Dec. 5th, 2023

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He rigged the plane with cameras, wore a parachute and had a selfie stick with a video camera attached. 35 minutes into a flight, he shut off the engine and bailed. The plane went down as he parachuted down. He then hiked to the crash and retrieved the footage from the cameras, which were probably GoPros or something similar.

He then contacted the FAA reporting the crash as an engine failure and they launched an investigation, as they are responsible for investigating all crashes. And this is why he's going to prison for six months. He and a buddy went back to the crash site, retrieved the plane, took it back to an airport hanger and cut it up and disposed of it.

All for clicks to promote a sponsor's crypto wallet or some sort of garbage.

Six years would have taught him a much more valuable lesson.

Basically he was convicted of lying to federal investigators and impeding a federal investigation.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-pilot-crashed-plane-youtube-201728505.html
thewayne: (Default)
In June, prior to an appointment with my immunologist, I had a blood draw to measure my immune globulin type-G, it's the only antibodies that can be measured on me as all my other antibodies are functionally zero. It cost me around $10-15.

Late October I had another appointment with my immunologist, and another blood draw. Same thing, measure my IgG. Except the lab screwed up. I receive the results of my IgE blood test, which is below two. Functionally zero. And absolutely worthless.

The lab screwed up. When I went in for the draw, they said they had an order on file for me, even though I had the order in my hand. And they did it wrong. I go ahead to my appointment, I'm told that they will re-run the test as they still have my blood on-hand. So that's cool.

I get the correct results and my level is nice and high.

And now I receive a bill. With two major problems.

First, I was billed for two blood tests, even though they screwed up and ran the wrong blood test.

But what really ticks me off is bloody insurance. As I said, first blood test was around $10-15. These two tests? Over $50 each! And a note on the bill? Out of network!

Today I call Blue Cross. Turns out that the local lab sent them to OUT OF NETWORK LABS FOR PROCESSING! Farkin' barstiches! Kind of defeats the purpose of the place I go to being in-network if they're going to send it to an out of network lab for processing!

Grumble grumble grumble....

Does anyone know if Tasmania is a nice place to live? Russet started talking about it this morning.

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