Originally posted by: Lonyo
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Originally posted by: Nebor
That's just silly. It wasn't his fault that the helicopter pilots were idiots. There could have been a water main break and the same thing could have happened, and you wouldn't blame the water main. :roll:
That's the way I see it. The guy deserves what he gets for running but the helicopter incident isn't his fault. Sad to say, this was statistically inevietable. When you have that many aircraft in such close proximity, eventually something like this is going to happen.
The pilots should have been paying more attention to their surroundings.
There was an incident a few years ago here in Texas, where a state trooper was speeding to catch up to a speeding car he wanted to pull over. The trooper lost control coming over a hill, slammed into a tree @ 100mph+ and was seriously hurt. They said they wanted to charge the driver with assault a police officer, attempted murder, blah blah blah. It's all silly.
That's not silly.
It's the police officers job to catch criminals. The danger they put the police in is their responsibility. The danger they put people at the side of the road in is also their responsibility (like if they force a car to swerve to avoid them, it crashes, the occupant dies).
The criminals, however, should not be held responsible, EVER , for media deaths due to a criminal event. The media choose to be there. They put themselves in a dangerous situations and voluntarily take stupid risks but are not really doing anything to help the situation (unlike the police).
Any media involved who get injured etc shouldn't have the blame put on the criminal.
Police and innocents, they can do, since the criminal is at fault.