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2025-02-07 Southeast Asia

US Marine, 3 contractors killed in aircraft crash in southern Philippines

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Posted by Clerenter Flolump9830 2025-02-07 06:38|| || Front Page|| [11148 views ] Top

#1 "The aircraft, however, killed a water buffalo when it hit the ground."

Not a soft landing.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-07 09:29|| 2025-02-07 09:29|| Front Page Top

#2 I know the article doesn't say how it came down, but could you imagine losing power knowing you can't make it anywhere safe to land, doing everything right to glide down as soft as possible in a soft flat rice field, only to have a fucking water buffalo hidden in the field.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-07 15:55|| 2025-02-07 15:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Think about it from the water buffalo's point of view. You are standing there in the paddy minding your own buffalo business. You are munching leaves, maybe eyeing the lady water buffalos and suddenly, literally out of the blue, *WHAM*. It's enough to make you rethink your entire philosophical world view.

Calls to mind the Smite Button cartoon we discussed the other day.

Posted by SteveS 2025-02-07 16:38|| 2025-02-07 16:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Ha! Yes.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-07 20:47|| 2025-02-07 20:47|| Front Page Top

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