(10-07-2024, 07:08 PM)WingerDinger Wrote: https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/18...30H5A&s=19

NEW: Helicopter destroys Hurricane Helene recovery supplies in Burnsville, North Carolina at a distribution site.

Locals say two black SUVs did a "slow roll" 45 minutes before the helicopter showed up.

"This evening at approximately 7:18 in Burnsville, NC an unmarked helicopter flew in and attempted to destroy the distribution area that was set up by locals for locals while I was conducting a K9 Security Round," megsbacn, a veteran volunteer said on TT.

"THIS WAS NOT ONE OF OUR HELOS! This was about 45 minutes after 2 unmarked black SUVS and a side-by-side did a slow roll at the entrance of our parking lot and left."

"[The helicopter] was UNMARKED and it is illegal to fly unmarked helicopters. But we know SF can and does and we know some private contractors do (not sure of the legalities on that though)..."

"So who were they? Why were they here? Why were they masked up? I've done plenty of helo ops with Coast Guard helos and I know a practiced rotor wash when I see it and our pilots never masked up this way."

I find it hilarious that the 'fact checker' thinks knowing the make and model of a helicopter means it's not unmarked. Idiots. 

It is a curious thing that this happened. The government in it's many levels don't want organizations it can't control or manhandle to be in control of any relief efforts. It's already been an issue where a local sheriff in one area put a halt to volunteers distributing supplies from a municipal airport where pilots were delivering goods. He couldn't stop the people so he asserted jurisdiction over the airport and told the airport manager that anything delivered there had to be turned over to the sheriff's department for distribution.

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