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Me too; I think they're fantastic and fascinating; for a variety of reasons.
I always point to where the pot growers are but they either don't notice
or that's not what they're here for.
They can't really drive around in a car looking and find it.
I think busting pot growers and/or other illegal activity is a great use of our tax payer money.
Sometimes it's Helco checking the lines and sometimes it's tourist copters and sometimes it's a rescue....all valid reasons.
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Doesn't bother me and I have NEVER felt like a criminal here! Makes me wonder about those who always look over their shoulder.
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Yes, I recognize that I am in the minority here. Not the first time. I know most people don't like the helicopters. I like them a lot. I associate them with rescue, if rescue is needed (such as in New Orleans in the Katrina aftermath), and with tourism in our region (which I think is a positive economic development that reminds me there is something special worth seeing here, unlike, in say, Cincinatti). They also remind me of the miracle of flight, just a century old. Their noise is less than my neighbor's lawnmower (or my own!) and quite transient. There is a small invasion of privacy at times, but the violation is minimal.
I find the irritation at helicopters puzzling, although I think every one has a right to be irritated and irritated based on their own chosen source of irritation. I moved here from a very busy urban environment and when I hear a helicopter, I kinda feel like Gilligan when the radio starts crackling and there are signs of civilization. I love them. I feel like Amelia Earhart marooned on a small island other than Howland Island, her destination. I want to tear off my clothing and wave it in the air.
Perhaps they are more annoying if you are right on a regular route to the sites. If they are doing marijuana interdiction, I do find that a waste of Federal and local funds and annoying in the abstract and something worth fighting against.
I think I did observe a very close call today though, directly overhead and fairly low. I cannot imagine flight rules that would allow two helicopters as close as I observed today.....they were on one single vertical plane (line straight up and down from my patio), and not separated horizontally by very much. Possibly a reportable incident.
Other than that, bless ém all....the long, the short and the tall.
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Well it will be Drones soon... so the noise will be lessened. And they can look you right in the face
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Well, I was on the night shift and didn't get back home 'til about 4am Thursday morning and got woken up by low flying helicopters later in the morning. I appreciate some people like them and some don't; I don't, and it's not because I'm growing stuff in the back yard.
The tourist helicopters aren't usually a problem although some days they like to fly a lot of their helicopters overhead and it gets a little annoying. The green harvest stuff means low flying helicopters that will often hang around for a while over a neighbor's house and it's impossible to sleep through. Bear in mind that these are neighbors that moved in a long time after I moved here so it's not an issue of knowing what I let myself into.
I remember visiting Belfast in the early 90s when the troubles were pretty bad. Brit army helicopters would hover for ages over certain areas and no one could sleep, it was a war zone. Sometimes it feels like that here, especially when you're tired, just got home from work and just want to sleep...
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I like helicopters too. And maybe this will make the drug dealers and growers move out of Puna.
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I don't think people hate helicopters. They just hate Green harvest helicopters. And most tourist ones too. The actual aircraft however, is a pretty fascinating piece of work!
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I like helicopters too. And maybe this will make the drug dealers and growers move out of Puna.
Should legitimate and law-abiding residents be made to put up with the noise and privacy-intrusion too?
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Should we ban police cars from patrolling or using their sirens? A few minutes of noise a month, I can take it.
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You're comparing apples with oranges. I'm on a quiet street that as far as I can recall has never had a cop car using its siren. On the other hand I have had helicopters hovering very low overhead searching my yard for drugs I do not grow and taking in the view of what I thought was my personal and private property. I am a law abiding citizen. I don't grow drugs. I don't annoy my neighbors and do nothing illegal.
Why should I have my life disrupted by helicopters hovering over my house invading my privacy and my right to a peaceful and lawful existence?
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