Tragedy could have been averted
December 8th, 2006 by ktula
I do not know James Kim personally. I only know him by watching his reviews of products on cnet.com and also on the cnet tech review on my Tivo. I am not even sure why but somehow what happened to him affected me. There is this deep sense of sadness i felt when his body was found on Wednesday. I was hoping that he would be found alive and be united with his family. A few things came to my mind, including why he was able to drive onto a road that was supposedly closed. Why wasn’t the closed road gated? I remember driving to Mount Rainier in the winter of 2003 and found that i was not able to proceed because the road was closed and it was gated.
Well, in a AP story today, it was discovered that the road that the Kims took was supposed to have been gated. According to the Forest Service, “vandals had cut the lock on a gate that should have stopped the Kim family from taking that spur road.” For this act of vandalism by some reckless asshole, James Kim paid for that with his life.
Update 12/14/2006
The Bureau of Land Management has now admitted that the gate on the logging road where James Kim made a wrong turn was NEVER locked. So this tragedy is now due to some incompetent federal employees.
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