Cool or sick?

http://lang.dailynews.com/socal/gall...1806_halloween

I can't decide...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Maybe I'm reading way too much into it, but I'm wondering what message he's
trying to send.

As an A&P is he saying flying isn't safe due to poor maintenance?
Is he trying to say to passengers "you have no control, you should feel
vulnerable when you fly?"
Is he trying to raise public awareness of some safety issue?

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".

I understand Halloween displays that say "this is what can happen if you
drink and drive" or "this is your brain on drugs", but I don't see this one
as a public service announcement.

As far as "cool", I think it would be cool if he had an airplane "parked" in
his yard. "Pilot lands safely in residence front yard, no reported
injuries." Yeah, you loose the gore factor, but you raise allot less
questions about your motive.

Jim

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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http://lang.dailynews.com/socal/gall...1806_halloween

I can't decide...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

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"

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"

"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.

I think it was more of a case of a guy who had some plane wreckage and a
really cool idea and didn't even bother to think through all of those
issues.
Unless he, say, read the usenet and was aware of all the different hangups
people have, it might not have ever occured to him. Halloween as millions of
people celebrate it is ABOUT creeping people out; mocking death, the devil,
things that scare us, whatever.

Most horror movies are about innocent people--women and teenagers,
mainly--being terrorized, tortured, murdered and hacked up in all sorts of
sadistic ways. Teenagers--the ones most often portrayed as the victims--eat
the stuff up. There's generally not much discussion of whether the director
had a grudge against kids or some other ulterior motive.

I forwarded the photo to a friend of mine who did a very similar thing with
some various junk, except instead of a plane wreck he had a UFO crash and
dead aliens scattered in his yard. Much better idea and far less likely to
offend. -c

I forwarded the photo to a friend of mine who did a very similar thing
with
some various junk, except instead of a plane wreck he had a UFO crash and
dead aliens scattered in his yard. Much better idea and far less likely
to
offend. -c

Now THAT is a more cool idea. Nobody has much sympathy for aliens.

Jim

"Jay Honeck" wrote in
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"


On the one hand, it doesn't really bother me. Plane crashes are a reality
of life, and I really don't think his message is to promote anti-aviation
sentiment. He made his version of a haunted house out of the parts that he
had readily available.

Admittedly, I didn't think it was all that cool either, though. Scrapyard
planes on the ground don't get me all that excited...

Admittedly, I didn't think it was all that cool either, though. Scrapyard
planes on the ground don't get me all that excited...

but a Gulfstream 5 is a lot cooler than a 172. If he wanted to be
really scary he coulda just put a Piper Traumahawk in his front yard.

wrote in message
oups.com...

Admittedly, I didn't think it was all that cool either, though.
Scrapyard
planes on the ground don't get me all that excited...

but a Gulfstream 5 is a lot cooler than a 172. If he wanted to be
really scary he coulda just put a Piper Traumahawk in his front yard.

Oh Man!

I remember the Tomahawk rether fondly--except for the anemic angle of climb.

Peter

Jay Honeck wrote:
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.

I personally am not offended, but that's mainly because it would take
an awful lot to offend me. As far as whether or not one can use
Halloween as an excuse for goofy displays like this, well, it sure as
heck beats all these displays I've noticed this year that put some of
the Christmas displays to shame... lit up, animatronics, figurines,
fake spider webs, the list goes on and on... and these are just the
houses I see on my normal commute every day. I can only imagine how
overboard the general populace is in the rest of the country when it
comes to Halloween. That's probably the scariest part of the holiday!


--
Guy