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Sully's hat goes for $5,800
Schools & Kids, posted by Editor, Danville Weekly Online, on Dec 14, 2009 at 7:04 pm

The bidding ended today at $5,800 for the pilot's cap belonging to Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger. The eBay auction was held to raise money for Dougherty Valley High School and its sister school, Lockwood Elementary School in Oakland.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, December 14, 2009, 5:51 PM

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Posted by Julia, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood, on Dec 15, 2009 at 6:44 am

WOW...Where has this one been hiding...needs to take a little break. I was just wondering what the rest of his clothes would go for...I assuming the lucky sucker that wasted $5,800 lives in Danville the Hero's home town. There are so many small thinkers out there. But it get me thinking...I wonder if one of Mr. Woods fun girls kept his shorts or a shirt or something. We the stupid people don't really care if he's a hero or a golfer...put it on e-bay and watch the crazies.

Well, I hope the $5800 go to go use...like a pay hike to the teachers, wow, that will really get the kids smarter.

I thinks its time for my 2nd cup of coffee.

I'll be back, Julia


Posted by Diane, a resident of the Danville neighborhood, on Dec 15, 2009 at 7:21 am

Dickita P! Don't leave us - you crack me up!

Sully and his family were thrust into the spotlight and have taken the opportunity to help out a couple of schools, etc. I think it is great that they are managing to help others in the midst of all this press coverage. I think I would have tried to get away until it all died down and missed some philanthropic opportunities.


Posted by Dick P, a resident of the Danville neighborhood, on Dec 15, 2009 at 10:48 am

I'd like to know how much he'll sell his American Hero-print underdrawers. Because I'd like to buy them. As a former American Hero myself, I'd like to see what a fellow American Hero is made of in a stressful situation like that. I was in B-17s over the commies. We could compare results.

Also, I'm glad all that money went to those "teachers" at those new-age falafel-snorting Howard-Zinn-sipping it-takes-a-villageing tree-sitting catch-and-release-fishing family-lip-kissing American-Hero-underdrawers-not-buying commie fascist marxist Obamaist osamaist Bowmanist breeding grounds they call public schools these days. Now they can afford to buy those nutty kids a haircut.


Posted by ...., a resident of the Danville neighborhood, on Dec 15, 2009 at 10:58 am

Yep. One big collective haircut..... sheesh.


Posted by Gunslinger .45, a resident of the Danville neighborhood, on Dec 15, 2009 at 12:10 pm

Soon DVHS will be teaching around 35 kids a class (oh what a nightmare!). We the people are tired of funding these wimps who whine about having to teach more than 20 kids, saying that it harms the kids to have more per class (bull!), when really they're just selfish thieves who know that smaller class sizes means we have to pay for more teachers. They take our money, a lot of it (that $10billion of stimulus that went to California went almost entirely to keeping these uselessly numerous teachers). Meanwhile our infrastructure is crumbling, which is truly a life or death safety issue. And then on top of all that, these arrogant, snooty, effeminate creeps think they're entitled to proactively work against everything we teach our children about morals and culture, diminshing our ancestors accomplishments while lauding those of demographics not our own


Posted by Wang Pu, a resident of the Walnut Creek neighborhood, on Dec 15, 2009 at 10:56 pm

Ahh yes, Gunslinger .45, you touch not-so-delicately on the importance of the ancestors in public funding! For two decades I have supported more funding to building monuments to our ancestors, specifically Uncle Cho and Great-Aunt Maude, who visited the Grand Canyon 45 times! Sadly, the idiot policy makers have consistently refused to take schools' money and create a life-size Grand Canyon in Alamo to correctly honor these two great ancestors of ours.


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