GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- A woman hit in the head by a small plane at Lee Gilmer Airport is recovering.
Police Lieutenant Brian Kelly says 72-year-old William Hohns of Acworth was the pilot of the plane that hit 41-year-old Amy Dunahoo. Kelly says the left wing of the plane struck the woman when she stepped into its path as the 1977 Piper was taxiing for takeoff Sunday. At least it wasn't a helicopter
She was airlifted to North Fulton Hospital and is reported to be in good condition. No word as to where her luggage was airlifted
It's in Houston.
Kelly says it's the first time he's seen a pedestrian-airplane accident. The Consumer Product Safety Commision today has stated that it is considering either requiring aircraft manufactureres to make the wings from Nerf materail or install horns on aircraft
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OK, here's the stupidest part of this story. I know there's not a lot of late model Super Cubs so most of the Pipers in 1977 were low wings (Archer, Warrior, Seneca). I looked up the guys A/C registration and sure enough this plane is a low wing Archer. So tell me how this happens:
A woman hit in the head by a small plane at Lee Gilmer Airport is recovering.
The lady must have been crawling around on the taxiway otherwise it would have hit her in the leg. Maybe its like that David Hasselhoff video.
Man using shotgun on stubborn lug nut injured today's idiot?
Today's idiot.
A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's deputies said. "gol' dammit, come loose, yoo sumbitch!"
The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home northwest of Southworth, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southwest of Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear wheel by Saturday afternoon, Deputy Scott Wilson said.
"He's bound and determined to get that lug nut off," Wilson said. now he's bound, bandaged, and determined..
From about arm's length, the man fired the shotgun at the wheel and was "peppered" in both legs with buckshot and debris, with some injuries as high as his chin, according to a sheriff's office report. "Nobody else was there and he wasn't intoxicated," Wilson said. uh huh
The man was taken to Tacoma General Hospital with injuries Wilson described as severe but not life-threatening.
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That's the problem with the newer steel shot, no penetration. The older lead shot would have worked, no doubt.
Probably used too small a shot-size, too ('peppered' isn't really a term used with the larger sizes). "Upland Bird Shot" is not as effective on metal parts as good old 00 Buck. Since he's from the Tacoma area, not known as a 'hunter's paradise' due to the wingbats in gubbermint there, he might not have known the difference (nor would the newswriter).
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And now, of course, the most important question...did he get the lug nut off?
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Idiot, when you have a stuck lugnut, you put the rest of the lugnuts back on, tighten them down, Especially the two directly beside the stuck nut (Relieves pressure on the stuck nut) THEN try lostening it, and get the rest when it's loose.
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Once had an oil filter which, I swear, was fused to the engine block. I bought the car used and don't think the oil had ever been changed - took over a week to get the damn thing off.
Never would have thought about using the shotgun on it.
And thanks for the tip Redneck - I'll remember that.
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Another technique, using the T type lug nut changer - position it such that you're pulling up with your hand while pushing down on the opposite side with your foot.
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I broke my lug wrench on a tight lug nut (alloy wheels - best to use a torque wrench putting the nuts on) a couple of years ago. Had to walk several miles in the dark to get to a functioning phone (since I am the last living American without a cell phone.)
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Doesn't this remind you of the old Bill Mauldin cartoon?
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Spray WD40 into the lug nut using a can of compressed air, and let it sit for an hour or so. Works wonders. May take two or three applications, but it's never failed me before.
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Use a nut cracker. Never fails! Of course...the nuts hosed afterwards.
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And when you put lugnuts on, always put a drop or two of oil on the threads (Any good oil will do, trans fluid works well,NO IT WILL NOT MAKE THEM COME OFF, but it helps a great bit when next removed)
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#15 Use a nut cracker. Never fails! Of course...the nuts hosed afterwards.
A nut cracker can't be used, there's no room, your lugnut is tapered on the wheelside, and will not cleanly shear. You'll wind up either destroying the wheel, or have to remove the remains with an air chisel, (Big mess, scars up the wheel seriously)
It's actualy better to shear the stud off, they're easily replaced.
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#5 Once had an oil filter which, I swear, was fused to the engine block. I bought the car used and don't think the oil had ever been changed - took over a week to get the damn thing off.
Filters that seem "Glued" to the block, ARE Glued to the block, happens when the installer did NOT run a oily finger over the rubber gasket, (No Oil equals siezed rubber, Heat does it)
If you're desperate, drive a large screwdriver through the filter and turn that like a handle (Makes a mess, but works)
Be sure to oil your new filter's gasket, NOT GREASE.
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SO its NOT Hindu man makes up for sin by marrying dog, ala FREEREPUBLIC - "Twis actually a "two-in-one" since the same article also describes a nine-year-old girl marrying a dog. AS MUCH AS I LIKE TO RESPECT THE BELIEFS OF OTHERS I HAVE NO IDEA -ZILCH - ON HOW TO COMPREHEND/RESPOND TO FR'S ARTICLE.
Sorry for submitting this story late. My mom's cousin who was a Medic, sent this to me other day and I wanted to re-read it again before posting.
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13)
Im Sgt. Helles brother. How is he? asked Rogers twin brother, Ron, also an E-5, USMC. Im sorry son, but your brother is going to die, the physician responded tersely. That was July 1970, China Beach, Vietnam.
My friend Roger Helle was 17 years old when he joined the Marine Corps. The product of a broken home (http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=537), he was very insecure and hoped becoming a Marine would provide him the confidence he lacked.
In February 1966, five months into his first 13-month tour in Vietnam, Rogers unit was searching for Viet Cong around Gia Le. Roger had walked point for patrols during the previous four months and had been shot once, so his intuition about the enemys presence was acutely tuned.
Over There and Gone Forever
By RICHARD RUBIN
Published: November 12, 2007
BY any conceivable measure, Frank Buckles has led an extraordinary life. Born on a farm in Missouri in February 1901, he saw his first automobile in his hometown in 1905, and his first airplane at the Illinois State Fair in 1907. At 15 he moved on his own to Oklahoma and went to work in a bank; in the 1940s, he spent more than three years as a Japanese prisoner of war. When he returned to the United States, he married, had a daughter and bought a farm near Charles Town, W. Va., where he lives to this day. He drove a tractor until he was 104.
But even more significant than the remarkable details of Mr. Buckless life is what he represents: Of the two million soldiers the United States sent to France in World War I, he is the only one left.
This Veterans Day marked the 89th anniversary of the armistice that ended that war. The holiday, first proclaimed as Armistice Day by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 and renamed in 1954 to honor veterans of all wars, has become, in the minds of many Americans, little more than a point between Halloween and Thanksgiving when banks are closed and mail isnt delivered. But theres a good chance that this Veterans Day will prove to be the last with a living American World War I veteran. (Mr. Buckles is one of only three left; the other two were still in basic training in the United States when the war ended.) Ten died in the last year. The youngest of them was 105.
At the end of his documentary The War, Ken Burns notes that 1,000 World War II veterans are dying every day. Their passing is being observed at all levels of American society; no doubt you have heard a lot about them in recent days. Fortunately, World War II veterans will be with us for some years yet. There is still time to honor them. But the passing of the last few veterans of the First World War is all but complete, and has gone largely unnoticed here.
Perhaps we shouldnt be surprised. Almost from the moment the armistice took effect, the United States has worked hard, it seems, to forget World War I; maybe thats because more than 100,000 Americans never returned from it, lost for a cause that few can explain even now. The first few who did come home were given ticker-tape parades, but most returned only to silence and a good bit of indifference.
There was no G.I. Bill of Rights to see that they got a college education or vocational training, a mortgage or small-business loan. There was nothing but what remained of the lives they had left behind a year or two earlier, and the hope that they might eventually be able to return to what President Warren Harding, Wilsons successor, would call normalcy. Prohibition, isolationism, the stock market bubble and the crisis in farming made that hard; the Great Depression, harder still.
A few years ago, I set out to see if I could find any living American World War I veterans. No one not the Department of Veterans Affairs, or the Veterans of Foreign Wars, or the American Legion knew how many there were or where they might be. As far as I could tell, no one much seemed to care, either.
Eventually, I did find some, including Frank Buckles, who was 102 when we first met. Eighty-six years earlier, hed lied about his age to enlist. The Army sent him to England but, itching to be near the action, he managed to get himself sent on to France, though never to the trenches.
After the armistice, he was assigned to guard German prisoners waiting to be repatriated. Seeing that he was still just a boy, the prisoners adopted him, taught him their language, gave him food from their Red Cross packages, bits of their uniforms to take home as souvenirs.
In the 1930s, while working for a steamship company, Mr. Buckles visited Germany; it was difficult for him to reconcile his fond memories of those old P.O.W.s with what he saw of life under the Third Reich. The steamship company later sent him to run its office in Manila; he was there in January 1942 when the Japanese occupied the city and took him prisoner. At some point during his 39 months in captivity, he contracted beriberi, which affects his sense of balance even now, almost 63 years after he was liberated by the 11th Airborne Division.
Nevertheless, he carries with aplomb the burden of being the last of his kind. For a long time Ive felt that there should be more recognition of the surviving veterans of World War I, he tells me; now that group is, more or less, him. How does he feel about that? Someone has to do it, he says blithely, but adds: It kind of startles you.
Four years ago, I attended a Veterans Day observance in Orleans, Mass. Near the head of the parade, a 106-year-old named J. Laurence Moffitt rode in a Japanese sedan, waving to the small crowd of onlookers and sporting the same helmet he had been wearing in the Argonne Forest at the moment the armistice took effect, 85 years earlier.
I didnt know it then, but that was, in all likelihood, the last small-town American Veterans Day parade to feature a World War I veteran. The years since have seen the passing of one last after another the last combat-wounded veteran, the last Marine, the last African-American, the last Yeomanette until, now, we are down to the last of the last.
Its hard for anyone, I imagine, to say for certain what it is that we will lose when Frank Buckles dies. Its not that World War I will then become history; its been history for a long time now. But it will become a different kind of history, the kind we cant quite touch anymore, the kind that will, from that point on, always be just beyond our grasp somehow. We cant stop that from happening. But we should, at least, take notice of it.
Richard Rubin, the author of Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South, is at work on a book about Americas involvement in World War I.
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See also WAFF.com > BATTLE FOR THE SOLDIERS'MEMORIAL. Repairs for US Tomb of the Unknowns + Monument. ALso, NOT ENOUGH SPACE LEFT FOR VETERANS IN NATIONAL CEMETARIES.
PRINCE Harry's romance with Chelsy Davy is on the rocks, with the Zimbabwean-born university student ready to leave Britain.
Davy is believed to be heading to Cape Town because she cannot get used to the freezing autumn weather in Leeds, where she recently began a law degree. The 22-year-old is reported to have had problems making friends in Leeds since moving there two months ago and has been worried about her safety. Her three-year relationship with the 23-year-old prince has cooled, with Davy said to be unhappy with his playboy lifestyle and lack of commitment to their relationship.
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If that is her picture - what does her replacement look like?
MADISON, Wis. - A police officer has been reprimanded for accidentally discharging a Taser, causing an injury to the police officer. Madison police released a report Monday on the July 31 incident, without revealing the officer's name or gender. The department said the Taser accidentally discharged during a standard checkout procedure.
According to a summary of the investigation, officers are required to make sure no air cartridges are loaded before testing the Taser gun at the start of each shift. It's the air cartridges that propel the Taser's prongs, which deliver a jolt of electricity when they strike a target. The officer's hand was injured, police spokesman Joel DeSpain said.
A letter of reprimand was issued because failing to ensure the air cartridge wasn't loaded was a violation of department policy, the report said. Barney Fife would be proud!
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Given the way the laws go in this country and how common sense is less and less a part of determining their application, could the officer sue the Madison PD for excessive force or something?
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He/she could probably sue because they didn't warn him/her strongly enough to make sure that there were no air cartridges in the Taser before testing it.
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FREEREPUBLIC > SOLAR ACTIVITY, EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELDS, AND GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS AFFECT/CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING. D *** NGED GRAVITY/EM BANDS [Comet Holmes?] are confuding the Roos. Yet another reason for the OWG-SWO to build a Picard-ian or Nexian Sun/Star-destroying missle in order to save the earth.
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Tie me Kangaroo down, Sport, tie me Kangaroo down.
Mind me Platypus Duck, Bill, mind me Platypus Duck.
Don't let 'im run amok, Bill, mind me Platypus Duck.
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Big kangaroos are very fast and zigzag unpredictably. Obviously an evolutionary response to a fast big cat like hunter. Yet there is no record of such a predator in Australia.
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When all else fails, but a heavily furnished heavily converted A380 "flying palace", ala OUR FRIENDS THE SAUDIS [Little Green Footballs/LGF.com]. D *** NG IT, ITS ONLY US$10.0Bilyuhn???
...Two grade-school-age boys and a toddler were among the people in the path of the trucks Friday, a development that Bjornstad said was quite disturbing and quite appalling, in my opinion. Police want to ensure the safety of the protesters, should they have to be removed, and police were not prepared for safely removing children Friday, he said.
Were going to have to figure out how to address that issue, Bjornstad said...
Olympia Mayor Mark Foutch released a written statement Sunday that said any reports of excessive police force that are filed with the city will be thoroughly and impartially investigated. But he said police reported that some demonstrators have acted in ways that exceeded their rights to use public roads for political expression. And he said demonstrators need to express their opinions in ways that do not block the public rights-of-way for unreasonable periods and to respond promptly to lawful requests and orders of police officers on the scene.
Between 30 and 40 officers worked Sunday as a result of the protests, said Dick Machlan, Olympia police administrative services manager.
Olympia police got additional support from Lacey, Tumwater and Thurston County law enforcement agencies. The additional staffing needed for such protests can cost the city of Olympia between $2,000 and $15,000, Machlan said. Its so dependent on the individual event, he said.
The latest port protest could end up being on the more expensive end if additional police are needed to work today because its the observed Veterans Day holiday, Machlan said. That means working staff members earn one-and-a-half times their typical wage.
The confrontations Sunday began after about 8:45 a.m., when protesters began marching back and forth across Franklin Street at the Market Street intersection. As 18-wheelers towing cargo began rolling down Market Street about five minutes later, two protesters lay down in the road, creating a human blockade.
Police officers sprayed both with pepper spray. Another caravan of vehicles began leaving the port about 9:45 a.m., prompting protesters to run out ahead of the vehicles. Police arrested at least one man who witnesses said was in the road and later arrested two others. Those arrested on suspicion of violating the citys pedestrian interference ordinance were Joshua Elliott, Montgomery Gondolfi and Luke Noble, according to Olympia City Jail.
I advise all here to note that this crap results from a very-very small group of moonbats, students from Evergreen College and dregs from Seattle assisted by a lame duck city councilman, T J Johnson.
There are more people standing in line at the many local Starbucks right now than attended this demo.
With very little effort it would be possible to run a counter demo of hundreds, if not thousands of people from this area. The question is, are they worth it?
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Yeah, it's easy to solve, Child Services take the kids, the parents get executed for treason in a time of war for attempted sabotage of the supply line to the troops.
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As 18-wheelers towing cargo began rolling down Market Street about five minutes later, two protesters lay down in the road, creating a human blockade.
THUMP...THUMP
What was that, Mike?
Dunno. I think it was either speed bumps or a human blockade...
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Protesting is one thing. You want to go run out in front of an 18-wheeler with the misguided notion that semi-trucks (and DC9 cats) magically endow their drivers with the ability to see through steel hoods (and bulldozer blades) go right ahead.
Placing (and teaching) small children to do so is irresponsible and negligent.
What is the legal definition of child abuse and neglect? [1]
Washington State law defines child abuse or neglect as follows: Child abuse or neglect shall mean the injury, sexual abuse, or negligent treatment or maltreatment of a child by any person under circumstances which indicate that the childs health, welfare and safety is harmed thereby. (RCW 26.44.020)
Negligence is further defined: Negligent treatment or maltreatment shall mean an act or omission which evinces a serious disregard of consequences of such magnitude as to constitute a clear and present danger to the childs health, welfare and safety. (RCW 26.44.020)
Clearly the person or persons who brought the children to this protest as well as the parents and guardians who allowed the exploitation and reckless endangerment of these children should be facing criminal charges.
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Looks like they should be charged with Child Endangerment at least.
Yup, positioning a child in an active lane of traffic certainly qualifies for that.
So, just like the jihadis.
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner! Ahmadinejad's sought after convergence with the left's "global progressive front" is yielding up an obscene crossover in practices. One can only wonder when it will decline to the level of Arafat surrounding himself with little boys schoolchildren. It speaks volumes that the leftists feel so threatened that they have begun to use their own children as human shields. Maybe they were afraid of getting the Brian Willson treatment.
NEW DELHI: A monkey which had attacked more than 25 people in an east Delhi locality over the weekend was caught on Tuesday morning, much to the relief of the frightened residents. "The marauding simian was caught from Shastri Park area with the help of a monkey-catcher.
It will be released in Asola area soon," an MCD spokesperson said in New Delhi. The monkey had gone on a rampage in the area on Saturday night attacking more than 25 people including children, creating terror among the residents. One of the victims is still battling for life in a hospital. The victims included many children.
Though baton-wielding residents kept a vigil in the area to catch the monkey, their efforts were wasted. It took two days for the municipal staff to catch the monkey.
Last month, Delhi's Deputy Mayor met with a tragic end after he fell down from the first floor of his residence after being attacked by a monkey.
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License to kill gophers monkeys by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers monkeys at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint monkey. And a varmint monkey will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Monkey Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote...
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They don't have guns?
Seems a perfect job for a twelve guage.
(Twelve bore for you brits)
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- A woman hit in the head by a small plane at Lee Gilmer Airport is recovering.
Man using shotgun on stubborn lug nut injured
PRINCE Harry's romance with Chelsy Davy is on the rocks, with the Zimbabwean-born university student ready to leave Britain.
MADISON, Wis. - A police officer has been reprimanded for accidentally discharging a Taser, causing an injury to the police officer. Madison police released a report Monday on the July 31 incident, without revealing the officer's name or gender. The department said the Taser accidentally discharged during a standard checkout procedure.
