.

It may seem wierd to call a cab after a plane wreck but if their injuries were minor it makes perfect sense. Even a short ambulance ride will cost you $5,000 or so. If you don't have 100% coverage through medical insurance then it is wise to find other means of getting to the hospital (assuming your injuries are clearly minor). My mother, who is in her mid 60s, had a somewhat similar situation recent. She tripped and fell while shopping and broke an ankle and a wrist. The security people for the shopping mall wanted to call her an ambulance but she basically said "fark no, a broken bone aint gonna kill me. I will just wait for my husband to pick me up." My father picked her up in a half hour or so and drove her to the hospital. I dont know what their insurance covers by my guess is it isnt 100% of ambulance rides.

Woman then calls 911. Just kidding, she called the survivors a cab

Well, this is the post-911 world now.

Ambulances arnt cheap. The per mile fee alone is like ten times that of a taxi. Your still out a grand when you've got great insurance.

lasercannon: But where did she bury the survivors?

You only have to worry about that on the border.

CTaylor80: Well . . . hm.

A cab company is more likely to have someone in the area, so if they just need to get to a hospital fast, then good call. Except, if they need to get to a hospital fast, they probably need medical treatment ASAP, which a cabbie can't provide.


That really depends on a LOT of different factors.

The last 3 places I've lived, the ambulance was a LOT closer than any cab. 5-10 minute response max. A cab? I'm lucky if I can get one in 30 minutes.

She sounds sweet. Clean her, lube her and send her over, there will be 8 bills on the table as usual.