I Thought The Black Helicopters Were After Me

There was a time when the sound of chopper was the best thing in the world for me to hear....! That whoppa=whoppa=whoppa meant safety, security & a return form the adrenaline high that was making us unable to sleep....Viet nam war....!

Hey, looks like a white helicopter to me. That would be the archetypical good guys, right?

Similar(kind of) story about 12 or13 years ago. My children were pre kindergarten age.(boy do I miss those days) in the early fall I returned home from somewhere work I think(not sure)to our rural area home to find my two daughters and their mother huddled in the middle of our kitchen floor. Daughters crying profusely their mother visibly shaken trying to calm our children she quickly threw me my weapon she had retrieved from the gun cabinet pointed me to our back yard and started in with the story it seems shortly before I returned the children were in their sandbox their mother supervising in the shade when all of a sudden an actual black helicopter had all but landed in our back yard did a complete circle at near ground level rose up and flew away our entire yard was encircled by woods upon further examination I found my calf had broke loose and was wandering around in the woods along with the ducks and chickens. After calming the kids and rounding up the livestock I got on the phone to the state police gave them crap for having little interest and called who ever they said to call and gave them crap as well all to no avail. To this day I don't know what was going on although I later came to suspect it was some sort of law enforcement agency searching for the marijuana plants that I later discovered deep in the woods while hunting. but in the end I'm really don't know what was going on.

I know how unsettling that can be. Happens here once in a while. Good job with the picture too.

American M....run on sentences. May be the result of some black-ops chemical tests in your local water supply. ;-)

B.W. could possibly be.? (hmm) but really is that the best you've got I mean the most intelligent comment you could make I mean like did you even read (because you didn't comment on) C.Y.'s article???

C.Y. sorry that's why I hate to write long comments wasn't trying to steal your article. But it brought back a memory thanks.

I was born in 1950, and we lived near a small airport, and close enough to Ft. Lewis and McChord to see planes of all kinds almost every day. We got used to them, and could tell what it was just by the sound it made. My dad was an aviation machinists mate in the Navy in WW II and he was good at identifying them too, which is no surprise. Now we live near Bremerton with Navy ships in and out of the shipyard, SeaTac not too far away, and so we hear Coast Guard choppers when ships are underway as well as 'life flight' copters too. All that said, when 9/11 happened and everything was grounded, it was so eerie to NOT hear any aircraft of any kind for days.

Donald: One of those chopper pilots might have been our son's father-in-law, Doug Brown.

In downtown Chicago one day we watched one of those choppers putting a new anntena on the sears tower, it was awesome to watch.

were I am at, I don't really get the noise from aircraft over head.

We get all kinds of air traffic being in close proximity to the Dover Air Force base. Jets ,helicopters, large , and jumbo size planes . Super low fly overs sometimes they blow and shake all the tree tops. A couple times we could actually feel the down draft and it seemed like you could hit the planes with a rock. (they probably weren't that close but that's what it seemed like) On an average day there are between 300 and 400 planes in the sky over the U.S.A. alone well before 8am.

Here in Hamilton, Ontario, we really do have a black copter that hovers over our skies. However, I believe it's just for traffic. Must have scared you for a second or two. Great pix.

Scott, I'm a little worried about you....

Nice story, but for some reason the pictures dont show up on my computer. been having a lot of problems with that lately... only boxes with an X... thanks for sharing

I know how those low flying helicopters can strike you with a feeling of Voldemort-like evil. Dick Cheney lives one neighborhood over and sometimes I can just feel in my bones that he must be in one of those choppers passing overhead.