Friday, July 27, 2007

Collision

It is very rare that you get to see a midair collision captured, especially between helicopters.

Two news helicopters covering a police chase on live television collided and crashed to the ground Friday, killing all four people on board in a plunge that viewers saw as a jumble of spinning, broken images.

I can't believe that they still cover police chases, but daytime TV is pretty shitty, and you know people will start tuning in again now that there was a double chopper crash, so coverage will continue.

Don't know how long
this link will be active, but you can see the raw video aftermath. What was particularly odd is that whoever is giving the sparse commentary sounds like he's doing it while jerking off pretty hard. Crash porn? Maybe.

Better than that was an eyewitness account from Rick Gotchie, an air conditioning contractor who was working nearby when he noticed the helicopters overhead.

"I kept saying 'Go lower, go lower,' but he didn't," Gotchie said.

No, he didn't. Thanks, genius.

Since I can't get my hands the actual helicopter footage, this is "Collision" from Faith No More.

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