Earlier this spring, a lawsuit went viral. It involved a snowmobiler, Jeff Smith, who'd been riding home one evening when he crashed head-on into a military Black Hawk helicopter that had landed on an empty airfield, which also was home to a snowmobile trail.
The story went across the internet as Smith had been riding the sled at night and at a high rate of speed when he and the helicopter met face-to-face. And while he argued that the Black Hawk crew had been negligent in its lack of identifying it had landed on the airfield, the vast majority of internet denizens and commenters asked a pretty valid question, i.e. "Why was he riding faster than the conditions allowed?"
