By lex, on October 26th, 2011
What goes around comes around:
A group of several dozen “Occupy Las Vegas” protesters camping on Clark County land located under the final approach to Runway 19 at McCarran International Airport today narrowly missed being injured when a 50 lb. slab of “blue ice” reportedly landed within feet of their tents.
According to witnesses, the slab fell to earth seconds after Air Force One passed overhead while landing.
Blue ice is the frozen material formed by leaks in commercial aircraft lavatory waste tanks, a mixture of human waste and vivid blue liquid disinfectant that freezes at high altitude. The ice generally dissipates long before the aircraft lands, but there have been documented cases of blue ice clinging to aircraft surfaces until the aircraft reaches warmer air on approach to landing, then the ice may separate from the aircraft and fall to earth.
Clark County Director of Aviation Randall Walker was immediately notified and dispatched airport personnel to the campsite, but witnesses report that the blue ice had melted by the time officials arrived leaving only a smelly brown residue.
I’m glad no one was hurt.
Although unfortunately I came across Neptunus Lex after his accident, one of the pleasures – for Lex and the readers, was the lively conversations from the readers and Lex. I wanted to leave this – the original comments from the defunct web site, for posterity – Ed .
October 26th, 2011 | Tags: Small Stuff | Category: Small Stuff
47 comments to Karma
- virgil xenophon“Karma”
- My VERY first thought. when I first heard the news..
- October 26, 2011 at 6:54 am
- AdvokaatThe mind reels at the places the comments are likely to go on this one…I’m gonna get some popcorn and just sit back and enjoy…
- virgil xenophonWell I was contemplating making the “observation” that perhaps the Won was simply delivering liquid refreshment (albeit in frozen form) to his supporters–after all, they’re used to eating his shite with both hands, aren’t they?
- virgil xenophonNot to mention eagerly gulping down all that WH leftist Kool-Aid…they’re in good practice..
- PeterGunnCertainly Kool-Aid… and with a good helping of ice, in slab form.
- October 26, 2011 at 5:05 pm
- October 26, 2011 at 8:33 am
- virgil xenophonNot to mention eagerly gulping down all that WH leftist Kool-Aid…they’re in good practice..
- October 26, 2011 at 8:28 am
- virgil xenophonWell I was contemplating making the “observation” that perhaps the Won was simply delivering liquid refreshment (albeit in frozen form) to his supporters–after all, they’re used to eating his shite with both hands, aren’t they?
- October 26, 2011 at 6:57 am
- SurfcasterMakes you wonder if the AF1 pilot was trying to keep current on manual dumping method accuracy and delivery.
- “Sgt, prepare to Jiggle Handle….. “
- October 26, 2011 at 7:09 am
- SK1I am glad that no one was injured. Agreed. A chunk of ice falling like that could take someone out…I think more appropriate words would be “serendipity” or “irony” – The guy who they support almost causing them to be permanently “messed up”
- Then again, Obama has been crapping all over most of the American public for years (even before he became President) – Why should this time be any different?
- “Karma” is defined as the totality of a person’s actions in any one of the successive states of that person’s existence, thought of as determining the fate of the next stage – Getting killed (even accidently in such a manner) would not be “karma” but more of “wrong time, wrong place for the wrong reason”
- October 26, 2011 at 7:20 am
- Joe in N Calif
October 26th, 2011 | Tags: Small Stuff | Category: Small Stuff
47 comments to Karma
- virgil xenophon
“Karma”
My VERY first thought. when I first heard the news..
- Advokaat
The mind reels at the places the comments are likely to go on this one…I’m gonna get some popcorn and just sit back and enjoy…
- virgil xenophon
Well I was contemplating making the “observation” that perhaps the Won was simply delivering liquid refreshment (albeit in frozen form) to his supporters–after all, they’re used to eating his shite with both hands, aren’t they?
- virgil xenophon
Not to mention eagerly gulping down all that WH leftist Kool-Aid…they’re in good practice..
- PeterGunn
Certainly Kool-Aid… and with a good helping of ice, in slab form.
- Surfcaster
Makes you wonder if the AF1 pilot was trying to keep current on manual dumping method accuracy and delivery.
“Sgt, prepare to Jiggle Handle….. “
- SK1
I am glad that no one was injured. Agreed. A chunk of ice falling like that could take someone out…
“Karma” is defined as the totality of a person’s actions in any one of the successive states of that person’s existence, thought of as determining the fate of the next stage – Getting killed (even accidently in such a manner) would not be “karma” but more of “wrong time, wrong place for the wrong reason”
I think more appropriate words would be “serendipity” or “irony” – The guy who they support almost causing them to be permanently “messed up”
Then again, Obama has been crapping all over most of the American public for years (even before he became President) – Why should this time be any different?
- Joe in N Calif
Interesting that, if it did indeed come from AF One, that The One did in actuality what he has been doing figuratively.
- Surfcaster
I would argue that The One was in fact doing The Two.
- Sarge
Arg, Joe beat me to it…
Events in Oakland over the last couple days are starting to take the funny out of this whole episode. The Lowest Common Denominator has decided to violently oppose the police after being warned to disperse. Clearly, they are trying to provoke a Kent State moment, which they have been openly declaring as a goal since the inception of this whole fiasco.
Civilization is at risk here.
- Joe in N Calif
SK1 beat me by several seconds. If I hadn’t stopped to edit out the line about irony before posting…
- Mike M. (of the UAVs)
They might be trying to provoke a Kent State moment, but I think the real result will be a Democratic National Convention in 1968 moment.
In other words, convincing the general public that they are troublemakers who should be dispersed with “a whiff of grapeshot.”
- chalkboard
Bomb nav system needs work…
- Airmail
SHACK
…and the wimps at Occupy London are leaving their tents at night to go sleep in a warm bed.
- Thursday
Another victory for trickle-down economics.
How is the investigator supposed to tell the difference between that smelly brown residue and the rest of the protest?
- Warthog
That’s not blue-ice, it’s Obama Kool-aid.
- kalel666
We know a smelly brown residue was left behind, but what was left when the ice melted?
- Mike Myers
I’ve been reading Paul Fussell’s book on WW II. In the WW II RAF being called to the C.O.’s office for a reprimand was referred to as “being shat on from a great height”.
Pip pip, Tally Ho and all that Old Chaps–we’re back at it again. The Bamster loves to criticize those who don’t agree with him. Needs a better aiming system though–and considering the fact that he’s said he’s in sympathy with the OWS groups, this would be a case of “blue on blue” or friendly fire fatalities.
“…leaving only a smelly brown residue.”
All of which oozed back inside their tents after the excitement died down.
- RonF
At one city or another I was listening to a report that action was being taken to remove “Occupy ” because the site was becoming a health hazard. A young female protestor complained that the reason was because the city had not provided porta-potties, etc.
She just doesn’t get it. It’s not the job of the city to do that. It’s not the job of the city to spend money to enable your protest. The First Amendment gives you the right to peaceably assemble. It does not give you the right to taxpayers’ money to fund the needs of said assembly, whether that be porta-potties or handwashing stations or even land to hold it on.
- G. McCoy
This is too good…
- comatus
After all these years: WHO KNEW we still had a working Norden?
“Into a pickle barrel, from 20,000 feet.” Still, god dammit, ticking.
Your glasses, Gentlemen, to Our Fighting Air Force: Bless ‘em all.
Forrestal said that flag on Iwo Jima guaranteed the existence of the Corps for 500 years. This ought to at least breathe some new life into the B-747 project.
So the Occupiers were, essentially, hit by an Icy B. M., is that it?
- Joe in N Calif
((throws rotten cabbages and tofu at Tim))
Tim wins the Internet for today.
- Surfcaster
AGREE!!!!
- Sarge
(mumble mumble) Spider Robinson fan… (mumble mumble) Callahmn’s Crosstime Saloon
- Jim Collins
Great book.
- Jim Collins
Great book.
- Advokaat
We have a WINNAR!!!!
- John
+1!
Thank You. I just spit on my monitor.
- grizzledcoastie
He shoots…he scores!
Nice they had to dodge a Smurf icee!
- PeterGunn
+1 … nominating you for the “Retort Race”.
Hand the 50 lb chunk of human waste a sign and it will blend right in.
- mikesixes
They allow encampments under the approach path of Airforce 1? Seems like a security problem.
- Snake Eater
…Nota Bene…”it’s infinitely better to be pissed off than pissed on”. Best
Huh. Guess the O isn’t just full of hot air, eh?
- Teri
Is there anything left for a DNA test?
- Walt C
I can imagine the obit had anyone been killed. Hit on the head by a B.O.cicle. The won has dropped a two on u.
Well at least it landed on the toxic waste site. No need to pollute clean parts of Vegas.
- Dust
Good code name for Captain Zero- “Blue Ice”.
“According to witnesses, the slab fell to earth seconds after Air Force One passed overhead while landing.”
Now I know why it was 50 lbs !
- LJ
On a more professional note, the maintenance guys at Andrews are no doubt in the s**t this evening for there being a leak, no matter how routine such things may be on this part of the aircraft.
Things Falling Off Aircraft indeed!
- SicSemper
So close, and yet so far.
Don’t you know they scrambled and fought over the ice and contents, to add to their private shrines?
- Paul L. Quandt
I don’t see how it could possibly be smelly; I’m sure I’ve been told that its (that communist ***hole) s**t doesn’t stink.
Paul
