I think this is a different kind of sick than the hand up out of the grave
yard type stuff. Even the screwballs walking around with fake hatchets in
their heads and fake blood dripping down their faces doesn't bother me...
sick? yep... but in a erie spooky kind of way where everything is anonymous
and we all know that the chances of that happening to us or those we know
are way below minimal.

On the other hand, we all fly. All of our families fly. All of our friends
fly. We all accept a certain amount of risk whenever we get aboard an
airplane, but we also feel a large amount of trust in the airline, the
pilot, the company, and the "system". I get the feeling that this guy is
saying that it could happen to any of us and that we shouldn't trust
something or somebody in aviation. It seems that he's saying that once we
get on that plane we no longer hold our fate in our hands and we simply
can't pull over and get out, which of course is true, but to victimize the
vulnerable isn't a Halloween joke, it's a perverse and weird kind of sick.
In a way, I think these are the same reasons that the media take such
perverse pleasure in exploiting every plane crash to the maximum.


Jim

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...
Since I can't figure it out, I'll stand on the side of "sick" for the
reason
that he takes a form of public transportation that most people trust the
representatives of that company with their lives and then says "this is
what
can happen to you if you fly".

Now you understand my question.

Personally, I can't decide whether I'm being hypersensitive to this, as
a pilot who has grown skittish about public scorn toward aviation, or
whether it really IS sick -- but I think it's sick, too.

On the other hand, I find most of the "hand sticking up out of the
ground" Halloween/grave-yard stuff to be sick, so maybe it's just me?
I've got plenty of friends who have gone to great lengths to scare
people, under the guise of "it's only Halloween"...which I find goofy.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"