Proof that, I too, can be as sharp as a marble.

dahmnait · Jan 30, 2007

I live in a decent neighborhood. It's not great, but it isn't bad by any means. However, I have lived in places where expect to hear the sheriff's helicopters circling. And we still get them out here on occasion. Like today, I am sitting in my office and I hear the copter circling. They are announcing something over the PA system. I can hear, "white cap....black clothes....carrying a.....call...."

So what do I do, I walk outside to hear better.

Not five minutes later I hear the same sheriff announcing, "Face on the ground. This is the Sheriff's Department." The helicopter is circling the apartments next to ours.

It made me wonder why I felt the need to walk outside when I heard the first announcement.

Del · Jan 30, 2007

If someone yells "Get down!" the first thing anyone is going to do is look to see why.

It is a wonder we are not extinct.

Akuma · Jan 30, 2007

Hey, it's survival of the fittest.

In those situations of danger, I just fling a child in front of me and run away.

Truly, I am a marvel of evolution.

Vincent · Jan 30, 2007

I knew a guy back in highschool who was chased across his own farm by a helicopter because he was wearing orange overalls. There had been a prison break a couple miles down the road.

Of course, running from the helicopter probably didn't help.

Bmwhtly · Jan 31, 2007

The only thing to do when you hear armed police outside is ask your noisy neighbours to you a favour.

"What kind of favour"
"Run outside shouting 'You'll Never Take Me Alive'"

TsukiRyoko · Jan 31, 2007

Those helicopters circle around here as well. For the first few months, I sat out on the porch with an eRase-Me board and marker, writing messages to them (i.e. "Go lower, you're gonna hit the limbo stick!" and "Glad you came- my toaster's broken! Help!") then I figured out that they were probably after me. So now, I never leave. Ever.

J. Weiland · Jan 31, 2007

TsukiRyoko said:
Those helicopters circle around here as well. For the first few months, I sat out on the porch with an eRase-Me board and marker, writing messages to them (i.e. "Go lower, you're gonna hit the limbo stick!" and "Glad you came- my toaster's broken! Help!") then I figured out that they were probably after me. So now, I never leave. Ever.

You could always hide in the tree-house.

TsukiRyoko · Jan 31, 2007

J. Weiland said:
You could always hide in the tree-house.

I can't anymore. I thought it'd be a good idea to paint the walls with gasoline, and it DID look really cool when it was done. The only problem was that I lit a victory cigarette afterward.

SpookyWriter · Jan 31, 2007

TsukiRyoko said:
I can't anymore. I thought it'd be a good idea to paint the walls with gasoline, and it DID look really cool when it was done. The only problem was that I lit a victory cigarette afterward.

Christine N. · Jan 31, 2007

I have the distinction of being in the flightpath of all the flyovers for the Eagles' games.

During the playoffs, my house shook and I thought something was crashing in the backyard.

What's really weird is to watch them on TV and hear them over your house at the same time.

Stew21 · Jan 31, 2007

Christine N. said:
I have the distinction of being in the flightpath of all the flyovers for the Eagles' games.

During the playoffs, my house shook and I thought something was crashing in the backyard.

What's really weird is to watch them on TV and hear them over your house at the same time.

I work really close to the St. Louis Airport, and Boeing and The Missouri Air National Guard.
We get to see and hear all sorts of cool flying machines. Sometimes you can't talk to the person standing next to you if you're outside.

icerose · Jan 31, 2007

All we get around here are search and rescue helicopters because there are always stupid people who don't say where they are going, who don't watch the weather, who don't bother taking a compass and so forth and end up getting lost in the mountains.

I mean we're talking about the Rockies here, ground level around here is 6000 feet above sea level. It doesn't take a real genius to know, "Gee, this could be a little dangerous, maybe we should be prepared before going out."

They take cell phones as their back up. Oh that's brilliant, since they only work half the time in the valley, let's take it on the mountain where we get zero reception!

Del · Jan 31, 2007

I used to live near Norfolk, VA. We often had the pleasure of watching (and hearing) the Blue Angels practice. It was amazing at times. I hadn't known a fighter jet could hover with its nose skyward.

As for "the eye in the sky' I was playing with one once. A friend and I managed to get ones attention and played it to the fullest. We darted and hid and he chased us and searched when he lost sight of us. It was fun until the cop that had followed my busted taillight into the complex walked up behind us.

(Sigh) It is always the one you don't see...

dahmnait · Feb 1, 2007

It is nice to know that I am not the only marble in the bunch.

Del · Feb 1, 2007

dahmnait said:
It is nice to know that I am not the only marble in the bunch.

Well, no, you aren't but that doesn't mean you aren't just a [SUP]little [/SUP]more cracked.

Pomegranate · Feb 2, 2007

We recently had an old man with dementia get lost in the canyons around our neighborhood and they sent the loudspeaker/helicopter around looking for him.

We also life on the flight path for a hospital's lifeflight helicopter, a military air base, and a police station. Husband swears he can tell which copter is which by the sound. I assume he's right, but the all just sound "loud" to me.

A. Hamilton · Feb 2, 2007

Okay you cracked marble you, umm, I would have done the same thing. How else would you hear the description of who they're searching for?
(wonder what we'd do if we caught him!)

TsukiRyoko · Feb 2, 2007

Pomegranate said:
We recently had an old man with dementia get lost in the canyons around our neighborhood and they sent the loudspeaker/helicopter around looking for him.

We also life on the flight path for a hospital's lifeflight helicopter, a military air base, and a police station. Husband swears he can tell which copter is which by the sound. I assume he's right, but the all just sound "loud" to me.

This means your husband's dont a lot of running from them. I can tell a state or cop car just by the sound and the headlights, and I run from them all time.

Pomegranate · Feb 5, 2007

TsukiRyoko said:
This means your husband's dont a lot of running from them. I can tell a state or cop car just by the sound and the headlights, and I run from them all time.

LOL! - I can't remotely picture my straight-arrow husband running from the cops. He didn't even have a dissolute youth! (But who knows, maybe he could be planning to take up a life of reckless behavior in his 50s.)

TsukiRyoko · Feb 5, 2007

Pomegranate said:
LOL! - I can't remotely picture my straight-arrow husband running from the cops. He didn't even have a dissolute youth! (But who knows, maybe he could be planning to take up a life of reckless behavior in his 50s.)

He'd better be! My philosophy is that everyone's gotta roll with the dark side for a while, or life just isn't worth living! I mean, can you really call a lifetime of playing by the rules a REAL life? No! You have to see the nitty-gritty! You have to be that naked, drunk guy with piss all over his legs running from 8 cruisers and a K-9 unit while still chugging the beer bong and dragging along a wheelchair! You have to hang from rafters at a mosh pit spitting on the heads of other people! You have to tie the president's shoelaces to his desk and rig his toilet up with fireworks! BE the life, LIVE the life!

veinglory · Feb 5, 2007

Akuma said:
Hey, it's survival of the fittest.

In those situations of danger, I just fling a child in front of me and run away.

Truly, I am a marvel of evolution.

Assuming the child isn't related to you, otherwise Aunty Evolution would be quite annoyed.

icerose · Feb 5, 2007

Pomegranate said:
We also life on the flight path for a hospital's lifeflight helicopter, a military air base, and a police station. Husband swears he can tell which copter is which by the sound. I assume he's right, but the all just sound "loud" to me.

They do have different sounds. Each helicopter design has a different rotor configuration. They have varying numbers of blades, their size and length, and one helicopter even has two sets of rotors that spin in opposite directions. This disrupts the air in unique ways, giving them their own frequency, thus their own unique sound. So you really can tell the type of helicopter merely by the sound.

In case anyone was curious...

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