Landing in the Sh1t

The Daily Mail reports on possibly the sh*ttiest landings of all time. There are no reports of whether the pilot cr*pped his pants as well!

With his plane stalling at 150 feet, and no time to return to the runway, the pilot of a Cessna 182 was probably in need of the toilet.

Luckily, he found a whole pile of them, and the crash landing on top of piles of portable loos probably saved his life.

The Cessna 182 crashed on Friday afternoon in Washington state after taking off from Thun Field, an airfield owned by Pierce County southeast of Tacoma.

The plane was about 150 feet (45 meters) in the air when the engine quit.

Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said the pilot tried to turn around to land but didn't quite make it.

The plane hit a fence, flipped over and landed upside down on top of the portable toilets standing in a storage yard.

The pilot, whose identity has not been released, was able to walk away apparently unharmed.

Pilot's miracle escape as plane crash lands ... on a pile of Portaloos | Mail Online

We're all Crap and we know it

According to Rachel Sylvester writing in the Times

A year after Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, the Labour Party seems to have adopted the Gerald Ratner approach to its leader. Ministers, backbenchers, party activists all declare that the product is “crap” but they still want the voters to buy it at the next election.

Unfortunately this time Labour, unlike what happened to Ratners, will grind on until they have their final death throes in the 2010 election rather than being gone before you can eat a M & S Prawn Sandwich.

More seriously this article is about the continuing decline of Labour's finances and whilst Gordon hasn't come out and said "We are Crap" his serious financial backers already know they have a bad product and are not willing to invest or bankroll the Labour party. Backers are not going to give money to the party whilst Gordon is the Leader. According to Rachel

At the moment the money is running as fast as it can away from No10.

Let us hope that Gordon will soon see the writing on the wall and do a runner as well.

Update: Nice to see this article is the subject of PB.com's latest thread after I highlighted it last night. It has been mentioned about 4 times since then by various posters.

Who will finish off Gordon Brown? Follow the money Rachel Sylvester - Times Online