# This is why cars don't belong on a runway **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-cars-dont-belong-on-a-runway/639972 "2012-11-05T17:18:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-cars-dont-belong-on-a-runway/639972/21 "2012-11-07T00:54:20Z")
Also, [Don’t whiz on the electric fence](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wW6rENTfaU#t=3m30s). ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-cars-dont-belong-on-a-runway/639972/22 "2012-11-07T00:58:01Z")
I have been on a bus that was packed to the gills (trample hazard?), and it drives on the runway. This was of course a [dirty third-world airport with lax\* safety standards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_International_Airport). At least there were helpful signs reminding the drivers that planes have right away. :rolleyes: \*I kill me. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-cars-dont-belong-on-a-runway/639972/23 "2012-11-07T01:47:50Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Also, [Don’t whiz on the electric fence](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wW6rENTfaU#t=3m30s). Duly noted! ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-cars-dont-belong-on-a-runway/639972/24 "2012-11-07T15:50:40Z")
Wow. I like starting at the threshold when I can - gives me room for problems - but I’m not going to fly at 6 FREAKING FEET AGL to hit it. I understand he wanted to drop down from that little hill there, but damn. Mind you, I snapped off my intstructor’s nose wheel in a 50 foot pile of ice and snow, but at least I was 50 feet up in the air! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-cars-dont-belong-on-a-runway/639972/25 "2013-02-22T14:31:28Z")
Update: [The pilot has earned his certificate](http://www.aopa.org/training/articles/2013/130221student-pilot-who-hits-suv-earns-ticket.html?WT.mc_id=130222epilot&WT.mc_sect=tts&cmp=ePlt:RdMr). > [@](#): > > In interviews immediately after the incident, Davis said that he didn’t want to learn to fly anymore. > > “And it was true at the time, but that interview happened the day after the crash. I felt low and hadn’t had a chance to talk to anyone about what happened,” said Davis. “But after the shock wore off, I realized that I still had a passion to fly. It was my childhood dream.” > > \ > > On Feb. 2, Davis, an AOPA member, took his checkride and got his certificate. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-cars-dont-belong-on-a-runway/639972/26 "2013-02-22T18:47:09Z")
Good for him. Let’s just keep him away from [Gibraltar](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QZ0G060vQ)… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-cars-dont-belong-on-a-runway/639972.md?page=1)