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Dad Takes Son To First Day Of School In A Helicopter
Aero News Network ^ | Thu, 27 Aug '09 | Staff

Posted on 08/27/2009 9:35:29 AM PDT by PilotDave

Unfortunately, He Forgot To Tell The School School officials at East Ridge High in Clermont, Florida, were less than thrilled that Bart Sutherin rented a helicopter to take his son to his first day of classes Monday.

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TOPICS: Education; Humor; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aerospace; aviation; helicopter; school
Amusing...
1 posted on 08/27/2009 9:35:30 AM PDT by PilotDave
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To: PilotDave

Helicopter parent!


2 posted on 08/27/2009 9:36:49 AM PDT by Pessimist (u)
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To: PilotDave

Sounds like right out of a Richie Rich comic book.


3 posted on 08/27/2009 9:37:53 AM PDT by NavyCanDo (Are you better off than you were 4 Tillion dollars ago?)
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To: PilotDave

I thought it was a bit over the top to call the FAA!


4 posted on 08/27/2009 9:38:39 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

More of a rent-a-cop’s response ... I cant figure out anything to arrest or ticket you for so I’m going to see if there is someone else who can teach you a lesson.


5 posted on 08/27/2009 9:44:45 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: PilotDave

A skydive to school would have been more impressive.


6 posted on 08/27/2009 9:46:13 AM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: PilotDave

Interesting family, if you have the bucks you can spend them how you want.


7 posted on 08/27/2009 9:48:02 AM PDT by dog breath
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To: PilotDave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ7cTI623Vg


8 posted on 08/27/2009 9:54:16 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: taxcontrol; Tijeras_Slim; FireTrack; Pukin Dog; citabria; B Knotts; kilowhskey; cyphergirl; ...

Aviation ping


9 posted on 08/27/2009 9:56:36 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

cool. marking.


10 posted on 08/27/2009 10:02:37 AM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: PilotDave

Principle David E. Cunningham sounds like someone with good common sense and a sense of humor. Or not.

How frustrating it must be for him that the FAA says nothing was illegal about this flight.


11 posted on 08/27/2009 10:06:50 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: PilotDave

BTTT


12 posted on 08/27/2009 10:06:53 AM PDT by hattend (Sarah Palin's mob minion - Mob Name: Hatman the Hitman)
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


13 posted on 08/27/2009 10:19:03 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: PilotDave

A helicopter!?!?!

This is clearly child abuse. Forget about the FAA. Call the local cops!!!


14 posted on 08/27/2009 10:26:35 AM PDT by Habibi
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To: PilotDave

Good grief, one can only imagine what the kid will want/expect for senior prom/graduation.


15 posted on 08/27/2009 11:23:36 AM PDT by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: glock rocks

See what you started...


16 posted on 08/27/2009 3:23:22 PM PDT by tubebender (My tag line was last seen crossing the border into Oregon on highway 395 with 2 mangy dogs...)
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To: tubebender

I took my daughter to daycare in a C4.


17 posted on 08/27/2009 4:46:56 PM PDT by glock rocks (health care, gun safety and climate change are strawmen. It's all about CONTROL.)
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To: PilotDave

Amusing........until Bart gets stuffed in a trash can for being an assclown by some seniors not amused by his stunt


18 posted on 08/27/2009 4:57:16 PM PDT by Popman
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To: glock rocks
OH YEAH? Well I picked my Grand Kids up a F250 6,500 gvw with 12X16.5s and a CB radio!
19 posted on 08/27/2009 5:03:09 PM PDT by tubebender (Well)
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To: tubebender

I had a cell phone and a CB. Neener.


20 posted on 08/27/2009 5:14:39 PM PDT by glock rocks (health care, gun safety and climate change are strawmen. It's all about CONTROL.)
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To: Popman

I was thinking the same thing. Seniors do not like to be upstaged by lowly Freshmen.


21 posted on 08/27/2009 5:34:30 PM PDT by Ronin (Nemo me impune lacesset)
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To: glock rocks
and I picked my kids up in a brand new 1965 GTO 389 with tri-power 4.33 gears and a Reverb
22 posted on 08/27/2009 5:39:19 PM PDT by tubebender (Well)
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To: tubebender

Oh fine. Pull the age card.


23 posted on 08/27/2009 5:50:56 PM PDT by glock rocks (health care, gun safety and climate change are strawmen. It's all about CONTROL.)
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To: glock rocks

Did I tell you we lived across the street from the school?


24 posted on 08/27/2009 6:10:26 PM PDT by tubebender (Well)
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To: tubebender

I’d wager you didn’t build a VW with a Porsche engine. Just sayin. I’ll look for a picture.


25 posted on 08/27/2009 6:15:59 PM PDT by glock rocks (health care, gun safety and climate change are strawmen. It's all about CONTROL.)
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To: glock rocks
No but I helped my FRiend build 2 of them, 1 sand rail and 1 Baja Bug and he didn't take his kids to school in either one!
26 posted on 08/27/2009 6:36:45 PM PDT by tubebender (Well)
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To: KeyLargo

would you please, put me on your Aviation ping list. thanks.


27 posted on 08/27/2009 6:50:35 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Zer0 to the voter: "Welcome to 'MY' DeathCARE ® Plan"...Sucker! ...now just die. :^)
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To: tubebender; SouthTexas

What? No picture?


28 posted on 08/27/2009 7:02:56 PM PDT by glock rocks (health care, gun safety and climate change are strawmen. It's all about CONTROL.)
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To: glock rocks

You know I haven’t been able to post pictures since I fell out of the back of my pickup yesterday...


29 posted on 08/27/2009 7:41:59 PM PDT by tubebender (Well)
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To: glock rocks; tubebender

Guess mine were mistreated, I made them walk.


30 posted on 08/27/2009 8:24:49 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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To: tubebender
OH YEAH? Well I picked my Grand Kids up a F250 6,500 gvw with 12X16.5s and a CB radio!

And a gun rack and an NRA sticker? No Obama bumber sticker though, I assume.

31 posted on 08/27/2009 8:30:48 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle; SouthTexas; glock rocks

It did have a gun rack, a NRA sticker, dual exhaust and the fuel tank was behind the seat with 2 saddle tanks. It was a 76 and the first year for lap belts which I hated and used a razor blade to remove it them.

Did I tell you it had a CB radio...


32 posted on 08/27/2009 8:38:46 PM PDT by tubebender (Well)
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To: tubebender

Good job T. Bender! you have lost another great tag line to the crazies...


33 posted on 08/27/2009 8:41:20 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: tubebender

No Stars and Bars sticker?


34 posted on 08/27/2009 8:52:04 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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To: SouthTexas

Don’t need one with a gun rack in the back even if it’s empty because the smart one know I must be packing something and the dumb one soon find out...


35 posted on 08/27/2009 9:09:01 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: tubebender

It’s still a fairly good warning system. ;)


36 posted on 08/27/2009 9:10:58 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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To: SouthTexas

Dale Sr sticker does the same thing even if I wasn’t a fan. How much rain are you getting?


37 posted on 08/27/2009 9:15:03 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: tubebender
It did have a gun rack, a NRA sticker, dual exhaust and the fuel tank was behind the seat with 2 saddle tanks. It was a 76 and the first year for lap belts which I hated and used a razor blade to remove it them.

LOL

38 posted on 08/27/2009 9:17:17 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: tubebender

We got about 14 drops today!

That’s after someone tried to burn down half the county this morning. Got pretty smoky for a while.


39 posted on 08/27/2009 9:17:39 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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To: SouthTexas

Didn’t you have fires last year also? I gotta run but I’ll check back later. Toodle Doo


40 posted on 08/27/2009 9:21:07 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: PilotDave

“For a while I didn’t have a car...I had a helicopter...no place to park it, so
I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running...”

Steven Wright


41 posted on 08/27/2009 9:22:35 PM PDT by decal (The Key To Flexibility is Indecision)
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To: tubebender

Every year. The ones that really affect us are the burns down on the Yucatan.


42 posted on 08/28/2009 6:17:50 AM PDT by SouthTexas
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