Posted for "Tom Gourley" <tom.gourley@verizon.net>:

 I thought this horse was so dead even the glue would be dried out.
 
 I don't see how you can draw a parallel between a pilot with incredibly poor
judgement stunting over a residential area, nowhere near a traffic pattern,
and getting in way over his head, with executing a planned manuever to
landing.  No halfway responsible pilot would even begin to consider what this
pilot apparently did as "risk free stuff".  It had nothing to do with
executing an overhead break to landing.  I don't recall any of the previous
posts that were in favor of the overhead break having any flavor of "when you
are really bored in the pattern just go low and fast and throw in a few barrel
rolls to impress the neighbors".  That's a cheap shot.
 
 Jeff, you're actually hurting your case by comparing this disaster to a well
executed landing manuever.
 
 Tom Gourley