Wildfire Riders

Fffffffffffff

Plane crashes into IRS building, guy leaves his crazy manifesto behind. Maybe two miles from us. Guy also set fire to his house with his wife and 12-year-old daughter inside of it before going to get his private plane.

Lemme repeat that.

His private plane and his house. And he's ranting about taxes.

I hope this guy lives, so I can kick his ass. He planebombed an office full of pencil-pushers and ruined his family because he is pissy about his taxes. Any real substance his concerns held is negated by the absolute whining selfishness of his rant. Fuck you Joe Stack.

Edit:

Looks to me like Mr Stack thought he found a tax loophole to abuse, saw dollar signs and tried to play the system for his own gain. Then he got caught at it. He flew into a flailing manbaby rage, posted a largely incoherent/inconsistent rant on the interwebs, and piloted his plane into an office building to kill random strangers for being associated with the IRS.

The picture gets even more retarded when you consider this: He had a private airplane and a house that (according to one of the linked news sites) was worth about $260k. And his move to Austin was apparently driven by the lack of local income taxes.

Seems like he wanted to live like the corporate pigs he bitched about without having to ever pay anything into the system. This is particularly evident when he praises socialism at the end, but wailed about the government taking "HIS MONEY" just a few paragraphs earlier.

This, this here, this is why I am so pissed. Auugh.

It's great waking up on your Saturday (which is everyone else's Thursday) after nice dreams about...I dunno, it was something epic. Anyway. Get out of bed, go to Internet, "guy did what? In my town?"

Saying "what a dick" doesn't really sum it up right. This is what happens when you have just that perfect formula of egotism, nihilism, and pettiness. The perpetrator is reported dead, which I guess is kind of a shame because there might've otherwise been a chance to give him a far more exotic, lingering demise, but that's the asshole in me speaking, too. I heard he managed to kill one other guy in all of this, though. That family, my heart goes out to. Nobody needs to lose a loved one because some asshole goes on a high-budget temper tantrum.

I mean...
There's a lot of problems with capitalism both as a timeless ideal, and as the temporal reality we know it as today. There were problems before the economic implosion, the CEOs taking billions, the Bernie Madoffs; there will be problems in the future. If we were socialist, or communist, there would be different problems with severities of assumedly similar levels. No ideology is immune to its corruptions.
I don't know whether there was something about this guy nobody knows yet that brought him to and over the brink; nor do I know if he was just a spoiled bitch who was mad he didn't get his way. And I'm no expert on morality or ethics. But I'm pretty sure any attack in which you kill yourself to make a point leaves you a coward, and I have no room in this world for the cowardly. Attacking the innocent, the unarmed, and the unexpecting is abhorrent even if you stick around afterwards.
My thoughts are with the families of the deceased and the injured, as well as with the family of the culprit, who assumedly had nothing to do with this atrocity. As far as our homeboy goes, though, I pray to the powers that be that he gets locked away in a very special hell for a long, long time.

Thankfully, no reported dead other than the pilot, only two major injuries (one a burn victim, and one smoke inhalation).

According to CNN, there were indeed 2 deaths, bodies found in the rubble afterward, along with the two injured.

I hope there is a "Whiny Bitch" corner in Hell. I might end up there myself, but this fucker's going to get extra pokers for sure.

Awwww dammit. Thoughts with those two and their families. I was really savoring the fact that this huge cock didn't cause any lasting damage. No-account son of a bitch with half a soul and the balance owed to Judas. Why I must walk this earth with the bright-eyed liars and titans of inner filth shall ever plague me.

Hey, now. Judas had his reasons, and he repented afterward.

This other guy, however. Fuck him.

Fells wrote:Why I must walk this earth with the bright-eyed liars and titans of inner filth shall ever plague me.

hey now. Those bright eyed liars and titans of inner filth are my bread and butter.

Jeni, quoting Achewood makes everything better, doesn't it?

It really does.