A plane just crashed into a building a few miles from my house

No kidding! What amazes me is that my dad up in Wisconsin just called to tell me the news.

Gah. Roll call, Austin chewers.

I had just started dating a girl in college and one night stayed over in her dorm room instead of going home. I get up the next morning, and decided to blow off an 11 AM class, so I call a friend that's in the class to make sure she's taking notes. She answers the phone in tears, and starts screaming, "WHERE ARE YOU?" Once she calms down, I find out that a fucking plane crashed in the neighborhood of condos I lived in early that morning. I drive home, have to park a 1/2 mile away because of the police presence, which includes me having to show my license with my address on it so I can get to my apartment. Here's what happened--The main street in the complex is about 1/2 mile long. I lived in a set of condos on one end, and the plane crashed into a set on the other end of the strip. Holy shit, it freaked me out. Turned out that it was a homicide--the plane was carrying a guy from Gulf Power who had or was going to testify against some big shot in the company. They found a duffel bag in the plane that was filled with bottles of acid in an attempt to completely destroy the plane when it crashed. I still have a roll of the police line tape that I rolled up from in front of my condo a few days later. About 3 months later, there was a party in the complex, and it was on the foundation of the condos that were there pre-crash. I talked to a guy that was in one of the condos when it happened--he was taking a shower, and realized the ceiling was caving in on him...he grabbed the shower curtain, wrapped it around him, and ran out. Also funny--some of his nudie mags got blown all over the place as well.

Hope all folks involved are OK.

That's a lot of damage for I assume a small 2 seater.

I'm fine, we're all fine here...How are you?

The crazy thing is that building is about a mile from where I used to live and work...I've delivered to that very place when I worked at a deli. What I'm really curious is what it'd be like to be driving your car to work, and get clipped by a plane!

Yeah, it's a goddamn maze in there. I think the person who drew up the blueprints was being a little bit of an Austin native that morning, if you know what I mean.

That is a perfectly acceptable custom if you're a Viking.

Austin Native = Rockin' the Ganja? It's been awhile since I've been to Texas.

The Austin roadways are designed to confuse and befuddle the out-of-towners. They laugh at us when we visit.

I hope my Austin friends are okay. Crazy, man.

Jesus Christ. The guy wrote a letter. It's certifiably insane.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...=breaking_news

So will this guy be called a domestic terrorist?

There might be some political hay made of this, but it seems like the essential bottom line is that this guy was a super crazy fucker.

So, that's where i sent my tax return...

Maybe that guy was just doing the same. By plane.

So it was a 1040KAMIKAZE.

He e-filed his SOUL.

Could have just used Turboprop Tax.

Seriously, when I heard a plane crashed into an Austin building, I was terrified it was going to be the Drafthouse South Lamar.

My wife has family either in or around Austin, I'll have to see if she's checked in.

Holy fuck his letter is a bit insane. Wow. So I guess everything that happened was in no way his fault..

After reading that letter, I keep asking myself why engineering majors are so fucking batshit insane. This guy was an engineer, as was the underpants bomber, most of the 9/11 hijackers, and a good part of the Al-Qaeda leadership. If you're extraordinarily good at math is there a day in school where they take you aside and give you the reverse version of the A Clockwork Orange treatment?

I read the manifesto on Mahalo, and ironically, the ad at the bottom said:

"IRS Tax Penalty Relief We Negotiate With The IRS For You. Call For A Free Tax Debt Analysis!"

Does anyone know if this turboflaming doucherocket (in the words of local radio personality Charlie Effin' Hodge) is the one missing? I'll be amazed if he survived, and even more bemused by the fucking three ring circus that his trial would become.

Ten bucks says he bailed out and faked his own death.

I was bouncing around a couple LOST jokes in my head, but fuck it. And fuck this psychopath; I hope the 2 in the hospital come out relatively OK, the missing 3rd is rescued, and the pilot discovers hell consists of paying taxes (by means of his entrails unfurled from his gut and boiled in piss while still attached; goes toward the Hell Library and local law enforcement).

Authorities are said to be looking for a man in a black and white mask wherein the black sploches on it manage to move about whenever the man speaks or his facial expression changes. He was also said to be wearing a purple pin stripe suit with a brown fedora and trench coat.

Note to wackjobs everywhere when writing a manifesto don't make it so long that people check out after 3 paragraphs.

Like Walter Kovacs would know how to fly a plane.

Get used to this, folks. By 2012, we might be up to our ears in McVeigh clones.

I guess we should be glad that as a Kamikaze wannabe, the guy was so totally inept. Two injuries,no fatalities.
I just read his manifesto. We have not seen this level of crazy since the good old days of the Unibomber Manifesto. The guy seemed to hate EVERYBODY. He went from ranting about the Evil Government to the Evil Corporations and the Evil World in General. A sort of Non Partisan Nutjob.

Watchman and Alex Jones in the same thread makes me have to bring up Jones's review of "The Watchman" last March. For sheer batshit crazy it's hard to beat.

You know what's funny? I almost went in to my new job today... right across the street from that building. But I opted out yesterday because I have to head downtown for an overnight shift tonight.

Just think how annoyed I'd be if I was trying to have lunch or something and that crazy smashed his plane into a building right across the way! The cops and the media would be all, "You witnessed it, sir... tell us what you saw!" and I'd be like, "Maaaaan, I just want this grilled cheese!"

Damn.

I am SO lucky, right?

Have you seen PI?

Alex Jones has shut down his forum because of a flood of posters supporting this wackjob's action. Nice bunch of followers Alex Jones has.

I bet this guy somehow managed to scrawl FED into his chest and then hang himself in a manner that in no way required the help of others.

Seriously though, what the fuck?!

First act of anti-tax tea party terrorism?


PS: My condolences, EYEBALL KID. A sad and sorry situation

I don't think condolences are really necessary, Kate. Unless the Kid was particularly attached to that building, which is understandable. I used to have a relationship with a library. Didn't end well, though.

No problem.

Must suck to be a part of a community stuck by violent extremism like that (especially when it's an psychotic American and not some outside force). That's what my condolences were about. I don't know anyone else directly effected by the event, otherwise I'd say the same to them.

This is kind of interesting.

I make 165$ a week. 17 dollars is taken out for taxes. I feel the goverment should be busting down the doors of rich people and stealing their stuff before they tax a person like me a single cent


This guy had nothing to whine about. He's pathetic. His anti taxation "plan" (as far as I'm able to tell from the article, the "plan" was '1) stop paying taxes 2) kill some random people 3) everyone realizes he's right) made no sense and would not convince anyone of the justness of his cause

Why not burn your money so no one can get it, LOL? Then the government would have to pay YOU for your welfare :P It would at least make a hell of a youtube video to see someone burn 10 000 dollars in cash or something : P