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| poboxdc@ix.netcom.com 2005-08-25, 10:57 pm |
| Rocks Thrown at Border Patrol Chopper
Aug 25 3:31 PM US/Eastern
YUMA, Ariz.
Illegal immigrants threw rocks at a Border Patrol helicopter,
forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing when one of the rocks
damaged the rotor, the agency said.
Neither the pilot nor the Border Patrol observer was injured.
The A-Star helicopter was two miles west of the U.S. Port of
Entry in Andrade, Calif., on Tuesday when a group of immigrants
began throwing rocks at the aircraft.
One baseball-sized rock gashed the rotor, forcing the pilot to
land nearby, said Michael Gramley, spokesman for the Border
Patrol sector based in Yuma, Ariz.
Gramley said he did not know how high the helicopter was
hovering when it was struck, but he said it was being repaired
and is expected back in service soon.
After the incident, 17 people were apprehended for illegally
crossing the border, and two of them were being investigated for
smuggling. Ten immigrants evaded capture.
The investigation into the rock-throwing was continuing.
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Perhaps we should arm the copter with machine guns and fire back?
KM
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| Jay Beckman 2005-08-25, 10:57 pm |
| Exactly my thought:
Just shoot back...
Jay B
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| Aluckyguess 2005-08-26, 8:56 am |
| All they have to do is go down to our local Home Depot and they could pick
up 200 of them on any day of the week. Now if they pull a truck over with
10-15 it makes the news. I just dont get it.
I do think there is going to be some sort of crack down. There is a lot of
talk on the radio these days.
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| Skywise 2005-08-27, 8:55 am |
| poboxdc@ix.netcom.com wrote in news:430E7F04.1AFD5812@ix.netcom.com:
> Rocks Thrown at Border Patrol Chopper
<Snipola>
I just got done reading the 63 replies (currently) to this post.
I'm not going ot get into the illegal alien issue since that
seems to be getting addressed quite nicely.
What I want to mention is that no one has addressed the issue of
a helicopter getting hit with a baseball sized rock thrown from
the ground!
Either the guy had a hell of an arm or that chopper was pretty low.
I'd be curious to know what it was doing so low, unless it was
in the act of landing or taking off. Patrolling the border is
something best done from a bit of altitude. I would think they'd
be operating above the deadmans curve, not below it.
Brian
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