
In the interests of full disclosure I will say that I know absolutely nothing about air shows. All information regarding air shows is culled from a hazy memory of an air show I attended at the age of 11. Thank you.
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So, this happened over the weekend.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Two small planes collided during an acrobatic display at an air show in Poland on Saturday, killing both pilots, authorities said.
Footage of the crash is available here.
Is it not enough that we've mastered flight? That we, as a non-flying species, were able to build a bird from metal and wire, to do our bidding, and use it to fly across the country... We can't stop there? We just have to twirl around and do flips and spew red, white and blue smoke for the amusement of some yokel cramming pie into his yap. (Or, as it was in Poland, perhaps only red and white smoke, and whatever passes for pie in Poland.)
I'd have no problem with the high risk involved if the end result were worth it. You know, if the actual show resembled the crash more than whatever was supposed to happen. And maybe back in the '50s (again, I have no idea when air shows came into vogue, and I don't care enough to look it up. While I'm also not sure when exactly they went out of vogue, I can tell you that it was sometime prior to Saturday.) when your only other option was catching frogs and trading marbles, it might've looked pretty exciting, but, we've moved on.
Haven't we, as a society, outgrown the need for air shows as entertainment? Is this something anyone out there is clamoring to see? If "see an air show" is on your to-do list that list also contains:
-ride in firetruck
-pet elephant
-turn 6
All things one only needs to do once, if that. There are better things to look at... Like everything.
I think there's comes a time in the life of any form of entertainment where we have to assess whether or not the negatives outweigh the entertainment value we get from the event. I think two deaths sounds about right for getting rid of the air show. I would've been happy to discontinue it at "strained neck."
Q: How many Polocks does it take to ruin an air show?
A: It was already ruined... it's a fucking air show.
TheCoolerKing is fairly certain he ripped off the "turn 6" joke from one of his previous articles. He's fine with that.
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