Originally Posted by
thomas michael
hi john sabourn #3
education or the lack of it was the subject yesterday, this morning my son phoned me and began to tell me the tale of some young lads from where i grew up in bootle merseyside, it seems the police helicopter was landed in the derby park in bootle, and it seems the pilot and co-pilot left the helicopter to check on something and whilst they where away from the helicopter some young lads got into it and started to fly it in the park, he told me to go and watch it on youtube as a passerby had filmed it and put it on youtube, i asked my son how was that even possible, without any tuition or training, and he said, that these lads spend hours indeed days at a time playing games with remote controls on their computers and they would have worked out how to handle it in minuets, well i watched the clip, and you can actually see whoever is flying it that they are firstly in control of it and in minuets are flying it, all in a park strewn with trees, the mind boggles,
there is at the moment no official media footage, most likely because the police do not want anybody to know about it, but go to youtube check lads flying police helicopter in bootle merseyside,But the lads have been arrested and charged with believe it or not, no insurance,
tom