I was going over a BBC article concerning the apparent discovery of a fossil bed from the day of the Chicxulub impact (which has already been commented on,) when this item on storm chasing caught my eye. It mentioned a deadly crash back in 2017, which took the lives of three chasers. While the person who was crashed into (Corbin Jaeger) appeared to have been a well-respected storm chaser who was working for the National Weather Service (NWS,) the ones that appeared to have caused the crash (Kelley G. Williamson and Randall Yarnall) were doing so for The Weather Channel (TWC.) And now the TWC was being sued on behalf of the late Jaeger's mother.
The more I read the related article on the lawsuit (and the actual suit papers,) the more disturbed I got. You would have thought that TWC would have learned their lesson from the 05/31/2013 El Reno tornado (nothing says "too close for comfort" like seeing one of your chase vehicles rolling across a field like a tumbleweed {skip to 22.15 for that incident :eek:} .) Instead it appears that the only lesson they learned was to not have their "talent" near the tornado. In this case, it appears that the channel
What's worse is that is that TWC
The suit itself make for some even more disturbing reading, for it appears that when two other chasers came across the crash site and called it into TWC, the person on the other end apparently asked them to recover the video from Williamson and Yarnall's vehicle :eye-poppi (they obviously refused, with one having to tell the person on the other end that this was "a crime scene.")
Based on all the evidence the plaintiffs have, I do not see TWC getting out of this one - they should count their lucky stars that the suit "only" is for $125 million ...:(
The more I read the related article on the lawsuit (and the actual suit papers,) the more disturbed I got. You would have thought that TWC would have learned their lesson from the 05/31/2013 El Reno tornado (nothing says "too close for comfort" like seeing one of your chase vehicles rolling across a field like a tumbleweed {skip to 22.15 for that incident :eek:} .) Instead it appears that the only lesson they learned was to not have their "talent" near the tornado. In this case, it appears that the channel
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"knowingly chose two chicken farmers and cattle ranchers from Missouri without any emergency/first responder or meteorological training to star in their show. "TWC then instructed them to barrel into dangerous weather conditions to obtain footage, needlessly endangering local residents fleeing impending catastrophe." |
What's worse is that is that TWC
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"...had been warned by other storm chasers about Williamson and Yarnall's "history of reckless driving". It also says that their failure to stop at the junction where the collision occurred was their fourth traffic violation that day." |
The suit itself make for some even more disturbing reading, for it appears that when two other chasers came across the crash site and called it into TWC, the person on the other end apparently asked them to recover the video from Williamson and Yarnall's vehicle :eye-poppi (they obviously refused, with one having to tell the person on the other end that this was "a crime scene.")
Based on all the evidence the plaintiffs have, I do not see TWC getting out of this one - they should count their lucky stars that the suit "only" is for $125 million ...:(
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