What, autos are fun too...
For one, your username checks out. For two, you sure have REALLY strong emotions about this subject.
I don’t care that they destroyed the truck - they can do that if they want. But to leave it out there (assuming) with fluids leaking on the ground and cut two healthy trees down just to crush it...that’s unnecessary. I hope they at least cleaned up the trees and used the wood.
Beyond the fact that they could have sold it for a couple grand even in iffy condition, this makes me want to cry. I mean, I looked for a truck of this vintage, and I couldn’t touch one that moved under its own power for less than 3K.
A Sheriff’s department deputy wasn’t entirely certain a crime has been committed, and stated: “If we are looking into something, we need a victim. We don’t have a victim.”
When it comes to air traffic the definition of “close” (as well as the word “incident”) is very, very different than say, a near miss fender-bender. Air-traffic-control wise this is a pretty serious fuck-up not only because he came that close to an airliner, but because he’s in the wrong place altogether.
