Plane With DEA Agents Crash Onto Road That I Drive Down Every Day, Hit Cars That Don’t Belong To Me [UPDATE]

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09/19/2018 at 20:23 • Filed to: Planelopnik, Thanks Trump

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Planes fly over me all the damned time (including this morning) while I drive down the road, because it’s in the flight path of the local regional airport. Glad I didn’t leave work early today.

UPDATE: It turns out that I know the owner of the Tesla Model X that GOT HIT by the plane. I told my wife that I thought that I recognized the car, and she just called to confirm it belongs to a guy that we know/lives around the corner from us. He’s okay.

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Kinja'd!!! Jayvincent > PatBateman
09/19/2018 at 19:23

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Place is called SugarLand... shouldn’t be difficult for DEA agents to find something to investigate, right?


Kinja'd!!! PatBateman > Jayvincent
09/19/2018 at 19:26

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Funny story: there’s a park between this road and the airport runway that has some areas that are hard to get to (wetlands).  Some guys had a very large marijuana farm in there until it was discovered by a pilot flying over. 


Kinja'd!!! DipodomysDeserti > PatBateman
09/19/2018 at 19:30

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I worked near a small airport for about ten years. The street I drive on is right in front of the runway. There’s a flight school there and I’ve rolled up on two crashes right on the street. Last one, about a month ago, was right in front of an FBI building. Here’s one from a few years ago.

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Kinja'd!!! E90M3 > PatBateman
09/19/2018 at 20:25

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I spent the first week in the working world in Sugar Land. 


Kinja'd!!! Just Jeepin' > Jayvincent
09/19/2018 at 20:29

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I nearly got killed by a song I like called Sugarland.

(Ok, a bit of a stretch, but not entirely untruthful.)

I love the song, and I was at the Indiana State Fair a few years ago. I saw there would be a band that evening also called Sugarland, completely unrelated to the song, but it piqued my interest.

Finally decided I didn’t feel like hanging out at the fair long enough to see a band I had no particular interest in other than the coincidental name.

Then this happened.


Kinja'd!!! CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Just Jeepin'
09/19/2018 at 21:31

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Jeeesus


Kinja'd!!! Just Jeepin' > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/19/2018 at 21:49

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Yeah, it was rough on everyone.

To add to the misery, a n impromptu memorial was created outside the grandstand, with photos and other personal notes.

The memorial was right next to the state lottery’s booth, with all the tackiness that implies.

I’m still baffled as to why the lottery didn’t close down their booth out of respect for the victims. Such an odd and unpleasant juxtaposition.


Kinja'd!!! PatBateman > E90M3
09/19/2018 at 22:05

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I live here.  It ain’t too bad.  Lots of cultural diversity.