Small plane crashes into commercial building in Texas

The Monkey said:
Here's hoping for the latter.
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I do hope you're joking monkey man. The last god damn thing we need right now is people going ape shit crazy with fear about terrorist attacks.


Duct tape sales would surely skyrocket.
 
Right down the street from the national instruments headquaters, I'm there pretty much every August. Crazy.
 
Is this the plane that had all of the Tesla engineers in it?
 
It appears to not be terrorist related... but more of a case of a disturbed man.

He apparently set his house on fire before he left for his plane.
 
Oh gosh, I hope it's not the one I'm in. I haven't been outside in ages.
 
would have made more sense if he flew his plane into his own house. 2 birds with 1 stone.
 
Tyguy said:
would have made more sense if he flew his plane into his own house. 2 birds with 1 stone.
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lol.




One thing this incident shows is that planes with lots of fuel on board are VERY destructive... even small planes with relatively limited speeds and less amounts of fuel. Those people who say that the 9/11 planes couldn't have possibly caused the extensive damage they did(and the roaring fires too) are morons.
 
Raziaar said:
I do hope you're joking monkey man. The last god damn thing we need right now is people going ape shit crazy with fear about terrorist attacks.


Duct tape sales would surely skyrocket.
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I think it's rather irrelevant to the victims if it was an accident or an act of terrorism, although I suppose you're right about the hysteria part.
 
Technically he is a terrorist...but since he has white skin i'm sure nobody will care enough to escalate this to the point where Giuliani get's involved and has his proverbial boat less buoyant than the water beneath it.
 
Tyguy said:
Technically he is a terrorist...but since he has white skin i'm sure nobody will care enough to escalate this to the point where Giuliani get's involved and has his proverbial boat less buoyant than the water beneath it.
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He was suicidal. It's unwise to classify such a thing the same as foreign terrorism as caused by Islamic radicals. Which is exactly what people think about these days when they think terrorism.
 
This isn't the first time a white guy flew a plane in to a building, happened in New Yrok a few years back. The only rational thing to do at this point is not allow white people to fly small planes.
 
Raziaar said:
He was suicidal. It's unwise to classify such a thing the same as foreign terrorism as caused by Islamic radicals. Which is exactly what people think about these days when they think terrorism.
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that's my point, people will be quick to dismiss this as just a suicide because he isn't brown...but seeing as he flew a plane into a building (assumed to be full of people) that would absolutely classify him as a terrorist.

No Limit said:
This isn't the first time a white guy flew a plane in to a building, happened in New Yrok a few years back. The only rational thing to do at this point is not allow white people to fly small planes.
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I would have gone with making buildings illegal to congregate in.
 
We were able to see it (the smoke at least) from where I work. Thus I knew about it before everyone here. I'm so special.
 
TimoJay said:
We were able to see it (the smoke at least) from where I work. Thus I knew about it before everyone here. I'm so special.
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Why didnt you alert the internets first thing then?
 
Shakermaker said:
Supposedly it is an IRS building.
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A friend of mine was apparently supposed to call that building today, she does taxes or something. I thought that was weird.

CNN said:
A message on a Web site registered to Stack appears to be a suicide note:

Nutjob said:
"If you're reading this, you're no doubt asking yourself, 'Why did this have to happen?'" the message says. "The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time." In the long message, the writer rails against the government and, particularly, the Internal Revenue Service.
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Edit: Just read this letter from the guy. It's surprisingly well written, worth the read.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html
 
He apparently hit an I-beam, and only injured two with a third missing.

If I was going to go apeshit I'd at least have the thoughtfulness to load it up with ANFO or something.
 
Tyguy said:
A friend of mine was apparently supposed to call that building today, she does taxes or something. I thought that was weird.



Edit: Just read this letter from the guy. It's surprisingly well written, worth the read.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html
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I used to work a ways down the road, took the bus by there a couple of times.

I also read most of what he had written and was also surprised by how sane it sounded. He really just sounds like a typical guy who had a bunch of tough breaks with tax issues and was pissed about health care, and just got frustrated. Of course, lots of people get frustrated about financial issues but aren't crazy enough to fly their plane into an IRS building, but it's not difficult to sympathize with some of the points he makes.
 
Tyguy said:
Technically he is a terrorist...but since he has white skin i'm sure nobody will care enough to escalate this to the point where Giuliani get's involved and has his proverbial boat less buoyant than the water beneath it.
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Well. The terrorism people seem to care about is Trans-national, not individual radicals.
 
I figured since it was an IRS building, everyone would be okay with it.
 
Tyguy said:
A friend of mine was apparently supposed to call that building today, she does taxes or something. I thought that was weird.



Edit: Just read this letter from the guy. It's surprisingly well written, worth the read.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html
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He does sound sane, almost rational.

Unfortunately he is dead wrong, and downright evil. Just because he had financial troubles didn't give him the right to kill innocent people. The workers for the IRS in that building were not responsible for his suffering, and even if they were, he would have no right to take their lives.

This man valued his own money more than the lives of the people he attempted to murder. Good riddance.
 
theotherguy said:
He does sound sane, almost rational.

Unfortunately he is dead wrong, and downright evil. Just because he had financial troubles didn't give him the right to kill innocent people. The workers for the IRS in that building were not responsible for his suffering, and even if they were, he would have no right to take their lives.

This man valued his own money more than the lives of the people he attempted to murder. Good riddance.
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Workers in the IRS have no souls.

Sorry, I don't really know, but that's the stereotype, no?
 
dfc05 said:
I used to work a ways down the road, took the bus by there a couple of times.

I also read most of what he had written and was also surprised by how sane it sounded. He really just sounds like a typical guy who had a bunch of tough breaks with tax issues and was pissed about health care, and just got frustrated. Of course, lots of people get frustrated about financial issues but aren't crazy enough to fly their plane into an IRS building, but it's not difficult to sympathize with some of the points he makes.
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He sounded like a tax cheat that decided he had a right to take a bunch of innocent lives because the government wanted to punish him for being a thief. I read his stupid note, there was nothing rational about it. People like these really piss me off.
 
The guy had a $200,000+ home, a nice car, and a ****ing airplane. Money troubles my ass.
 
Sounds like he was stressed out. Sometimes Hawaians have it right. Hang loose. Don't stress the little stuff.
 
OH MY GOD I HAVE TO LIVE A LESS LAVISH LIFESTYLE MY WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!
 
No Limit said:
He sounded like a tax cheat that decided he had a right to take a bunch of innocent lives because the government wanted to punish him for being a thief. I read his stupid note, there was nothing rational about it. People like these really piss me off.
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Yeah, I just realized that he may have tried to go through a tax loophole when he lost $40,000+, but his point about taxes being confusing was valid. I know sane people who could've written similar rants. One of my officemates has been pissed off for at least the past month because the IRS has been withholding $2,000 that she was supposed to get (legally) as an Education Credit. The IRS person she spoke with got mad at her because she was confused about filling out the form, as if these forms are so clear that nobody could possibly mess up. She ended up resorting to H&R Block. When taxes become so complicated to file that even relatively intelligent people need to resort to paying tax lawyers so that they can correctly pay taxes, it seems there are some issues with the system, at least in terms of being unnecessarily complicated.

Personally, I (and my parents, who have been correctly filing their own taxes for 40+ years) can't even figure out whether or not I need to pay state taxes off my student stipend, because it's not clearly indicated anywhere. I don't even give a crap about the money; I just genuinely have no idea whether I need to pay it or not.

Do you keep track of every single online purchase you've made in the past year, then calculate what taxes you owe on them and write a check to your state for it? If not, you too are participating in tax evasion, cheating your state out of taxes you owe. Looking at some google auto-complete results, it appears that many people are very confused about this issue.

Anyways, obviously the guy's a huge douche for flying his plane into a populated building. It seems he was bottling resentment and just snapped -- they have several reports from people who knew him who thought he was a normal, calm person. So I'd put him in a pretty high echelon of insane people, but not as obsessively and overtly malicious as, say, that dude who got on a plane with a bomb up his butt.
 
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