text: is this attempted man slaughter ??? details follow ...? when i was around 18 i got the job on the family farm to run the wheat combine !!!  one of these ... http://www.deere.com/en_us/productcatalog/fr/series/combine_wts.html  accept much older, it was a 45h hillside combine, you could tilt from right to left about 20 degrees with the hydraulics and automatic.  for the first time i ever used it my dad took me out small field on the side of a small hill and i ran it and harvested the grain.  he did not give me any instruction that i can remember.  he might have shown me the basic transmission and levers but that is all, nothing about how to used the header, front cuter, or how fast to go or any basic operation of how it works.  then next he took me to a hill nearby that was extremely steep.  after 5 years of doing that work that hill turned out to be the steepest and most dangerous hill i ever harvested !!!  he left immediately after he showed it to me and told me to do it, also no truck driver showed up for an unusually long time ??? where you hurt? by the defination of the word there is never an "attempted" as manslaughter is always unintention.  at 18 you were an adult and able to walk away from a situation you felt was unsafe. it may have been careless of your father, but it does not sound malicious.  man·slaugh·ter  noun : the unlawful killing of a human being without express or implied malice