Steve Fossett Missing

Yea...and ???
Did he have Coopers or BFGs
Engel or Waeco...

Play with matches, get burnt one day.
Waste of a good search.
He is in the same league as Paris Hilton.

Havn't got an ounce of sympathy for some one who puts THEMSELVES into life threatening situations just cause thier rich or they can, thier idiots, we lived in a little village in Scotland and every winter you'd get some maniac trudge up those hills in conditions that could only be discribed as suicidal, ends up costing the taxpayer tens of thousands and all for WHAT ??? no mate leave him and if he's lucky enough to have a next time he might just think twice,
just my 2 bobs,
Dave

Aaaaagggghhhhhhhh!! Not not Steve Fossett!! Please God, not him again!! I couldn't stand to see any more pictures of LPG bottles falling over!!! No, please, no, I beg of you no more!!

I don't know what you guys in the rest of "Oz" had to put up with, but when he was here in The West doing his "cross Australia in a hot air Coles shopping bag" (or was it The Pacific??), every flamin' night we had reports about his attempt & how he couldn't start it 'cos "this went wrong 'n that went wrong". It went on for weeks, ad nauseum ACCOMPANIED by repetitive shots of his bank of about 60 gas bottles falling over in the wind in Kal!!

Please, no more,,,,,,,,,,,

If he wants adventure, he should go to Afghanistan or Nigeria and help eradicate polio where it's rampant. With all the money he's got, he could do something better with it than cause LPG bottles to surrender and all fall down!!

Bilbo

I'm tipping Steve Fossett is no more..! Sounds like you guys aint gunna miss him , nor his gas bottles, or his gas full stop. !

Geez thats ashame.

A bit harsh there lads, the poor fella is at best injured in his plane (if not dead) & you're bagging him for being an extreme adventurer. Just because your idea of a good time imay be wrapping yourself in cotton wool & watching TV shouldn't mean others who are obviously very successfull can't be extravegant or live on the edge, not that he was doing anything out of the ordinary making a normal everyday transit flight in a light plane. The guy has undoubtably donated millions to charity's yet that for some is still obviously not enough.
Despite the worrying circumstances I hope he is found in good health.
Cheers Craig..........
HZJ105 Vic

Firstly,",,,,,,,,,The guy has undoubtably donated millions to charity's,,,,,,,,,,,,"

Prove it.

,,,,,,,,and even if ya can, I don't care, He's still a tosser.

The only reason he, and others like him, such as Richard Branson and that uber-idiot, Tony Bullimore is yet another, do what they do is:

a) because they can. Which in isolation, is never a good reason.

b) Because they're uber-rich and consequences don't matter. e.g if his balloon crashes in mid-Pacific, the Royal Australian Navy will come and get him and he has have very good lawyers that will ensure he doesn't get a bill for it. Commonly termed," The Tony Bullimore Paradigm". If I go out into desert and break down, I have to use a Sat Phone for the RFDS and a tilt tray truck to come and get me - I bet he doesn't!! He gets a TV company or a government to pay for it.

c) They are that far up themselves, they love the thought that everyone thinks they are magnificent human being and they are loved, adored and respected by millions and pictures of themselves will be all over the world news. I've got news for 'em and it's all bad.

The intelligent inhabitants of this world would respect them more if they used thier money for cures for diseases, to assist in ridding the earth of poverty, to educate people, to ensure kids have food and clean drinikng water, to fight depsotism and war. After all, Gandhi did this quite well and he was as poor as church mouse!. Instead, what do we get - another @#@%*&***ing balloon flight!! Jeezus!! Just what the world needs right now. No wonder there are countries in the world that hate us, The Western World. I didn't see Nelson Mandela flying in any balloons.

I hope he's allive, I hope he gets rescued but most of all I hope he's learning a very hard lesson. He's a waster.

Bilbo

PS - Heard on the ABC News this morning - one of Richard Bransom's companies recently aqcuired some land in Africa and built a "lodge" on it for "high roller guests" to stay and observe the wildlife. To achieve this they kicked off 2 tribes that have consequenty lost thier homelands and have nowhere to go. Bransom's company intends to now "negotiate' with these people after they complained to the U.N. Yeah right!! Hey Bransom, why didn't you negotiate BEFORE ya took the land off 'em. This is not the 1800s. Another waster.

Maybe we could pass these comments on to his family and friends who are worried sick about him, bound to chear them up.

Rsoles

Baz.

What amazes me about some of the responses in this type of thread is that they seem ignore a basic principle…someone is in trouble and most likely has a family that are beside themselves. If your view is that he is a tosser, so be it, but why not show some compassion by at least keeping it to yourself under the circumstances. Maybe everyone should reflect on how you would feel if you or a family member had the same misfortune beset you.

Besides, if we didn’t have adventurers in this world we’d probably all still think the earth is flat.

Give it a break!

Whoever wants to get the ball rolling and make contact with Steve Fosset's family, can you please tell 'me that I'm worried about him, but he's still a tosser. However, if he is dead, tell them I hope they leave all his money to an orphanage in Vietnam or some place.

There was full page spread on Page 2 of "The West Australian" today. It was reported that he filed no flight plan, he left his sat phone room back at the ranch - The Hliton Family Ranch, which puts him in the company of another tosser, Paris - and he didn't tell anyone where he was going. It could have been one of several places.

Irresponsible??? I'd say so. If you or I did that we'd cop hell from people on this very forum. But what did it matter to him? The USAAF are now out looking for him with a Blackhawk helicopter fitted with infra-red search devices plus a dozen other search planes - as he KNEW they would because he's STEVE FOSSET!!. If it was some poor Mexican wet-back lost in the desert they wouldn't put the alarm clock to go out and look for the poor bugger!

It also gave a list of the records he's broken and the acheivements he's accomplished. Philanthropy was noticeable by its absence.

I hope he's alive, but I hope he's walking home with no shoes on through heavy cactus country.

We're "celebrity crazy". Perhaps that's my whole point. We worship the wrong things and wonder why we end up with a world that's seems to have gone insane.


Bilbo - The tosser spotting hobbit with tosser spotting binoculars

If you run full steam to the edge often enough, eventually you will slip and go over!

Cheers Pesty

Do any of you small minded people actually read or listen to the news?

He was flying a light plane, like thousands of Australians do everyday!

Well with all the flying that he does, he should know to be more careful!!

As I said above, I had a goodmate killed on a 600cc Norton Dominator motorbike, 40 years ago. Mike was his name and he was as "crazy as" on that bike. We all were, but Mike was head 'n shoulders worse than the rest of us. We all said it was only a matter of time before Mike copped it. The things he did, the stunts he pulled on that bike were simply inhuman, the speeds he did in traffic were obscene,,,,,,,,but his luck ran out one night.

He was coming home from a cricket match, in the evening, doing under the 30MPH speed limit, tootling along, minding his own business and just enjoying the evening sunshine,,,,,,,,when a Ford V8 Pilot with 4 drunks in it came around the bend on the wrong side of the road, hit him, knocked him off the bike. He hit his neck on a marker post and broke his neck. He was buried without a mark on him. We often said that he'd be buired in an egg cup 'cos they'd never find enough of him for a coffin! Well, he proved us all wrong but he was still dead.

Sometimes, if you push yer luck far enough - it simply runs out.

Bilbo

Some may have more knowledge on the subject with respect to Steve Fossett and his philanthropy. Although there is a trend that wealthy people who support charity organisations don’t necessarily go around shouting it from every rooftop. But in any case, just because he has more money in some cases, and probably much less in comparison to others, doesn’t mean that he is obliged to support those less well off. Although we always hope that people who can help those less fortunate will.

I think it is a dire and callous situation when civilised societies promote the view that we check your bank balance before we rescue you, and that cuts both ways. Anyone in trouble should be afforded the best rescue services regardless of how much, or little, their bank balance is. If he is found he may well even pay for his rescue, but let’s use the best resources to find him first.

In terms of celebrity, sure there are those who appear to be famous simply because they promote themselves that way. But I wouldn’t put Steve Fossett in that space.

People seek out the likes of Steve Fossett, and in that process convey ‘celebrity status on them’, because they are inspirational people and serve as example to many of what you can achieve through sheer determination. Look at what this man has achieved in his lifetime. I for one would welcome the opportunity to spend an hour with him.

Steve Fossett has done a lot in recent years to expand and generate interest in technology; his non-stop flight around the world has many benefits well beyond the fact that it created a record.

Let’s not condemn someone simply because they have the fortitude to pursue and live their dreams.

Life would be mediocre if we, or others, didn’t push to the boundaries, regularly. In fact, we might still be doing the Simpson Desert on the back of a camel if we didn’t!