UPDATE On B'Day Boy Who Stole Plane - "I feel lucky to be here..."

[matcom]

this story was first reported yesterday by the Matcom News Service, Inc. this is an update on our young drunken lad:

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ANGLETON -- Louis Paul Kadlecek hung his head like a mischievous little boy in trouble. He had no idea why he stole a plane from the Brazoria County Airport and doesn't know why he wasn't hurt when he crashed it into a high power line.

"I was very drunk," he grinned.

Now that he faces spending years in a state prison for his Sunday morning stunt, Kadlecek, 21, said he's learned his lesson and has sworn off drinking.

"I feel lucky to be here," he said at the Brazoria County Jail on Wednesday. "I feel like I've been given a second chance."

He was more than lucky to walk away unhurt after flying the 1969 Cessna 172 a mile and then crashing it into a 100-foot-high electrical line.

"It was a miracle," said Brazoria County Airport Director Louis Jones.

"If stunt pilots tried 1,000 times to do the same thing, they would have been killed 999 times," Jones said.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2432389

[GOPisEvil]

1. If I were the judge...

...I'd hire Red Foreman, from That '70s Show, to slap this doofus upside the head and call him a "dumbass". THEN, I'd throw him in jail for a while.

Hopefully, this guy has learned his lesson. Dammit, man, you could have killed somebody or yourself!

[Elidor]

2. If god truly looks after drunks and fools...

Then this fellow was doubly protected.

Matcom News? I think GonadWire was better. Whenever someone accidentally slices off his own penis, whenever someone finds an eggplant in her uturus, I depend on Matcom's GonadWire to keep me abreast of the latest developments.

Hey, need any testimonials?

[matcom]

3. GonadWire

hee you said abreast :D

think the AP will use me and my sources?