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#1 Jul 28 2007 at 3:27 AM Rating: Good

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I see Helicopters now suffer from traffic problems

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Deaths in US TV helicopter crash

Two news helicopters fall after colliding in midair while covering a police pursuit in central Phoenix

Four people have died after two helicopters, owned by rival US television channels, collided in mid-air while covering a car chase.

Both helicopters went down in Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix, Arizona, and caught fire as they were covering the police pursuit of a pick-up truck.

Everyone on board the two craft was killed. No-one on the ground was hurt.

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#2 Jul 28 2007 at 3:31 AM Rating: Decent

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Oddly enough no helicopter was sent on the scene to cover it.

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#3 Jul 28 2007 at 5:18 AM Rating: Good

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Only thing better would be if they crashed down on top of the police chase.

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#4 Jul 28 2007 at 5:35 AM Rating: Default

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Yeah and hit the dude that cause the whole thing. Moron hijacked a second car to later barracade himself in a house. Damn helicopters should have hit there.
To bad i can put a picture of a bullseye right now cause i would.

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#5 Jul 28 2007 at 11:05 AM Rating: Decent

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Buttercuup wrote:

Yeah and hit the dude that cause the whole thing. Moron hijacked a second car to later barracade himself in a house. Damn helicopters should have hit there.
To bad i can put a picture of a bullseye right now cause i would.

So the helicopter crash is the fault of the person that was being pursued? Your an moran.

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#6 Jul 28 2007 at 11:51 AM Rating: Decent

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MentalFrog wrote:

Buttercuup wrote:

Yeah and hit the dude that cause the whole thing. Moron hijacked a second car to later barracade himself in a house. Damn helicopters should have hit there.
To bad i can put a picture of a bullseye right now cause i would.

So the helicopter crash is the fault of the person that was being pursued? Your an moran.

that's gbajian logic at its finest!

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#7 Jul 28 2007 at 11:18 PM Rating: Good

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There supposedly is a Youtube video from inside one of the helicopters as the blades go through the cockpit. I can't find it, but it has the sounds the pilot or cameraman is making after he is whacked by the rotor blade.

Hey, two job openings in Phoenix that I can apply for! Wo0t!

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#8 Jul 28 2007 at 11:21 PM Rating: Good

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The legal term they are tossing around to add to the charges being piled onto the car chasee is "proximate cause," wherein the accident wouldn't have occured had the guy not tried to escape in his car, thus precipitating the car chase and the ensuing helicopter flights.

Don't know if it'll stand up in court though...

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#9 Jul 28 2007 at 11:31 PM Rating: Excellent

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Car chase or no, if they pin that crash on the guy running away I'll be pissed. Those newsies were violating many FAA regs being that close together, and Pheonix news anchors are scum anyways.

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#10 Jul 28 2007 at 11:56 PM Rating: Good

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ToUtem wrote:

The legal term they are tossing around to add to the charges being piled onto the car chasee is "proximate cause," wherein the accident wouldn't have occured had the guy not tried to escape in his car, thus precipitating the car chase and the ensuing helicopter flights.

Don't know if it'll stand up in court though...

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As far as I'm concerned, the two Heli's were Rubbernecking on behalf of voyeuristic TV viewers.

If rubbernecking is a crime, the jails are going to get full pretty quick! (Even white folks too!)

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#11 Jul 29 2007 at 9:29 AM Rating: Good

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Totem wrote:

The legal term they are tossing around to add to the charges being piled onto the car chasee is "proximate cause," wherein the accident wouldn't have occured had the guy not tried to escape in his car, thus precipitating the car chase and the ensuing helicopter flights.

Don't know if it'll stand up in court though...

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Most places have laws that state if someone dies while you are commiting a felony, because you are commiting the felony, even if you had nothing to with the death directly, you are guilty of their death. A recent example would be a police officer that got into car accident and died while responding to a robbery (the robber fled, there was a car chase and he shot and wounded another officer before they took him down).

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#12 Jul 29 2007 at 9:55 AM Rating: Good

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The Glorious GitSlayer wrote:

Most places have laws that state if someone dies while you are commiting a felony, because you are commiting the felony, even if you had nothing to with the death directly, you are guilty of their death. A recent example would be a police officer that got into car accident and died while responding to a robbery (the robber fled, there was a car chase and he shot and wounded another officer before they took him down).

And you don't notice a teensy difference between a cop trying to help fight crime, and commercial TV companies trying to film crime for profit? Smiley: oyvey

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#13 Jul 29 2007 at 2:39 PM Rating: Good

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Nobby wrote:

The Glorious GitSlayer wrote:

Most places have laws that state if someone dies while you are commiting a felony, because you are commiting the felony, even if you had nothing to with the death directly, you are guilty of their death. A recent example would be a police officer that got into car accident and died while responding to a robbery (the robber fled, there was a car chase and he shot and wounded another officer before they took him down).

And you don't notice a teensy difference between a cop trying to help fight crime, and commercial TV companies trying to film crime for profit? Smiley: oyvey

Meh, has nothing to with the police at all. The guy could be fleeing from the po po in one of those infamous L.A. police chases we use to have, people could be lining the roadway to watch them go by (something that happened all the time) and one of the rubbernecking bystandards gets hit by some random guy in a car and he could be blamed.

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