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Your Most Interesting Helicopter Adventure
Do you have an interesting adventure story involving a helicopter that
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Okay folks..... I'll go first.
Many years ago when I owned a camera store in a northern community, the local paper had approached the mall I was in with the idea of doing a ping pong ball drop from a helicopter as part of the mall's anniversary celebrations. A buddy of mine who worked for this newspaper had come up with the idea and found a source of cheap ping pong balls, and his wife had agreed to dye these balls in various colours. The different colours represented various rates of discounts in the mall stores. I can remember going over to visit them one nite and there she was sitting on her living room floor with a couple of those old washerwomen's galvanized tubs full of dye and ping pong balls. There were balls everywhere. Now her real reward for doing all this work, was that on the appointed day she got to ride in the helicopter, and she got to drop the balls. About ten thousand of them. On the appointed day me and my bud went up on the roof of this mall and enjoyed coffee and donuts as we watched thousands of people show up for this event and mill about the parking lot. It was quite the sight and it got better when the helicopter showed up and began a slow circular movement about a hundred feet above the crowd. You can imagine what happened when my friend's wife started dropping thousands of ping pong balls out of the helicopter a garbage bag full at a time and the downwash from the rotor hurled them to the ground. They bounced everywhere, from one end of the lot to the other, with a mass of humanity like a school of fish running after them. Now one of those balls was marked in a special way and represented a fifty percent discount at any store in the mall. It was good on any item in any store and conceivable was worth a lot of money. A lady found the ball and took it into the large department store that anchored this mall and bought a pair of panty hose for a couple of dollars and presented the ball for her discount. The manager was called and he explained that she could use the ball or give it to some relative, friend or whatever, and the ball could be used to get fifty percent off of any large ticket item in the store. She said nope. She was going to a party that nite and wanted her legs to look good so she needed a new pair of pantyhose and insisted in cashing in the ball on a three dollar purchase. Amazing.... Eh. |
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