Mexican Military Helicopter Spotted Over Texas (Again)

KRGV ^ | 3/30/2010 | Will Ripley

[SwinneySwitch]

ZAPATA - Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr. says a Mexican Military Helicopter was seen crossing into U.S. airspace around 3:30 Sunday afternoon.

A number of witnesses including a justice of the peace reported the helicopter as it hovered over Zapata County.

The witnesses say the helicopter was flying pretty low.

This is the second time this month a Mexican Military helicopter has crossed into South Texas. The first was a over Falcon Heights, about 14 miles from Roma.

Witnesses there say the chopper hovered over a home that used to belong to a drug dealer before flying back to Mexico.

U.S. officials are now trying to determine why the helicopter entered our airspace.

[SwinneySwitch]

"U.S. officials are now trying to determine why the helicopter entered our airspace."

[Minutemen]

I an trying to determine why our Air Force didn’t shoot it down.

[mbarker12474]

Looking for free health care.

[Londo Molari]

Some Texan ought to shoot it down and hang it over the mantle.

[AuntB]

Helicopters!!! Guess I’d better get out the tin foil to cover my head....of course that won’t do me much good when some Mexican cartel thug decides to lop it off!

[Terry Mross]

Would it be legal and moral for the sheriff to shoot the damned thing down?

[Mark was here]

I could understand being in hot pursuit, but they should have radioed ahead.

[phrogphlyer]

We sent Stingers to the mujaheddin in Afghanistan in the ‘80s. Why can’t we do that now in South Texas?

[Diogenesis]

‘Bush’s fault’, said the White House Press Office.

[DonaldC]

“I an trying to determine why our Air Force didn’t shoot it down.”

Or at least forced to land, chopped up and shipped back in small boxes.

[arealconservativeforachange]

I’d shoot the foreign aircraft down. It’d be interesting to see who our gov’t sides with.

[deport]

Witnesses there say the chopper hovered over a home that used to belong to a drug dealer before flying back to Mexico.

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Who owns the home now?

[70th Division]

So how would those chopper blades look on the front of his caddy?

[darkside321]

I an trying to determine why our Air Force didn’t shoot it down.

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Sorry but since when does the Air force shoots down foreign planes and helicopters “only” because they cross their air space? As long you are not at war with this country it´s pretty normal just to “intercept” them and then escort them out of the Air space.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Is it legal to shoot at or shoot down a aircraft that is not authorized to be in this country by Joe Sixpack?

[I-ambush]

Pregnant woman on board, about to give birth.

[Tex-Con-Man]

My guess is one of their drug dealers tried to flee the country without the proper government payoffs, so they were trying to “extradite” him back.

[arealconservativeforachange]

Bush had 8 years to build a fence.
I’ll leave it at that.

[Londo Molari]

Some Texan ought to shoot it down and hang it over the mantle.

[Jack Hydrazine]

You could launch a rocket at it carrying a wire cable so the cable will tangle in the main or tail rotors.