This is going around the net titled: “Psycho complains about “rogue helicopter pilot.” I personally do not see this guy as a pyscho but instead a concerned citizen. What do you think?
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I prefer the phrase ‘schizophrenic’, but if I had to choose, I’d say ‘psycho’.
If the helicopter was so close, why didn’t he just take down the N number, look it up in the FAA database, and contact the owner? I think he’s disturbed.
Personally if a chopper did that over my house I’ll pull out a .45 and blast it a few times. That would give the guy something to think about. Hell even a good slingshot might work or a rock into the rotor.
Uh… earth paging Dvorak… come in Dvorak…
First off, this never happened. Obviously. I don’t need to tell you what a kook is. Secondly, you would not drop a helicopter out of the sky onto your house unless you enjoy watching your house explode in flames or having flying rotors chop off interesting body parts that you weren’t finished yet.
I’m sure it was one of those BLACK helicopters.
Why are you all sure that this didn’t happen?
Yes his reaction seems a bit extreme, but I have seen other individuals that loose their cool when talking to “officials” about things that affect them personally, especially when it seems that those officials are not treating it seriously.
John: So are you seriously saying you would risk the chance of bringing down a helicopter over a residential area? If you are, then you have lost a lot of credibility.
Paul, didn’t you hear how he talked about other unrelated past incidents and also talked gibberish? He wasn’t rational — not even irrational — but psycho irrational. This man obviously has problems.
This is honestly the third time I’ve made this comment on a video today…
“Oops! hehe! Someone forgot to take their meds :-O”
The reason he spoke so quickly is because they were going to cut him off. He asked for extra time to speak at the very beginning and was denied. HIs choices were either make half a statement or speak very quickly.
Obviously he’s pissed off but I wouldn’t say phycho. If I made a complaint about a helicoptor over my house on a given night and filed through the Freedom of Information Act to get that information. Then all I received a document that was completely redacted, I would be pissed off to! Obviously there is something valid about his claim if he got that document in responce to his query.
Charlie… he references government agencies which have little or no chance of even caring he exists. He referenced Homeland Security. Is a helicopter flying over one man’s house really a matter of homeland security?
He’s clearly a loon.
It’s so sad…
Seemed to me like a comedy routine perfromed in an unsual venue and a funny one to boot.
John, surely you know that firing at aircraft is a serious, serious felony. I’d hate to think that you might be even a tiny bit serious when you speak of blasting away at an aircraft over your home with a .45.
At the end I think he was accusing the city councilman of being in the white helicopter!
Correction to my comment 15: he said “George Shinn” was in the helicopter. I looked that up, and he’s the owner of the Charlotte Hornets basketball team, and a local Charlotte businessman. That’s where the comments about the Charlotte ice arena and different sports leagues come in. He thinks he’s being persecuted for opposing some deal involving a sports arena.
This what can happen if you confuse your hemorrhoid cream with your toothpaste. That’ll ruin anyone’s day.
The real travesty is the lack of ice in the arena…to keep out competing tenants! (?!)
I haven’t seen prose like that since Austin Powers!
(“A sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament”)
I wonder if the neighbors can corroborate his story. If this did happen, I bet he has a few less shingles on his roof.
It wouldn’t be the first time someone pulled a stupid stunt in an aircraft. If true, the pilot will definitely lose his license.
As for writing down the aircraft’s number, I don’t think tail numbers on helicopters are lit up at night like they often are one fixed wing aircraft. He would have had to have the presence of mind to grab a flashlight to see them.
Well, that’s my fair city. 🙁