Soaring requires a certain amount of self-sufficiency.

If an engineer's glider gets dinged, (s)he can fix
it. If a doctor gets sunburn at the gliderport, (s)he
can self-administer first aid.

If a lawyer suffers a gliding mishap, all (s)he can
do is sue him/herself.

I apologize in advance to all offended attorneys.

9B

At 05:36 05 October 2004, F.L. Whiteley wrote:

'Matt Herron' wrote in message
. com...
This is a bit wierd, but a friend and I can think
of no lawyers who
fly gliders. We can think of plenty of doctors and
gobs of engineers,
but no members of that darker profession. Is it just
us, or is there
something about soaring that excludes lawyers? Aversion
to risk??

We had one, but he's been inactive recently. AFAIK,
he's a tort lawyer.