So my beautiful Daughter is at the Rockaway NJ mall this morning

[DainBramaged]

Dad, I'm getting a flat what should I do Where are you? In front of JC Penny. OK, can you go over by Best Buy where it isn't as crowded and I'll come up with the air tank and floor jack in case I need to change it. OK I'll go over see you in a few minutes.

About 10 minutes later a small plane crash landed in the parking lot RIGHT where she had been prked.


Someone was looking out for her.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32554194/ns/us_news-life/

[nc4bo]

1. Luck, God, whatever higher force of nature - thank-you that she is ok.

Saw that coverage on the news and could not believe no body was hurt or killed.

[DainBramaged]

5. She heard it land while I was on the way over

After I pumped up the tire and we were headed out this ARMY of cop cars and ambulances started to arrive so we came back here to get the tire fixed. She's REAL careful with her car so she parks away from the other cars. I saved the spike from her tire and I think it will be a great good luck charm.

[xxqqqzme]

7. She needs to buy a lottery ticket.

[Hekate]

2. Holy cow. I'm so glad for you and your daughter.

:hug:

[Subdivisions]

3. Good GOD! I saw that on M$NBC just awhile ago and pointed it

out to my s/o!

I'm so glad she was not there when that plane came down!

[Lasher]

4. There's gonna be some tall huggin' goin' on today.

Thanks for sharing.

[Echo In Light]

6. Signs and wonders

[northzax]

8. just out of curiosity

do you have a non-beautiful daughter? doesn't she take umbrage at that title?

[jhain]

10. oh, please.

It is a parent's heart filled response to a child's life saved. Every moment of this day is BEAUTIFUL to them.


Give her huge, beautiful hug from me down in Cape May County, Dad.

[DainBramaged]

19. I have one stunningly beautiful Daughter and she does NOT take umbrage

If she was butt ugly, she would still be MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER

[seabeyond]

20. you say beautiful daughter and i didnt even think physical appearance.

was your/her heart

[DainBramaged]

24. I never think appearance becuse she is MY kid

but here she is for the first time on DU

[seabeyond]

27. lol

such love. you just feel it in your posts, lol. beautiful works for me.

[renate]

30. obviously both senses of "beautiful"--inside and out--apply here

Those eyes! She's lovely. (I would LOVE to have hair that color... I can never quite get it right but I keep trying!)

I'm so glad she's safe. What a close call! Give yourself a pat on the back for telling her to move.

[DainBramaged]

32. Dean's list, 3.6 average, works out 4 days a week, photography major

geek and certified NJ bartender.

We done good......

[damonm]

77. Damn skippy...

Well said, Dad.

[msanthrope]

39. Northzax, all wanted children are beautiful to their parents.

Please stop being an asshole, at least for the duration of this thread.

[Control-Z]

76. You're being silly.

Whose daughter is not beautiful?

[Deja Q]

80. What sort of sick and twisted response is that?!

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Ho Lee Shit!

Wow!

[DainBramaged]

29. She just called, she said that JC Penny is OFF her shopping stop list forever

:rofl:

[redqueen]

11. Wow... thank goodness you told her to move the car...

so glad this story has a happy ending for her.

And hope the pilot's ok too.

[grace0418]

12. Wow, you must feel like the luckiest dad in the world right now.

Hugs all around.

[seabeyond]

13. daddy... help me. i am coming baby... lol lol

this is the more fun story, to me. ah... i always had a dad that charged forward on his white horse and 'rescued" me too. lol

i know in all our feminism we are suppose to independently change that tire, but...

what a good father you are

[redqueen]

17. Every daughter with a dad like that should thank their lucky stars. (nt)

[seabeyond]

18. damn straight

further, studies show....

lucky stars are right.

[DainBramaged]

21. I would step in front of a bus to save her.....

[seabeyond]

25. as a poster above says

all girls should have this.

your bond cements her self worth. just as the mom to the boys does the same.

fathers are so important to their daughters. i have two boys. would have loved hubby to have this relationship with a daughter.

[WolverineDG]

53. My dad actually pouted when I took my car to a mechanic

without consulting him. Thought I was showing him just how well he had taught me so I could take care of this teensy problem by myself like a real grown up. Nope. He pouted. :sigh: I never took the car to a mechanic without asking for his advice. Parents.

On topic, this is a great story. Glad no one was hurt, especially your daughter!

dg

[seabeyond]

59. bah hahah. isnt that for real. i am 47 and still

my father wants to come to my rescue. he doesnt want to step on hubbies toes, but still....

and with two brothers, geeeesh, i am the least needy in family with the most help

[comtec]

74. Heh Dad made us both learn how to rotate the tires before we got our cars

=] My dad's not sympathetic as far as that goes. Heh he made me change the oil too before I got mine.

Dad always made sure we know the basics, my sister and I.
We still call him for our car troubles because he has this uncanny ability to trouble shoot a problem with the flimsiest of descriptions of what's wrong.

That said he's always willing to help us out when we need him as much as he's able.

I'm glad to hear the OP's daughter is fine. The ass hat poster that was giving him troubles, obviously doesn't have kids. Otherwise he'd know not to post what he did.

[Pangolin2]

14. It appears the pilot was looking out for everyone...he plonked it down in an empty part

of the parking lot.

[DainBramaged]

23. Her car was THERE she ALWAYS parks there when she goes to Penny

[Pangolin2]

31. You mean the plane hit it?

yikes

[DainBramaged]

33. Nope, but 10 minutes more and it would have.

[Pangolin2]

34. Well I seriously doubt it, the pilot would have dumped it where there was not any cars.

Which is exactly what he did.
:-)

[DainBramaged]

35. (Sigh) have you ever been to that part of the Mall by TRU and JCP?

It ain't a landing strip.

[Pangolin2]

37. Yes and where he landed was not a 'landing strip' either. I just prefer to thank an actual

person for obviously avoiding hitting anyone instead of attributing it to some unseen/imaginary deity or whatever. After all, a better 'miracle' would have been no airplane trouble or your daughter deciding to leave early and not having a flat tire. :-)

[DainBramaged]

40. God is not imaginary to me

goodbye

[trotsky]

63. No, but thankfully your god likes you and your daughter.

Doesn't really care about the 600 women who were raped today in this country, though.

[DainBramaged]

65. Go piss on someone else's parade buttmunch

Start your own fucking thread so I cam come and piss in it.

What a nice way to meet you :sarcasm:


and for you to join my ignore list.

[trotsky]

70. Well I guess you won't see my own thread since you're ignoring me.

But it has always struck me as elitism/arrogance/entitlement whenever someone praises an unseen entity for the rescue of their loved one or themselves, conveniently ignoring the millions of people who have suffered and died with no such special intervention. Kind of a buttmunchy "I'm special" thing.

[Pangolin2]

73. You improved on my answer in 71

:hi:

[trotsky]

75. Glad I'm not the only one put off by that kind of thing.

I guess we're not allowed to point that out though.

[LanternWaste]

52. It seems thanks to one does not deny thanks to the other.

It seems thanks to one does not deny thanks to the other.

I imagine many people who believe that miracles do not exist will ofttimes rate "hypothetical" miracles on a sliding scale of degrees of success based on our individual perspectives...

[Pangolin2]

71. I've lived in 'tornado alley' most of my life and it always amuses me when

somebody thanks jebus for saving their house when 3 of the neighbors lost theirs. It strikes me as
obscenely arrogant.

[LuckyLib]

56. A semi-controlled landing is what's going on here -- flat surface. How it will end up

is beyond the pilot's control. Those things don't stop on a dime. Laws of physics kick in, and the best that can be done is to be away from people.

[Pangolin2]

72. I've given probably 500 hours of instruction in 172s and similar planes.

It's pretty easy to land and stop one in a couple hundred feet. Avoiding obstacles is obviously a huge incentive to keep from dying. That is precisely what the pilot(s) did.

[WolverineDG]

54. the pilot needed a safe place to land so your kid got a flat tire

God/Karma/Whatever is not stupid. ;) There is no such thing as a coincidence. If her car had stayed there, maybe the pilot could have landed, but people would have been killed. Solution: give the girl who calls her dad a flat tire so he can tell her to move it. :)

dg

[DainBramaged]

60. Good point, that is logical.

She is everything to me.

[JustAnotherGen]

61. Dain

I think the Universe was definately on her side. :-) What's sad? I live in Bridgewater and work in Basking Ridge and this is the first I'm hearing of this.

Me thinks I need to back away from Rachel and Keith and the internets and turn on channel 12.

[DainBramaged]

67. That's how we found out

on 12 in the waiting room this afternoon.


:hi:

[titoresque]

15. wow!

so glad she is ok! Strange how the universe works isnt it?!

[SidneyCarton]

16. Holy crap!!!

Not her time to go.

Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference, the great miracles are predicated on small, everyday actions.

[Ilsa]

22. Wow. I had noted the story about the plane landing on the mal. I

am so relieved for you and your daughter. BTW, my dad taught me had to change a flat tire. Get hubby to teach her so she'll never be stranded again. I've had to change my flats about a half dozen times in my life and was glad I knew how to do it. It can help a young woman feel more confident and in control.

[DainBramaged]

28. Dad is her tire changer and car fixer so....

What was funny she was on the phone while I was heading over (we're about 10 minutes away) and 3 guys asked if they could help....... If she was old or anything else they would have probably ignored her.

[Ilsa]

38. Yeah, but she still needs to know how to do a simple tire change. It isn't hard. nt

[DainBramaged]

42. She knows how, she had a floor jack, breaker bar and gloves

in her last car and had to change the tire when she slid into a curb in the winter and busted the wheel. But it's NEVER a bother to help my kid, ever.

[Ilsa]

45. I know it isn't a bother. It was a statement more about her knowing how if

friendly help isn't available. I'm glad she knows how to do it, and that was what I was getting at.

[Ms. Toad]

50. You had the same reaction I did -

Glad she's safe - but before I got my driver's license back in 1972, my dad insisted I demonstrate I could change a tire by myself. I remember him watching and reminding me not to put my shoulder in the wheel well as I was lifting the tire back onto the the car so that my shoulder didn't get crushed if the car slipped off the jack.

Just changed a tire last week, shifted my position to protect my shoulder remembering his 30+ year old words (lots easier with the lightweight "donuts" than the full sized tires we used to carry), and sent him an e-mail thanking him for making sure I had that skill before I went off on my own in a car.

[donco6]

26. Sounds more like someone was aiming for her. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

36. So, when did you stop shaking?

As a parent, I know how this goes.

Very relieved she is safe.

[DainBramaged]

44. It didn't hit me until I saw it on the news before

we had no idea what it was she heard, and I don't usually do news here unless it's on DU. That's when I realized it was a really big deal today.

[madrchsod]

41. makes ya stop and think what is really important......

life ain`t worth a shit with out them...maybe a O8) was looking out for her.

[DainBramaged]

43. Sitting on her shoulder.

:hug:

[dysfunctional press]

46. "Someone was looking out for her."

:eyes:

maybe "someone" was actually more focused on smiting the pilot of the plane.

[DainBramaged]

48. True, or punishing the asphalt?

[LanternWaste]

55. That anyone, for any reason...

That anyone, for any reason other than a malicious and petty advancement of a contextually irrelevant agenda would minimize the expression of thankfulness and relief from a parent is beyond me...

[dysfunctional press]

68. i'm not-

i'm minimizing the absurdity that something 'spiritual' or 'otherworldly' was at play.

it wasn't.

[DainBramaged]

78. It amazes me how some folks bring an agenda to a thread like this

So some of you don't believe in the inequality of 'miracles' so what. I don't believe in the void after death, but I don't push my believes on any of those here who think that pissing on one's believe in God is OK.

[dysfunctional press]

79. and that's your prerogative...

personally, i find the idea of god, and what it's done and continues to do to our society to be totally repugnant- so i find it necessary to piss on the idea of a supreme being 'looking put for us' every time it rears it's ugly head.

and that's my prerogative. :hi:

[DainBramaged]

81. And for that I bid you goodbye

You may think it's fun o piss on other's beliefs, and I am sorry your mind works that way, but in this instance I'll turn the other cheek and click the x so that I no longer ave to discuss your prerogative with you.

Oh, and I personally find you repugnant

Goodbye.

[dysfunctional press]

82. buh-bye.

:hi:

your opinion means less than nothing to me.

[MadHound]

47. Nice to hear your daughter is OK, however a question for you

Why haven't you taught her to change her own flats and at least be knowledgeable enough to do basic maintenance on a car? That will save her an amazing amount of time, money and trouble in the future.:shrug:

[greguganus]

49. See post 42. (Just tryin' to hep!) n/t

[Union Yes]

51. Oh my. Glad your daughter is ok.

[ljm2002]

57. Wow, you both must be in a state of semi-shock!

Whatever it was, I agree that something / someone was looking out for her!

So glad to hear it!

[Vidar]

58. I'm glad your daughter is OK.

[ChiGal]

62. Thank God!

What a great day for you and your daughter!

[Raine]

64. Your daughter has a guadian angel

I know some will disagree but it could be a near and dear one who has passed over.

[orleans]

66. makes you want to cry...with relief. i'm really glad she's okay.

give her an extra hug from all of us here. (then have her give *you* an extra one from all of us here as well)

[Vickers]

69. I dig that your daughter called you to help her.

:thumbsup:

Y'all have an excellent relationship.