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If that was a genuine video clip then I fail to see how anyone could find it funny. It certainly wasn't for the guy who lost his hands or his wife and child who witnessed it.
I really do hope that it was a set up, but have a nasty feeling that it wasn't.
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I really do hope that it was a set up, but have a nasty feeling that it wasn't.
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How anyone, particularly helicopter pilots, can think that video is funny is beyond my comprehension.
They'd probably have found a video of the father who lifted his small child up to ensure she didn't run towards the tail-rotor, and lifted her straight into the rotating main rotor with immediately fatal conseqences, absolutely hilarious. No doubt if that had been videoed, it would have found its way onto the net somewhere for its amusement value to some.
They'd probably have found a video of the father who lifted his small child up to ensure she didn't run towards the tail-rotor, and lifted her straight into the rotating main rotor with immediately fatal conseqences, absolutely hilarious. No doubt if that had been videoed, it would have found its way onto the net somewhere for its amusement value to some.
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Lighten up guys! 
It is clearly a set up, clearly a "joke", however much poor taste it might exhibit. If it was a guy being run over by a tank or falling in a giant liquidizer (ok, my imagination is running away now...) then you'd all see it for the joke it is - it's nothing you can't see late night on Channel 4 (UK) or on cable / satellite. It's an advert aimed at t'internet because they wouldn't get away with it on the telly, same as those sex olympics ones (great, aren't they?).
I'll take your advice on matters relating to flying helicopters, as I'm a newbie, and I don't think much of the ad either, but for Christ's sake don't tell us what we can or can't find funny!
It is clearly a set up, clearly a "joke", however much poor taste it might exhibit. If it was a guy being run over by a tank or falling in a giant liquidizer (ok, my imagination is running away now...) then you'd all see it for the joke it is - it's nothing you can't see late night on Channel 4 (UK) or on cable / satellite. It's an advert aimed at t'internet because they wouldn't get away with it on the telly, same as those sex olympics ones (great, aren't they?).
I'll take your advice on matters relating to flying helicopters, as I'm a newbie, and I don't think much of the ad either, but for Christ's sake don't tell us what we can or can't find funny!
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Nobody's telling you or anyone else what you can and can't find funny, simply expressing opinions - just like you - which people are free to accept or reject as they wish.
Check out this thread, and read it to the end. Some people might find it funny. Link
Check out this thread, and read it to the end. Some people might find it funny. Link
Heliport: wow , that's exactly what I was thinking when I saw the little girl in the helicopter thanks god it wasn't that video...
Anyway I'd show the video to the people working near helicopters, even real videos if I find one.
There are some
guys out there and they are thinking they know everything about be around helicopters...
Anyway I'd show the video to the people working near helicopters, even real videos if I find one.
There are some
guys out there and they are thinking they know everything about be around helicopters...
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Well don't worry, I wont chastise anyone who did not find the strange ADVERT funny, each to their own!
Some people don't find Monty Python funny, and rebuke anyone who does.. Oh well!
Some people don't find Monty Python funny, and rebuke anyone who does.. Oh well!
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Extremely unfunny, intended as a "joke" or not.
What next? A parody of the true tragedy of the lady on her first parachute jump who landed on a rotating helicopter at Thruxton?
The RAF Chinook crewman decapitated in the Falkland Islands?
The US Navy Seahawk that decapitated a sailor on board ship?
I think not. Some of us have seen the aftermath, it's not funny at all.
Pure bad taste.
What next? A parody of the true tragedy of the lady on her first parachute jump who landed on a rotating helicopter at Thruxton?
The RAF Chinook crewman decapitated in the Falkland Islands?
The US Navy Seahawk that decapitated a sailor on board ship?
I think not. Some of us have seen the aftermath, it's not funny at all.
Pure bad taste.
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A parody of the true tragedy of the lady on her first parachute jump who landed on a rotating helicopter at Thruxton?
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Some of you lot are sick puppies indeed. I'm glad the thread pointed out how distasteful the video is - I didn't want to open it at work and was going to view it at home. Now I know that I don't want to bother so thanks to those with some taste.
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Had I known it was an advert before I watched it and that something horrible was about to happen I think I would have been less bothered but frankly I found it nasty! I'm not too bothered about such stuff usually and enjoy a laugh, and looking back the hand looks very fake (maybe the home video style and closeness to home made it worse).
Perhaps it is a good reminder though. Just a shame it's actually designed (can't see it working myself) to sell trousers or whatever... I think whoever made it should put their energies into something less grim. The accuracy compared to genuine videos of similar events (Robinson safety Course) is worrying...
I didn't like it!
PS thinking about it further is it a genuine advert or just a bogus one for the sake of the skit?
Perhaps it is a good reminder though. Just a shame it's actually designed (can't see it working myself) to sell trousers or whatever... I think whoever made it should put their energies into something less grim. The accuracy compared to genuine videos of similar events (Robinson safety Course) is worrying...
I didn't like it!
PS thinking about it further is it a genuine advert or just a bogus one for the sake of the skit?
I think i must be getting old.
I like the satirical humour type things usually, however I found this thing quite disturbing.
I also thought of the young girl incident, and the parachute incident (but at Headcorn) whilst watching this.
I wonder if the guy flying it knows that the footage was used to make this !
Joe public will probably find it funny, but as a professional pilot this made me feel quite ill.
Soapbox mode off now, each to their own I suppose.
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I like the satirical humour type things usually, however I found this thing quite disturbing.
I also thought of the young girl incident, and the parachute incident (but at Headcorn) whilst watching this.
I wonder if the guy flying it knows that the footage was used to make this !
Joe public will probably find it funny, but as a professional pilot this made me feel quite ill.
Soapbox mode off now, each to their own I suppose.
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Check out this thread, and read it to the end. Some people might find it funny. Link
For those who haven't checked, the link refers to a discussion about the recent accident to Australian helicopter pilot Lester Chambers who received serious head injuries from the blade of a '300. When the last post was made, on 21st October, he remained in a serious condition.
You will note, Heliport, my post on that thread:
Best wishes, Lester and family, for a speedy recovery.
I have worked in the emergency services for the last nineteen years, and in common with many on this forum have seen sights that have sickened me to my stomach, and at which I am professionally unable to react at the time. A broad-mindedness develops in such circumstances, and emergency and hospital staff do develop a sick sense of humour in order to deal with such stress. It is something we tend to keep amongst ourselves, and helps in some circumstances, but doesn't mean we just stand and laugh at others' misfortunes. Only three days ago a PA38 crashed in a residential street only half a mile from my house - both men on board were killed. You will be glad to know I don't find that funny, either.
The point of my post was to apply a sense of perspective, as regards to what is very, very clearly a set up, a scam, an advert! As i said before, I don't particularly like it, but I'm not going to suggest that other mustn't either.
You did, as far as I'm concerned:
How anyone, particularly helicopter pilots, can think that video is funny is beyond my comprehension.
I notice you describe yourself as Super Moderator. I don't think so. Do you?
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DB,
I think you've missed the irony in Heliports post.
I think you've missed the irony in Heliports post.
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DB,
Please, maybe consider that your 19 years in the emergency services have somehow de-sensitised you and things that you would have found revolting and horrific 20 years ago, no longer affect you in the same way.
However, as I still haven't (and won't now out of principle) watch the video - what do I know!
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Please, maybe consider that your 19 years in the emergency services have somehow de-sensitised you and things that you would have found revolting and horrific 20 years ago, no longer affect you in the same way.
However, as I still haven't (and won't now out of principle) watch the video - what do I know!
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A parody of the true tragedy of the lady on her first parachute jump who landed on a rotating helicopter at Thruxton?
Ha ha, excellent... do you have a video of that? 
There was no video of the Thruxton tragedy, but I do have a clear memory of reading the accounts of people who watched in horror as she floated towards the hovering helicopter but could do nothing to prevent the accident, of reading (with accompanying photographs) how what remained of the poor girl's body was scattered in small pieces over the airfield, of reading the pathologist's report of her horrific injuries and, most vividly of all, of advising her distraught parents as gently as possible against devoting their lives and modest savings to bringing a legal action when, even if negligence was proved, the damages recoverable for the loss of a non-dependent relative are fixed by Parliament at a very small sum - which was already being offered (without formal admission of liability) by the parachuting school's insurance company.
I didn't find any of it even remotely funny, but maybe that's just me.
I also remember being involved in the the legal aftermath of the Headcorn accident mentioned, a mid-air collision between a freefall skydiver and the jump aircraft returning to the airfield. That case had an additional dimension for me - the young woman who was killed was a barrister who represented young barristers' interests when I served as a member of the Bar Council and I knew her, although not well. I didn't find anything amusing about that accident either but, again, we're all different.
DBChopper
Identifying irony clearly isn't your strong point.
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A parody of the true tragedy of the lady on her first parachute jump who landed on a rotating helicopter at Thruxton?
Ha ha, excellent... do you have a video of that?
There was no video of the Thruxton tragedy, but I do have a clear memory of reading the accounts of people who watched in horror as she floated towards the hovering helicopter but could do nothing to prevent the accident, of reading (with accompanying photographs) how what remained of the poor girl's body was scattered in small pieces over the airfield, of reading the pathologist's report of her horrific injuries and, most vividly of all, of advising her distraught parents as gently as possible against devoting their lives and modest savings to bringing a legal action when, even if negligence was proved, the damages recoverable for the loss of a non-dependent relative are fixed by Parliament at a very small sum - which was already being offered (without formal admission of liability) by the parachuting school's insurance company.
I didn't find any of it even remotely funny, but maybe that's just me.
I also remember being involved in the the legal aftermath of the Headcorn accident mentioned, a mid-air collision between a freefall skydiver and the jump aircraft returning to the airfield. That case had an additional dimension for me - the young woman who was killed was a barrister who represented young barristers' interests when I served as a member of the Bar Council and I knew her, although not well. I didn't find anything amusing about that accident either but, again, we're all different.
DBChopper
Identifying irony clearly isn't your strong point.