Another Sign of the End Times

I may be confused about all this. There's a car chase (admittedly in Phoenix, where the sun beats down constantly on people's heads), and somewhere in the process, two news helicopters collide in midair, killing those aboard. Now there's talk of charging Mr. Car Chase Suspect (or Person of Excessive Speed, or whatever) with the deaths of the people in the helicopters. Surely I'm missing something, maybe he shot them down.

But -no- a glance at a story shows that some people are quite serious about this. I just don't understand how. To merely stretch this same logic a tad, all the people who sit home and watch TV coverage of car chases could claim that said drivers caused the flat spots on their asses.

The helicopters were engaged in inherently dangerous, completely voluntary (an in no way necessary) activity when pilot error (as captured on the radios right before the crash) caused the mid-air collision that resulted in the four deaths. Arguments that they would have been sitting somewhere drinking coffee if there had been no car chase are puerile.

I hasten to note that the deaths of police, paramedics, firefighters, or other "first responders" (of which TV news helicopter crews are NOT included) are in no way involved in what I have said here, as they are there in the performance of their duties.

If the individual involved can be charged in the four deaths, it indicates that there is a bad, bad law involved, one that should immediately be repealed. It reflects Harry Truman's principle that even one bad law breeds contempt for all law.