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geeman
02-19-2007, 12:53 PM
CNN showing a piece on an ultralite pilot that hit and got stuck in the ONLY tree in the area apparently today.
Dan McCosh
02-19-2007, 01:00 PM
Of course he hit the only tree in the area. He had no other choice.
geeman
02-19-2007, 01:06 PM
Well in that case, I guess his aim was dead on,,,,,,,,,almost
Nanoose
02-19-2007, 01:08 PM
dead on, or just plain dead?
geeman
02-19-2007, 01:12 PM
He was moving when they pulled him outa the tree, no word on his full condition tho.I imagine he's feelin a bit silly right about now,,,,
Andrew Craig-Bennett
02-19-2007, 01:26 PM
On Lavan Island, a large, rather un-attractive, bit of Iran's Arabian Gulf coastline, there is, or was, a single lamp post.

I know a man who drove a car into it. :D
Phillip Allen
02-19-2007, 01:28 PM
I thought Narnia was the place with a single lamp post
Nanoose
02-19-2007, 01:59 PM
On Lavan Island, a large, rather un-attractive, bit of Iran's Arabian Gulf coastline, there is, or was, a single lamp post.

I know a man who drove a car into it. :D

idiot
paladin
02-19-2007, 02:06 PM
Now, of course they're gonna blame it on the tree and have it cut down.....:D
carioca1232001
02-19-2007, 03:47 PM
...On Lavan Island, a large, rather un-attractive, bit of Iran's Arabian Gulf coastline...

Ugly and barren too is the coastline of Pakistanīs Baluchistan State that leads to Iranīs, dotted with the coastal towns of Gwadar and Somiani.

Youīd need to be really lucky to find even a (dead) tree stump in this region.
boylesboats
02-19-2007, 03:56 PM
Now why did he flew into the tree in the first place?
paladin
02-19-2007, 04:05 PM
because it was there!:D
boylesboats
02-19-2007, 04:10 PM
It just there....LOL
Ric_Bergstrom
02-19-2007, 06:41 PM
The human body is designed to go where you look....guess we all know what he was looking at.
botebum
02-19-2007, 07:00 PM
Word from the wife is that it happened in NC.
Just to let ya'll know. I was at work. I can't fly a plane(although apparentely, neither could he) and I don't do aerial stunts(outside of certain, windowless, rooms in the house).

Doug
boylesboats
02-19-2007, 08:22 PM
Save the tree, charge the pilot!!!
stumpbumper
02-19-2007, 09:21 PM
The human body is designed to go where you look....guess we all know what he was looking at.

There was nothing else to look at.
geeman
02-19-2007, 11:54 PM
Well , at least I hope he wasnt hurt too badly.
bagpiper
02-20-2007, 10:31 PM
Well , at least I hope he wasnt hurt too badly.

The tree?
seafox
02-21-2007, 09:17 PM
in the ginnis book of world records one listing was for the worlds lonely-est tree. in the lybian desert a single tree lives 31 miles from the next closest tree... in about 1961 a frenchman driving a mand rover in a sand storm drove into the tree
Andrew Craig-Bennett
02-22-2007, 08:48 AM
That sent me into Google, Seafox, and here's what I found:

http://naturenet.net/blogs/index.php/2007/01/18/tenere
P.I. Stazzer-Newt
02-22-2007, 09:09 AM
The human body is designed to go where you look....guess we all know what he was looking at.

Yup - long time ago I got roped into running a motorcycle training scheme.

We had the use of an M.O.D. car park of about 5 acres, free of all traffic - except for a public footpath at one end.

I launched a beginner with instructions on how to stop - and at the same time a pedestrian hove into view travelling directly across the vision of the novice....

I had never seen a panic stop done in slo-mo before, nor a pedestrian quite so frightened.

Didn't ever see that beginner again either.

My father in law - has a thirty five acre field - with a single telegraph pole - its been there all his life.

He hit it with a plough.