A tragedy waiting to happen given Wikileaks hubris and recklessness.

Or are there other grade-crossing tragedies just waiting to happen?

And, as in each of those cases, the public wants answers so that maybe the next tragedy waiting to happen will not.

"He was a tragedy waiting to happen," said his aunt, Joanne Patterson.

One said he saw him drunk several times and thought of him as "a tragedy waiting to happen."

"Every American without health insurance is an American tragedy waiting to happen," he said.

"That's the change in the type of people coming here, and it is a tragedy waiting to happen," Ms. Bitterman said.

Sound bite: "Celebrity models are a tragedy waiting to happen."

An unlicensed gun is a tragedy waiting to happen.

"This was a tragedy waiting to happen," she said.