Pot-Shots at NOLA Rescue 'Copters: Nope
I'm not sure whether I blogged about this or not, but I never did believe the stories about people taking shots at helicopters in New Orleans. Atrios posts this, strongly suggesting that the stories were fake.
I figured that the stories, if based in fact at all, originated when someone saw a helicopter in the air and heard a gunshot.
Anyway, it's crazy the bizarre fictions that situation produced.
Laser sharks! Attack squid!
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Someblogwhere in the last couple of days, I can't remember where, someone said "it was probably someone shooting into the air to attract the attention of a rescue helicopter."
ReplyDeleteThis explanation hit me hard as being ten times as plausible as someone shooting *at* a helicopter, and since rescue efforts were aborted due to fear of getting shot at, it's about one hundred times as tragic.