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So here’s a coincidence for the newly reformed Coincidence Club.

Two bizarre flaming crashes, both occuring on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 11, 2006.

1. New York Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle is killed when his small plane crashed into 40-story apartment building in New York City at 2:45 p.m. AP story here.
2. “WATKINSVILLE – A man rammed his truck into a rural barn Wednesday afternoon and apparently burned to death as flames engulfed the building, the climax to a bizarre series of events that one investigator said was the strangest he’d ever seen… The bizarre series of events began to unfold sometime before 3 p.m. ” First story from the Athens Banner-Herald here.

Maybe someone can crack that one.

The man in the truck was later identified as a retired UGA coaching assistant.

The symbolic situation here can be titled as “crash and burn.”

Here’s some gruesome symbolism: on the previous Saturday – October 7 – the sports teams these men were associated with suffered disasterous defeats. The highly-favored Yankees were eliminated from the American League Championship Series by the Detroit Tigers. And the previously unbeaten Georgia Bulldogs fell 51 to 33 to the Tennessee Volunteers.