Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/07

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Subject: [Leica] Off Topic--Stella Awards
From: robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:27:50 -0600
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==On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

>
>>
>>  I live in Oklahoma and have heard the Winnebago version, in various
> incarnations, for probably 30 years now.  There is also one about a doctor
> who put his airplane on autopilot and went back to take a nap.
>
>
> Ken
>
>
There actually was a lawyer in Oklahoma City who would set the alarm on his
wrist watch, set the autopilot and doze off for a while.

When he finally had his fatal crash the assumption was he was asleep while
he ran into a headwind and the airplane slowly lost speed and settled into
the ground.

This is a true story and, speaking as a lawyer who knew him, I'll say it
was just more proof that you can't always fool Mother Nature.

--Bob
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