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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