Tragedy and Comedy
Jan. 12th, 2006 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsidheTragedy: The reports of the bus crash in Egypt were horrible enough, and I panged in sympathy for those involved — especially the woman who reported being first on the scene and checking the bodies of two people whom she knew, to find them both dead.
Then came a personal connection this morning, when the names of the two Victorian Police officers who died were released. I think I knew one of them: "George Panayiotis from the radio and electronics division."
When I worked at Barker Technics, all those years ago, I'm pretty sure it was George in the Radio section with whom I dealt for the repair of the Speed Lasers and Radars — collecting the broken units from him, and dropping the fixed ones back at the Radio section near the old Tuesday Fighter Practice hall near Smith St, Richmond. If it was him, then I even taught him how to do some of the simpler repairs himself.
None of this makes the tragedy any less, or greater. It certainly doesn't make me even the shadow of a victim ... it's just that a guy I knew once, purely in a professional context, has just died in a horrible accident. A small personal connection, that's all.
Edit: There's a photo. It was him.
Comedy: And now for something completely different: <quote voice="Nelson Muntz">Ha! Ha!<quote>
Pat Robertson's virulent wingnuttery has just cost him a fifty million dollar deal. There is some justice in the world after all.
Then came a personal connection this morning, when the names of the two Victorian Police officers who died were released. I think I knew one of them: "George Panayiotis from the radio and electronics division."
When I worked at Barker Technics, all those years ago, I'm pretty sure it was George in the Radio section with whom I dealt for the repair of the Speed Lasers and Radars — collecting the broken units from him, and dropping the fixed ones back at the Radio section near the old Tuesday Fighter Practice hall near Smith St, Richmond. If it was him, then I even taught him how to do some of the simpler repairs himself.
None of this makes the tragedy any less, or greater. It certainly doesn't make me even the shadow of a victim ... it's just that a guy I knew once, purely in a professional context, has just died in a horrible accident. A small personal connection, that's all.
Edit: There's a photo. It was him.
Comedy: And now for something completely different: <quote voice="Nelson Muntz">Ha! Ha!<quote>
Pat Robertson's virulent wingnuttery has just cost him a fifty million dollar deal. There is some justice in the world after all.
