Crash boom bang

A single-engine Cessna went down last night in an area near the Murray Hill-Lake Park-UWM-North Avenue metropolitan area. There was a thunderstorm at the time and the pilot (who survived) claimed that he was on approach to Timmerman airport. Ummmmm…little problem, Timmerman is clear on the other side of the city on the Waukesha county line, a good ten miles away. It’s also a few miles to the north as well. What’s more controllers at Timmerman were never contacted by the plane. So um, what kind of approach were you trying there buddy? No surprise that media reports today say that the pilot, David Betts, a 37 year-old Elkhorn resident may have been drinking. Drinking and driving is pretty much the unoffical state sport here in America's Dairyland. After all the state seal features a swerving '91 Cutlass with PBR cans flying out of the drivers side window.

I presume that although captian dipshit hails from Elkhorn he has no connection to the previously mentioned yahoos in the basement who also hail from Elkhorn, but perhaps we are seeing the start of a pattern. Just what exactly is in the water down there in Walworth County?

The crash occurred in the Riverwest neighborhood, just the other side of the river from the Murray Hill-Lake Park-UWM-North Avenue metropolitan area. Riverwest is a buffer zone between the fashionable east side and the more, shall we say, less genteel areas that predominate as you push into the numbered streets. Not quite the hood but the kind of place where you can get a $4 latte, and some crack on the same corner no less. A truly egalitarian area where pimps and yuppies live harmonioulsy, side by side. And to that we can now add a drunk pilot from Elkhorn, and a wrecked Cessna.