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My daddy always said . . .

you could knock a helicopter out of the sky with a well-placed rock. He would know since he was in four of them when they went down. In New Mexico, someone shot one out of the sky:

A Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department helicopter that crashed Saturday in the yard of an Albuquerque home was brought down by a bullet, Sheriff Darren White said late Tuesday.

At a news conference in New Mexico, White showed pictures of where a bullet penetrated the windshield of the aircraft, known as Metro One, and shattered on a pedal the pilot uses to fly the helicopter.

CounterTop says:

What do you want to bet that whoever shot down the New Mexican Police Chopper was using a .50 Caliber.

Even if he wasn’t, I bet it will be reported he was.

4 Responses to “My daddy always said . . .”

  1. cube Says:

    I suspect that the guy (I assume it was a man) was woken up in the middle of the night by a low flying heli and decided to do somthing about it.

  2. homebru Says:

    I’m almost willing to bet that the report will credit “an unlicensed .50-caliber AK-47 assault rifle”.

    Cover all them bases.

  3. Marc Says:

    How does a round that “shattered” on a control pedal bring down a helicopter?

    In Los Angeles the cops have said that they “often” found bullet holes in their ‘copters and yet I’ve never heard of a golden BB taking one down.

    Countertop and Homebru must be right since only a .50 cal AK is designed to take down an aircraft. Did you say that this took place at a schoolyard in Stockton?

  4. Mark Says:

    David Drake once described a chopper as an aluminum-framed aluminum-skinned box with a lot of easy to damage stuff inside. He wasn’t kidding…

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