was just getting grumpy about the police helicopter hovering overhead for ages..

[edam]

when they broadcast an announcement about a dangerous escaped criminal! Yikes! With a name and description.

Oooh blimey Edam! where abouts are you?

NW Herts, serendippity - people were stopping their cars and peering out of the windows to hear what was going on! (This is sleepy suburbia, the most exciting thing in the local paper is usually someone getting cross over the council's failure to repair potholes.)

Oooh, I do love a helicpter hovering overhead....notice how it only ever happens in summer. Do the pilots hibernate in winter or something?

It's a sign that good weather is here.

But seriously, BOLT YOUR DOOR

When they said 'walks with a pronounced limp' I did wonder quite how they managed to lose him, tbh.

dh is here now so if there's any tangling with desperate criminals to be done, I shall delegate!

bloody hell.

Serious stuff.

Hope you have no tangling.

lol edam. we had one the other week on the walk home from school about a 'considered dangerous escaped mental health patient' and were warned not to approach. i almost ran all the way home.

ooh is it like chopper coppers? do they have thermal imaging things

Actually the more I think about that edam, the more annoyed I'd be.

how do you explain to a small child not to be scared by that kind of thing?

Peagreen, kids love helicopters hovering over head.

Chinooks are different though...when they say they are fast and low, they mean htey are fast and low. Tehy used to fly over where I lived, and practically land in peoples back gardens.

We've had a police helicopter overhead all afternoon (Devon) wonder if the man with the limp is from here....

Oooh I love Chinooks, they are cool.
Buzzy copper choppers get tedious.
The Air Ambulance is based over the road from us. I always feel sad when they take off.

In our force they only get the helicopter out for serious stuff as it costs £350 just to get it in the air

We-ll, my neighbour thinks she heard different - she reckons it's actually a missing person. As in, not a criminal. (It's bloody hard to hear the announcements over the noise of the chopper, they really need to work on that PA system.)

If they are looking that hard for him, must be a very vulnerable person. Hope they find him, either way.

chinooks are very cool but the one time I got a ride in one it gave me a hell of a migraine.

oh now that made me shiver -I think they got the helicopter out when my friend's severely autistic son did a runner (found him about 5 hours later).

Chinooks are not quite so cool, when they have a flight path over your house once a day.(They are going to Odiham)

I did not know my peace when the GWII
started they were all in Iraq.

Some of them fly so low, that my connecting doors rattle and the glasses in the glasses cupboard shake rattle and roll.

Edam, I live not too far from you iirc and we regularly get helicopters hovering overhead - and police cars screaming past. No idea where they are going as it's open countryside beyond us! Sometimes I reckon the helicopter crew just fancy a fly around...

LGJ, we are under a flight path too, for RAF planes, and have chinooks so low you can lamost see thepilto.

Ah yes, one of them had spinach for lunch last week.

Ah yes, one of them had spinach for lunch last week.

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I am used to military plane noise. Living on RAF camps does that to you.

Oh dear, I think I may have misunderstood. Do you mean the broadcast was from the helicopter itself?

Cos that's what I meant by scaring small children...

I've just come back to MN since cooking tea and now rather think you mean broadcast from radio / tv.

Not a loud tannoy announcement from the helicopted declaring "Warning. Your neighbourhood is in danger. Please do not panic."

No, it was a loudhailer announcment from the helicopter. Very strange. Never had one ever before, despite having choppers all the ruddy time when I lived in South London.