Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Hargrove Hal Graham, Rocketman
Posted by Jim Ridley on Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:14 PM
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At the risk of being branded insensitive and callous, I have to wonder about the whole point of this article. Yes, Mr. Graham did do some great volunteer work in the name of technology. But so did John Paul Stapp and countless others. However, when the FAA decides that you potentially pose a risk to life and limb for those in the air and on the ground, it is for good reason. The ill trained and distracted pilots of flight 3407 were nowhere near Hal's age, but fucked up a lot of people.
To make a display of your disagreement with those decisions by terminating your life in such a selfish and public manner is, just plain selfish.
By the way, this whole jet-pack thing is pretty mainstream. Go to just about any airshow these days an you will see a demo of one.
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I also do not understand the point of this article?
What about the people that witnessed this incident?
The people that saw this man shoot himself in front of them?
His life was ended essentially victimizing people via suicide.
He had the benefit of living 75 years, now others possibly younger than him have to live with the lasting image of a man putting a gun to his head and pulling the trigger, or cleaning it up or hearing it, or walking upon him- for the rest of their lives.
