Belleville, MI
I was telling my wife last night that Kobe and his daughter were unfortunately victims of his own wealth and celebrity, because "regular" people like us would have had to drive.
A great loss.
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Quoted from cmack750:Seriously? So the fact that he could afford to take a helicopter put him on a collision course with death and put himself, his family and others at unnecessary risk?
What if he had a driver take him and the driver got into an accident and everyone died? Would that be because he didn't drive himself? What if he did and the same thing happened? Would we question why he'd be driving himself instead of paying a "professional" to get him where he wanted to go?
1.25 million people die every year in road crashes, by the way.... Seems to me like "wealth and celebrity" probably reduce your chances of this happening.
Really unfortunate, especially if it could have been avoided. But putting this on his wealth in any way is pretty dumb.
He was in a helicopter because he was wealthy. To not acknowledge that is pretty dumb.
The loss of life would have been no less tragic, but it wouldn't have been front page news if he'd died in a car accident. Sure it would have been a blurb since he was a celebrity, but the fact that it was a helicopter crash, something most people can't afford/have probably never even been in, is something sensationalistic that the papers and cable news can latch onto, regardless of statistics.
To reiterate again - a great loss.
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