In the Northeast we have motor vehicle accidents.

In the South they only have wrecks.


On 3/13/06, Marc Chrusch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dana wrote:
> >How is this an accident?
> >
> >"At around 3 pm one or both of them triggered an avalanche that possibly
> >caught both but only one took the long ride down the drainage and was
> >buried."
> >
> >Just because it was written up under the heading, "Accident Summary"???
> >
> >It sucks, but it's not 'xactly an accident.
>
> Accident in the same sense that it's an accident when the gun
> eventually fires in a game of Russian Roulette.
>
> Accident in that the term has been bastardized to mean any mishap for
> any reason.
>
> Accident in that the victim most likely wasn't planning on getting
> himself killed that day.
>
> -marc
>
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