Avoiding trouble

Looking for something completely different, I found this gem, courtesy of MSNBC:

Near-misses often turn into hits, especially in a place where trouble is likely to find you. For example, you shouldn’t be surprised when you travel to a third-world country with an atrocious air safety record, and your plane overshoots the runway, bursting into flames.

Close call! 5 tips for avoiding a near-miss - Christopher Elliott- msnbc.com

I can’t speak from experience, but I honestly feel that “surprise” probably won’t be predominant emotion you experience as your aircraft is engulfed in flames.

It would have been funny, though, if someone from Lost had said, as they scrambled out of the wreckage of Oceanic 815, “Boy, I sure didn’t see THAT coming!”

If you don’t bother to click through to read the rest of the article, know this: there is a Vegas connection. If you want to be safe(r), stay on a lower floor.