This Is The Last…

I read this on Gawker last week, and I could hardly believe it.

Sometimes, the gods are tired of whispering that you should get the hell out of New York, and they raise their voices a bit — not once, but twice. Turns out that Kathleen Caronna, whose apartment bedroom was destroyed by the impact of Cory Lidle’s plane, was also the same woman nearly killed by a rampaging six-story Cat in the Hat balloon during the 1997 Macy’s Thanksgiving parade. (Not to be confused with the rampaging M&M balloon during the 2005 parade.) Caronna was in a coma for a month, though she eventually recovered and won an undisclosed but no doubt handsome settlement from Macy’s. In a stroke of luck — or at least, less bad luck — Caronna wasn’t home during the plane crash, though she was en route there. Perhaps it’s time for a nice home in the country, with no tall buildings, aircraft, or parades.