Plane crashes into building in Austin, Texas

[baracuda]

yall might be seeing this on your news, even more so now that more info has come out about the pilot of the plane.

he crashed in a building housing irs offices, set his house on fire before he took off in his plane, shortly after taking off he flew into austin and made a direct hit on the second floor of the irs building. now they have found a suicide note that he left on his own personal website. here is the link(its a long read, but very interesting) http://embeddedart.com/
here are some news reports with video and pics of the scene, they said so far they have only had to take 2 ppl to hospital and 1 unaccounted for.
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...y_a_plane.html
here is videos and pics of the scene and of his house he burnt down.
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/small-p...n-on-mopac-183

[MikeW]

I heard he stole the plane. Also that he set fire to his own house then crashed the plane.

[guitarplayer825]

Gaaaaarrrryyyyyy!


Edit: On a serious note, this isn't really funny. Suicide can be one of the most selfish things and I don't even know why some people would do it, it's terrible

[MikeW]

That's not funny. :|

[cb7pr]

yeah we are watching that here at work... Houston Center must be going crazy right now...

[s2kracer]

wow....so he crashed on purpose? so sad......why would anyone want to harm others in such a way? unbelievable

[ric3rboi23]

wow....so he crashed on purpose? so sad......why would anyone want to harm others in such a way? unbelievable

read his blog. he explains.

[MikeW]

IRS.

Need i say more?

[cb7pr]

IRS.

Need i say more?

criminal investigations division?

[Tnwagn]

While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.

This guy is a complete moron

If he had such an issue with the government why the hell did he stay here? Don't tell me that he didn't have the means by which to move to some other country. Honestly, I bet this guy could have lived anywhere in the world and would have ended up hating it equally to anywhere else.

[cb7pr]

i just read a small portion of his pre-suicide not, and yeah, definitely had something against IRS...thats horrible. Criminal Act against innocent people doing their jobs...no sympathy for the whatsover.

[MikeW]

That was an awesome read. I love people like him. Theyre the guys who have truly been screwed by the government and have the balls to stand up and so say. Its just a shame that no one will take this warning.

"We shall not be moved, except by a child with no socks and shoes."

The only thing i hate are the people who will say there's nothing we can do or who will say he was crazy or this, that or the other. Take the blindfold off, people. IF we can't do anything about it, we can at least stop kidding ourselves and admit that we live in a country with a shitty system where the way of life is taking from the poor, to feed the rich.

[MikeW]

Im not saying that what he did was justified, but is it not? The system, OUR system, essentially, kills people to get their point across. One man does the same thing, and all of a sudden, he's in the wrong?

I just think that instead of telling people, "If you dont like it, you can leave." we should at least be admitting that our system sucks and is being run poorly. If some admission of, "Yes, okay, we're not sure what we're doing and we ourselves dont even understand the system." I'd feel just tiny bit better, but such admission would drive people away.

And i think thats what's happened. Over the years, people have been elected and given the hand up, from above, based on "who you know" rather than "what you know" and these idiots, not being able to comprehend the ways of the original system, have just made things up as they've gone along and have added additions to new rules, laws and constitutional rights. All while getting paid to just look like they knew what they were doing.

Look at the Constitution. "The right to bear arms." When did that lose it's meaning? When it was written, it didnt mean "...with a license." "So long as you're not a felon." "So long as you dont hide it."

Yes, the world would be a grim, grizzly place if we still did things like we did back then, but we also had public execution too. When someone fucked up or broke the laws, they were made an example of, right in the middle of town, in plain sight. Bring that shit back. I bet crime rates would decrease.

I just think by turning a blind-eye to the way our system is ran, is wrong. It's like having a parent or friend that does drugs and is a total screw up, and your friends point that out and instead of saying, "Yeah, you're right, maybe we should try to help them." You just turn the other cheek and say, "That may be, but i still love them." It puts us in a difficult position and we dont wanna choose. We dont wanna admit that our love is a screw up.

I'd like to move to another country, just so i can "see how it is" but i dont ever see that happening. Not without years of putting up with it here. I guess all i can do is just sit in the shit and wollow and eventually i'll give back in and become a zombie again.

[JoshM]

Al-Qaeda.

[MikeW]

If only it were that simple.