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DJ AM and Travis Barker in Serious Condition After Plane Crash

Holy shit.

DJ AM and Travis Barker appear to be the sole survivors of a plane crash in South Carolina late last night. They are both in critical condition at a South Carolina hospital.

Officials said the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane hurtled off the end of a runway and crashed through antennas and a fence. It came to rest on an embankment across a five-lane highway and was engulfed in flames, said Debbie Hersman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.

Barker and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, were in critical condition at a burn center in Augusta, Ga., about 75 miles southwest of Columbia, hospital spokeswoman Beth Frits said.

Two other passengers — Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, Calif., and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles — died, as did pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills, Calif., and co-pilot James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, according to the county coroner. Baker was an assistant to Barker and Still was a security guard for the musician.

According to reports, Travis Barker has been burned from the waist down, but he is expected to survive the plane crash. DJ AM’s face was severely burned and is being tended to right now.

Our prayers go out to both of them and their families. This is just horrible.

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  • Just very very sad. I never paid an extraordinary amount of attention to either of them, but I do know that Travis Barker seems to be a devoted Dad. My Prayers & heart go out to them.

  • Request:

    Can you change your favicon please? Looks so dull in my bookmark list as the generic thing it is now.

    That beetroot tattoo would look good.

    I’d probably visit more if it had a more relevant favicon. Kind of overlook it a lot in my bookmarks because it just doesnt stand out as others do.

    Thanks.

  • i really hope that they get better but you know that this means that travis is gonna get back together with whats-her-face trashy hoe bag.

  • this is nuts. I can’t even fathom what must be going through your head being on a plane that is crashing/has crashed.

  • DJAM’s face will never be the same–a burn permanently disfigures you…but at least he’s alive. This is so tragic.

  • @DP:

    Medical science will keep them alive. It will do nothing for the emotional and psychological trauma facing them and their families, and the families of the folks who died. That’s God’s job.

  • Oh my god! Awful? its a fucking MIRACLE! i’m just so glad they survived! i mean, its almost impossible someone to survive a plane crash! thank God they’re alive!

  • Actually God was the bastard who decided it was time they burned in a plane crash. What is that you say? Your God didn’t have control over the plane? I thought you God was all powerful?

    Either your God made it happen or he isn’t all powerful. If he isn’t all powerful perhaps you are “praying” to the wrong God. If he did make it happen your God is a prick.

    Hell, I am not even a God and I would never want someone to burn in a plane crash unless of course it was members of the New Kids On The Block or the jerk who invented taxes.

    How does God help with the emotional and psychological trauma? Does he provide free medical support or anti-depressants? At best believing in an imaginary friend gives you a placebo affect of thinking a dead person is going to a “better place” or that some supernatural force will intervene in your loved one’s behalf if only you just pray hard enough.

    Beet, since I know you are Jewish, may I ask you what kind of God would sit back and allow the Holocaust? If that is the kind of God you want to worship then you are one sick puppy.

  • God gave us – mankind – FREE WILL (to beleive in him and love him) and intellect (to create airplanes) and choice (to murder each other in holocausts).

    We made/make this world what it is (the good, the bad, the ugly). Not God. Our choices in this world, our free will, determines what happens us in the next, when (in my belief system) my soul returns to God, and HIS world – heaven. For my reward for trying not to be an asshole this time around.

  • wowwwwwww
    is it so wrong to respect someone else’s religious views? jeez.
    be respectful.
    immature people. ugh.

  • re; kb

    you are so smart. i never knew a burn permanently disfigures your face. wow. i’m guessing you’re almost finished with med school.

  • Right on, Donkey. If it’s God’s job to get the families if those poor bastards who died through this, that’s ‘cos it He killed their loved ones to start with. What an arsehole. Unless, of course, it’s just some random, terrible event and God has nothing to do with it. Wonder which it could be?

  • I was in complete shock when I heard about this. I am a huge fan of Travis, he is an incredible drummer! I don’t know about DJ AM too well, but I have to say its amazing that they survived! I saw the pictures of the crash and it was frightening. I wish them both a speedy recovery!

  • eww i hate arguments involving gods power or lack of power they make me wanna run in circles doing indian chants!

  • this is so sad, they are both tremendously talented people.
    however, does anyone else find it wierd that it was travis and am – the only two famous people- who survived the crash, while everyone else passed?
    how ironic.

  • This is tragic. I was actually at their performance in Columbia on Friday and they were amazing. I hope they both have a speedy recovery.

  • > It is your choice to NOT believe in God but dont bash those who do.

    1) Religious people are the most judgemental people on the planet and are constantly bashing people who are of a different faith than them. Don’t like abortion doctors? Shoot them. Don’t like Christians, blow them up. Don’t like Muslims, stick them in a Ghetto like the Gaza strip with walls around it.

    2) A good percentage of wars are in God’s name. Look how George Bush and his Christian supporters are waging a Crusade right now. I think we have a right to show how dangerous religion is.

    3) You religious people shove it in our faces. Instead of posting the fact that you are religious by posting “our prayers are with them” why not keep it to yourself. I don’t want to hear about the fact that you believe in an imaginary person in the sky. See your psychiatrist instead.

  • That seriously disgusted me reading that comment. I don’t believe in God, personally. But it’s sad that you think you’re better than people who believe. “What kind of God would sit back and allow the Holocaust?” That quote alone sent me off the edge. First of all, it’s called free will. You really think people who believe in God, think he sits in some tower, controlling our every move. You just sound some 15 year old uneducated idiot. This is devasting, no matter who it happened to. Tragedy can happen to anyone, and people will greive. And in a state of shock, and crisis, the only thing that feels right is to pray. Don’t sit here and bash people who pray, like it makes you a better person to preach your knowledge. As if youre the first person to say God doesn’t exist anyway. People cope differently, so shut the fuck up.

  • @ Donkey Punch,

    Dude, you need to relax. People choose to believe what they believe and its not your job to turn everyone into Atheists. You don’t need to go on a rant just because someone is concerned and offers their condolences to bereaved or injured person. “My prayers are You” is a saying of kindness not a declaration of faith. It disgusts me that you turned peoples death into a chance to bash god. Have some respect not only for the deceased but also for other people who post. For example, I’m sure that Lynn shares some of your believes but did you hear her calling Evil Beet a “sick puppy”? No, she simple stated her believes in a RESPECTFUL way. Why can’t you do the same?

  • “1) Religious people are the most judgemental people on the planet and are constantly bashing people who are of a different faith than them. Don’t like abortion doctors? Shoot them. Don’t like Christians, blow them up. Don’t like Muslims, stick them in a Ghetto like the Gaza strip with walls around it.”

    Please don’t associate all those with faith in God with religion. I have no argument with religion at its core, but I’m not a particularly religious person. My faith in God is strong, though. I mind neither abortion doctors, Christians, nor Muslims and have never attacked any nor supported the ghettoization of any.

    “2) A good percentage of wars are in God’s name. Look how George Bush and his Christian supporters are waging a Crusade right now. I think we have a right to show how dangerous religion is.”

    It’s true. I’m not Christian. I’m not even very religious. But I’m sure you’ll find plenty of Christians who disagree with this war and understand that the thing being fought over is ego, which is the antithesis of God.

    “3) You religious people shove it in our faces. Instead of posting the fact that you are religious by posting “our prayers are with them” why not keep it to yourself. I don’t want to hear about the fact that you believe in an imaginary person in the sky. See your psychiatrist instead.”

    Again, I’m not religious. However, this is my personal blog which you voluntarily visit. You’re free to leave at any time. Nothing is being shoved in your face.

    I don’t believe in an old man in the sky hurling lightning bolts, and I’m sorry that that’s your only concept of God. I hope that if you ever face a situation in your life which you find to be beyond your own human coping skills, that you will be willing to open yourself up to something greater.

    Yes, my God was behind that plane crash and the Holocaust. I had family members — dead now — with prisoner tattoos from the Holocaust. They accepted it and maintained their faith. I accept these things. I don’t pretend to understand His will or His plan, and I don’t hope to. I pray for acceptance and faith every day. I’ve found it makes life exceptionally more bearable. And when I say that my prayers are with the families of the injured and killed, I guess that’s what I’m hoping for: that these people find the inner strength to accept what they’re facing, to have faith, and to walk through this crisis and emerge whole and perhaps stronger. If you ever face a similar situation, I would want the same for you.

  • Ok! So we’re agreed.
    a) There may or may not be a God.
    b) If there is, He’s/It’s definitely not Benevolent, and it wouldn’t matter if He was, because we’ve all got free will to fuck everything up anyhoo; and
    c) Praying doesn’t work except to make ourselves feel better (may I also recommend barbituates).
    d) What we think is irrelevant to reality.

  • angie Says:

    September 20th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
    this is so sad, they are both tremendously talented people.
    however, does anyone else find it wierd that it was travis and am – the only two famous people- who survived the crash, while everyone else passed?
    how ironic.

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    I thought and even said the same thing….i think it was a set up i really do….

  • Man I didn’t know there were so many stupidly funny people reading this blog. That’s awesome…makes it more fun.

    Beet always rants, “It’s MY blog, my blog damn it, my blog….wait…who’s blog is it?….. MY PERSONAL BLOG!” And then I look over at the public ads on here and laugh my ass off. That’s why I keep coming to this site, cus the Beet’s hilarious. But this time… she’s ABSOLUTEY right (I can’t believe I said that)… When 92% of the world believes in a deity that’s ubiquitou in one form or another there’s a good chance it might come up in a gossip blog at some point.

    The funniest thing from this awesome discussion is that, there’s only one thing that everyone here is sure of:

    Donkey Poo believes in God more than anyone else in here.

    Donkey Poo is obviously a very intelligent person and is having trouble dealing with irrational ideas and uncompromising thoughts that extend beyond the realm of his own cognition. If he REALLY believed that there was “no God” he would be secure with his belief and content in his reasoning unless he had something to gain personally by arguing the latter.

    If Beet had written “I’m waiting for Santa Clause to bring me a dildo, or the Tooth Fairy to come and fix my broken tooth” on her blog would we be hearing vehement debate and long winded support for there non-existance? Doubtful… We’d all be thinking about a Jewish girl in santa panties with a busted tooth and a dildo.

    So then why would an intelligent and cerebral person harbor such strong feelings toward the quintessential non-existance of something that he doesn’t believe in, in the first place? He ultimately knows two inevitable facts… 1. That just because a majority of people support an idea it doesn’t factually or scientifically make that idea right. And 2. that anyone who believes strongly in the the existance of God will not be dissuaded in a comment box on a celebrity blog. Which means…

    Donkey Poo you’re definitely a smart dude, but… You’re not trying to convince us…. You’re trying to convince yourself…… Good luck with that.

    I’m glad I’m a dumb ass.

  • Man I didn’t know there were so many stupidly funny people reading this blog. That’s awesome…makes it more fun.

    Beet always rants, “It’s MY blog, my blog damn it, my blog….wait…who’s blog is it?….. MY PERSONAL BLOG!” And then I look over at the public ads on here and laugh my ass off. That’s why I keep coming to this site, cus the Beet’s hilarious. But this time… she’s ABSOLUTEY right (I can’t believe I said that)… When 92% of the world believes in a deity that’s ubiquitou in one form or another there’s a good chance it might come up in a gossip blog at some point.

    The funniest thing from this awesome discussion is that, there’s only one thing that everyone here is sure of:

    Donkey Poo believes in God more than anyone else in here.

    Donkey Poo is obviously a very intelligent person and is having trouble dealing with irrational ideas and uncompromising thoughts that extend beyond the realm of his own cognition. If he REALLY believed that there was “no God” he would be secure with his belief and content in his reasoning unless he had something to gain personally by arguing the latter.

    If Beet had written “I’m waiting for Santa Clause to bring me a dildo, or the Tooth Fairy to come and fix my broken tooth” on her blog would we be hearing vehement debate and long winded support for there non-existance? Doubtful… We’d all be thinking about a Jewish girl in santa panties with a busted tooth and a dildo.

    So then why would an intelligent and cerebral person harbor such strong feelings toward the quintessential non-existance of something that he doesn’t believe in, in the first place? He ultimately knows two inevitable facts… 1. That just because a majority of people support an idea it doesn’t factually or scientifically make that idea right. And 2. that anyone who believes strongly in the the existance of God will not be dissuaded in a comment box on a celebrity blog. Which means…

    Donkey Poo you’re definitely a smart dude, but… You’re not trying to convince us…. You’re trying to convince yourself…… Good luck with that.

    I’m glad I’m a dumb ass.

  • Ohh, Miss Mart. I like the way you twisted what I said. It’s cute. But, I would like to just clear something up from your statement. I never once said that people pray to make themselves feel better. People pray because they have faith sweetheart. It’s funny how in DP’s rant, he generalizes christians to be soo evil. But saying everyone who believes in God is evil, is like saying all muslims are islamic terrorists. Don’t sit here and insult people who believe, as if they “need to see a psychiatrist”, when most them are probably more intelligent than you.

  • Those poor men. I hope they recover as quickly and painlessly as possible. As for the rest of you – leave your computers, cease ranting and go outside and enjoy your good health and good fortune. Sheesh.

  • > If Beet had written “I’m waiting for Santa Clause to bring me a dildo,

    Negative, I would not question that because Beet always complains about being frustrated. I believe she would ask Santa for a little helping hand.

    By the way, I suspect Beet is really TSS.

  • DP wrote “1) Religious people are the most judgemental people on the planet and are constantly bashing people who are of a different faith than them. Don’t like abortion doctors? Shoot them. Don’t like Christians, blow them up. Don’t like Muslims, stick them in a Ghetto like the Gaza strip with walls around it.”

    i have to agree with you. RELIGIOUS people, whatever their beliefs, have made inhumane choices in the name of their religions. wars are started by religious people in the name of their gods. lives are destroyed by their inflexibility and fanaticism.

    but i believe that a distinction needs to be drawn between a religious person and a person of faith. as a person of the Christian faith, i take comfort in the knowledge that i have a God who has been there and done whatever i am going to experience, even death.

    many people of faith absolutely cringe when their beliefs are used to subjugate and harm others. we are sickened and saddened at that kind of bastardization.

    i hope you will see the distinction and when we as people of faith offer prayers of hope and strength and courage to someone who has been injured it is not to raise ourselves up, but to lift up and comfort the person who needs to be healed.