Yep, So far 18 years of fully paid premiums and no claims on my end...Hoping for a perfect streak by the end of it all. Per Richard Collins, "What is the most important hour you will ever fly?" "The next one."
My sense is that ajagostini meant it as a lighthearted comment, not the way Marxists and American Democrats (but I repeat myself) justify looting and rioting and arson.
Unusual as it may be in this day and age, where quotes are often used for emphasis or other purposes, they are using quotes to tell you that the words quoted are exactly what the person said, not something re-phrased by the journalist.
As a kid in Germany I once was on a bus which hit a helicopter.
A ADAC BO-105 medical emergency helicopter had landed on a city street during rush hour traffic to transport a victim. For unknown reasons the bus driver decided to go around the helicopter and didn't see or misjudged the spinning main rotor blades, and drove into them. The blades sliced through the roof of the bus above the driver's head, and the helicopter was knocked back onto its tail (no damage there due to the support spring under the tail boom, whatever that is called).
Needless to say the helicopter was disabled and the person it was to transport had to be transported by ambulance. I don't know if he/she made it.
At least I had a good story for my dad when he asked why I was late coming home from school...
Did anyone notice the condition of the wing with a 4000lb car sitting on it? That is a pretty sturdy spar system in that wing. Too bad about the engine, but a lot of pilots are taking that risk every day with un-certified aircraft and flaky engine conversions, etc. The whole thing is an insurance nightmare... But it sure is fun while it lasts!!!! And big kudos to the pilot who managed a landing during a take-off power failure. I think the pilot would have walked away, which he did, and the airplane probably would have been repairable but for the car-on-the-wing thing.
Ahhhhhhh....some of the reasons I left Illinois. Used to drive that past that airport few times a week. Just yesterday now another incident at RFD (fatal).
But seriously, Glad all is well when the most pain felt is by the insurance carriers.