[lexington minuteman 1775]

Two bits it was a black chopper. Man, i am going out for a new tinfoil hat now.BWHAHAHAHAHA!

[Hugin]

Chwaszczewski told police the shooting was "a natural reaction," after having watched the events of Sept. 11.

Yeah, perfectly normal to assume low flying helicopters are terrorsts and shoot at them. I wonder what he thought would happen if he had brought it down on someone's house?

It also makes me wonder how many adult beverages the guy had consumed.

[AF68]

There's got to be a Pollock joke in there someplace.

[Bobby777]

Chwaszczewski

wow ... how does one pronounce that? (I can guess about 80% of it ... hehe)

[Husker24]

Chwaszczewski..............WOW! im not even going to try and pronounce that one!

[Semper911]

It's a GD good thing it wasn't a military helo. They would have flattened him.

[Amerigomag]

During basic rotary wing training instructors tell you time and time again "resist the urge to utilize this aircraft to it's full potential .... DONT BE STUPID ENOUGH TO TRY TO LAND IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD".

Regardless of this sound advice A full 50% of new, civilian, rotary wing pilots end up in minor to major hot water because they won't listen.

[Jhoffa_]

What a moron..

Oh yeah, sure.. Osama has waved off of targets like skyscrapers and now prefers to attack garages and gazebos in residential neighborhoods.

Someone get the hook! Quick!

[VaBthang4]

Hey I feel for the guy.

About a month after the 9/11 attacks I was suddenly disturbed by two Low Observable Bell Helicopters zipping over my house 100 feet above the deck.

Both black and moving quick enough that I was unable to read their markings.

We have a Nuclear reactor about ten minutes flight time from my house and we have a grip of Al Fuqra wanna-be Terrorist Brothers about ten minutes flight time in the opposite direction.

I immediately called my friend who is one of the heads of security at the reactor. He urged me to immediately phone both the FAA/FBI....

...come to find out, I have a low altitude military flight path that goes right over my rural house. It had been pretty much unused but when 9/11 occured it was reactivated.

Since then I have had everything from C-130 transports to F-15 fighters zipping overhead.

~grin~

[Dave S]

"Maybe I overreacted, but I did feel this was terrorism at its utmost,"

Ya think! What an idiot. He was lucky it wasnt DEA going in after some of his in-bred neighbors on a drug post or he would be a dead idiot and anti-fed contingent here would be blaming the DEA for killing this poor defenseless man in his own yard.

[Cap'n Crunch]

This guy's gotta be a cop, only cops do stuff like that.

No, wait a minute, he got charged, cops don't get charged.

Never mind.

[Southack]

I see that a San Francisco paper ran with this local Virginia story.

Gee, no agenda there!

Anti-gunners can't wait to use stories like this against us...

[Sparticle]

Chwaszczewski

pronounced "SEAN PENN"

[Double Tap]

Chwaszczewski to his wife, "Here, hold ma beer, now watch this!"

[Clive]

Too bad he can't be charged with crappy fire discipline.

And for missing.

Anyone who can't hit a target that big and that low is a damned menace.

[chance33_98]

Pic of the man from artcile here