Oh give me a break..
A bottle rocket is a risk to a helicopter?
I dont buy it. Its like shooting a bear with a bb gun.
I'm not sure a bottle rocket would be able to fly through the turbulence beneath the helicopter, much less do any damage if it did.
LOL! Sounds like something from a show called "Jackass Stunts Gone Terribly Wrong".
My buddy used to joke about shooting a grizzly bear at the end of the summer feeding season (when they're nice and fat) with a high velocity, highly frangible varmint round, and blowing a popcorn bowl sized wad of fat out of his belly.
One thing's for sure after you did that. He'd make up the lost calories with from the shooter's bone marrow.
"I dont buy it. Its like shooting a bear with a bb gun."
Actually the principle is called the "Golden BB," the idea that no matter how armored and invicible you think your aircraft is, that one absolutely lucky shot will find your weak point and bring you down.
If the bottle rocket went in the engine intake and exploded that certainly could cause it to stall.