Helicopter surveillance/harassment

[StillHope]

May be the helicopter was looking for this ?:[]

"Bear and I know these two visitors from New York who managed to get lost in Seaview. You may be asking, "How does one get lost in Seaview?" Well, you would have to know these two guys to really understand, and it WAS night. They weren't even supposed to be in Seaview, but turned in there by mistake. Anyway after wandering around the fringes of the subdivision for half an hour or so without finding a way out, they decided to go knock on the door of the next house they came to and ask for directions. Big mistake.

Now these two visitors were an air traffic controller and his skinny, hyperactive Dominican boyfriend who grew up in Spanish Harlem, and for some reason they both went to the house. The guy who answered the door was apparently expecting someone else because he was holding a huge bag of marijuana. (The Dominican said it was about seven pounds, and he would know.) The guy answering door threw down the pot and pulled out a rusty revolver which he proceeded to wave while screaming in Japanese. Air traffic controller guy starts backing away from the door while murmuring soothingly about how sorry he is to bother anyone.

Now the Dominican boyfriend is from Spanish Freaking Harlem and isn't afraid of any damn thing. He starts screaming back at the guy with the gun, "Where the hell you think you are? This ain't Afghanistan! This ain't the effing jungle! Oh wait, maybe it IS the jungle, but you can't act like this. And who in their right effing mind answers the door like that!" Air traffic controller guy is at the point of soiling his pants when Dominican boyfriend says, "I'm late for dinner and can't deal with you now." He then calmly walked back to the car, followed by cowering air traffic controller guy. Somehow nobody got shot.

So this would be a good time to find a way out of Seaview, but nooooo. They're still lost, and after driving another ten minutes or so find themselves back in front of Japanese pot guy's house. He is still looking for his REAL visitor and begins screaming and waving his gun in the street when he sees the two visitors again. This time, they speed away and find the way out.

Bear and I know all these details because we got to listen to air traffic controller guy chewing out Dominican boyfriend and repeating all the details for the next three days. Dominican boyfriend got dumped as soon as they got back to the mainland.
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Cheers,
Jerry
Edited by - JerryCarr on 01/23/2009 09:33:10"

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For those who are new to the forum - Seaview is a very nice and safe subdivision.That story,dubbed by Glen "an instant PW classic" ,is just that -a story.
One day Jerry will make Puna famous!


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[Kapohocat]

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Originally posted by StillHope...
For those who are new to the forum - Seaview is a very nice and safe subdivision.That story,dubbed by Glen "an instant PW classic" ,is just that -a story.
One day Jerry will make Puna famous!...

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LOL. Seaview was the wild west back in the day. And that day wasn't that long ago.

It is certainly much tamer now - just argeeing over Special Use permits. But a gun and a bag of pot would not have been unusual in the past. I think there was a time when neighbors were fighting over Helco poles coming to Sea View... SV and their guns made the front page of the HTH.

[StillHope]

I heard about electric poles.It was 20-25 years ago.Was the whole Puna wild west then?


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[mailesomaha]

I'm sorry they're disrupting to some people.

We LOVE them. I mean, if they were from Iraq I might be concerned.

They flew over the hood the other day. If they were looking for pot, they surely would have swooped down here, but they left without ado.

Sometimes, we moon them. Yes, we show them our arse. Someone, somewhere probably has a pic of our arses on their FBI bulletin board.

But, mostly, we are in awe of the pilots. We practically kill ourselves on our little 100cc dirt bikes. I can't imagine flying a craft; must be magical.

[Dave Smith]

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Originally posted by StillHope

I heard about electric poles.It was 20-25 years ago.Was the whole Puna wild west then?

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The dispute about electrical poles in the 1990s focused mostly on the electrification of Seaview, Kehena and another nearby subdivision, Puna Palisades, I believe. While there were some who didn't want to see that kind of progress at all, most of the resistance centered on some residents' insistence that the wires be put underground so they wouldn't mar the view. HELCO, however, maintained that it would have been way too costly since that would have required digging almost entirely into rock. Since the utility was footing the bill, it prevailed and poles were used.

For some wilder stuff, you have the efforts beginning about 40 years ago to put telephone and electrical poles into some of the upper Puna subdivisions, particularly Fern Forest. There were a number of occasions there where pole crews heard what they took to be warning gunshots as they made their way into the subdivision. When I lived in FF in the mid-1970s it was not unusual to see bullet holes in all types of signage.

Regarding lower Puna, there was the time (in the late 1970s or early '80s, I believe) when someone fired a few gunshots one night into the entrance of what is now the Pahoa Village Cafe (I think it was called the Pahoa Inn at the time). Such incidents were rather isolated but are what helped earn Puna its "Wild West" image.

And in the vein of rebellious residents, there were the more recent efforts by a small group that fought the county's plans to repave Highway 137 with black asphalt, saying that they wanted to "keep the Red Road red." But that's a story for another day ....



***Edited to change Highway 130 to Highway 137. While the former is the Kalapana Highway, the latter is of course the famed coastal Red Road, which earned its name from the original red cinder paving***

[pam jones]

This thread is yet another reminder of why I hardly ever even log onto it any more. I swear some of the posts (post-ers) remind me of the elementary school play ground. It is no fun being accused of using an alias if ones name happens to be Jones or Smith, so let's just behave like the adults we are and all try to get along. There is enough b.s. and war in the world to keep it afloat forever. So sad

[dmbwest]

Dear Pam,

Please keep writing here ... I like your style.

aloha,
pog