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ASPEN - Of all the things to lose, Aspen resident Barry Cox says he never thought the propeller off his Piper Malibu would be one of them.
“Propellers don’t usually come off,” said Cox.
On December 26, 2007 Cox and three passengers were flying into Aspen, when the pilot lost power and lift.
Turns out the propeller on his plane fell off in mid-flight. With his front window covered in oil, Cox managed to coast back to the Aspen Airport and make an emergency landing never realizing he lost his prop.
“Twelve and a half miles, I coasted it in, I didn’t even know I lost my prop, because I couldn’t see out the front window,” said Cox.
That was 7 months ago and now Cox is looking for that long-lost propeller. Cox knows it came off somewhere near the Reudi Reservoir in the Roaring Fork Valley, he just can’t find it.
So, he’s offering a $1,000 reward to anyone who finds the 50-pound prop and brings it to him.
“I don’t need it back because I’m going to use it; I need it back for the investigation,” said Cox.
The NTSB is still trying to learn why the propeller came off and Cox says having the propeller would help a lot in the investigation.
“One idea is they feel the propeller may have been installed improperly,” said Cox.
You can learn more about the reward and exact location where the propeller may be by going to Cox’s Web site at www.wheresmyprop.com.
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When Charla Muller told her friends what she was giving her husband Brad for his 40th birthday, she was met with a variety of responses - none remotely positive.
One thought she might have been going through a mid-life crisis of her own when she came up with the idea. Another questioned her sanity, and yet another asked bluntly: ‘Were you drunk when you thought of this?’
What on earth could the gift have been? A particularly hideous pair of cufflinks that light up in the dark? A speedboat so expensive that it required selling the house? A session with a lapdancer? No, it was worse.
On the eve of Brad’s birthday, Charla told him that his present was going to be sex with her every day for a year. She had wracked her brains to think of a gift that was original, intimate and - most importantly - memorable.
‘I never wanted him to look back and ask himself: “Now, what was it Charla bought me for my 40th?”‘ she says. ‘When I came up with the idea of daily sex for a year, I thought I’d hit the jackpot. What man wouldn’t think that was the best present ever?’
What a pity not everyone - actually, not anyone, if we are being truthful - agreed.
‘To be honest, I didn’t tell my friends what I’d got him until halfway through the year,’ says Charla. ‘When I did, they were just incredulous, with most thinking that I was quite mad.
‘One girlfriend said I must never, ever tell her husband what I was doing in case he got any ideas.
‘What they took issue with most was the timescale. Some could see the merits in offering their husband daily sex for a week, perhaps a month. But a year? It was unthinkable.’
More disappointingly for Charla, the mother of two young children, even Brad thought the idea was a bit, well, unrealistic.
She had been expecting whoops of delight and much punching of the ceiling when she told him of his gift. Instead, she got sheer bafflement.
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) Painting and detailing cars and motorcycles is in Dennis Hallet’s blood. He and his wife Sandra bought River City Auto Painting last March.
“I started it at 15-years-old in my dad’s garage,” says Dennis Hallet.
They invested in a Dell Computer for the business, and signed up with AT&T for the internet and phone service. But Sandra made a mistake while paying June bills.
“In thirty years I’ve never crossed up bills. I managed to send Dell my AT&T check and I sent AT&T my Dell check,” says Sandra.
Both companied cashed the checks.
“I don’t understand how they’re cashing checks that aren’t made out to them,” says Sandra.
Dell applied the $235.00 check made out to AT&T as a payment, and AT&T applied $1138.33 towards the Hallet’s phone bill, leaving them a credit of $903.33. Sandra first called Dell to straighten it out.
“As soon as I sent those copies I [was] sure Dell would take care of the interest fees,” Sandra explained.
Then she called AT&T to get her overpayment back to apply to Dell.
“His attitude was, ‘Oh, it’s your fault, you sent us the wrong check,’” says Sandra.
And when Sandra asked for her money back Sandra says, “We’ll get you your money back in two months.”
Sandra says AT&T told her they deducted July’s charges from the credit.
“That’s not even owed yet. I haven’t even gotten a bill yet and they’ve deducted it and they’re talking about taking August’s bill,” she said.
We spoke with AT&T’s corporate offices to find out how the check was cashed and why the Hallet’s can’t have their money sooner.
AT&T told us, “When a customer makes a mistake and submits the wrong amount of money the system recognizes the error and that bill is singled out….. We do have to wait to ensure that a check has cleared the bank.”
But AT&T didn’t explain why they cashed a check written out to another company.
AT&T called Sandra and apologized. They took out July’s payment, but promised a check in the mail for $643.75 within seven to ten days.
“Better, better, but I’d like to see them actually change the way they do things,” says Sandra.
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The American Basketball Association plans to add an Anchorage franchise to what would become a 46-team professional league beginning next season.
“We’ve been looking at Alaska for expansion for quite some time,” said Joe Newman, the ABA’s chief executive officer. “Basketball is very popular there, as … evidenced by the very successful Alaska Shootout.
“The problem has been transportation. We believe that has been worked out and, as a result we are adding the Alaska Dream to our 2008 schedule. Should anything happen, however, we are prepared for a 2009 start.”
Last season, ABA teams played a 22-game regular season from November or December through March.
ABA franchises span the country from San Francisco to New Jersey, with international franchises in such locations as Montreal and Monterrey, Mexico.
The team will be owned by Trey Davis, according to the ABA. Davis is a teen and outreach coordinator with the Boys and Girls Club of Southcentral with a background in marketing and events coordination.
“We named our team the Alaska Dream because it has truly been our dream to have a professional basketball team, particularly an ABA team, here in Alaska, and this is like a dream come true,” Davis said in a press release.
He said Alaskans have long wanted a ABA franchise, “but the problem has been finding a plan to reduce the cost of travel.
“It will be affordable for ABA teams to visit here and for us to do our road games on the Pacific Coast.”
The ABA, which is where the 3-point shot originated, combines international FIBA and NBA rules.
Davis said he’s been working on an Anchorage franchise for about a year and is “very confident” that the team will play in the upcoming 2009-09 season. He said that the ABA charges teams $20,000 to get into the league, and he estimated annual expenses at $200,000.
“Travel is the main hurdle for us,” he said. “Most teams go by bus.”
He said he’s negotiating with officials at Sullivan Arena to secure dates between December and May, working around the already scheduled Alaska Aces and UAA Seawolves hockey teams, which have most of the prime weekend dates locked up.
Depending on the outcome of those negotiations, he said, the home opener would be between Dec. 6 and 12. He estimated ticket prices would run $15 to $25 and that he needed an average home attendance of about 1,000 fans to break even.
And his hope is for a roster full of Alaska talent.
“That’s what I want to do. That’s what I’m going to do,” he said. “Fill this team with Alaska players.
“There is no doubt we have some great talent here and will be competitive.”
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