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To: Badeye
Its time we ban news organizations from broadcasting police chases live in my opinion.

That seems like a drastic solution. Perhaps some collision avoidance technology could alert the pilots when they are too close together or on a collision course.

20 posted on 07/27/2007 1:28:17 PM PDT by HAL9000
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AP: A witness named Charles, who didn't want his last name used, said he heard a loud gunshot-like sound and heard a really loud bang and then two helicopters coming straight down. He said they burst into flames and they were 100 yards away from me.
22 posted on 07/27/2007 1:34:23 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: HAL9000

Its time we ban news organizations from broadcasting police chases live in my opinion.
That seems like a drastic solution. Perhaps some collision avoidance technology could alert the pilots when they are too close together or on a collision course.

I know, it does seem drastic. Will it seem ‘drastic’ if this happened again, only over a rush hour stopped interstate?

Its going to happen eventually, its a statistical certainty.


29 posted on 07/27/2007 1:49:32 PM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: HAL9000

Problem with collision avoidance stuff is that it’s really just proximity detectors and these guys get really close to each other doing this stuff, they’d just turn it off. As for it being drastic remember the cops tend to send up a helicopter too, what happens if instead of two reporter choppers smacking into each other it’s a reporter hitting the cops, killing the cops and letting the bad guys get away. There should be a no fly zone of 1 mile around any police chopper participation in a pursuit. Really the coverage of these chases live is sick anyway, it’s just blood lust there’s no actual news reporting, it was a bad hobby when it started with the whole OJ thing and it’s time for it to wind up on the ash heap of history.


33 posted on 07/27/2007 1:58:50 PM PDT by discostu (indecision may or may not be my biggest problem)
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