Man charged after landing helicopter at Dairy Queen to pick up ice cream cake

thepostmillennial ^ | 8/11/2021 | Angelo Isidorou

[JennysCool]

As the old saying goes: If you’ve got it, flaunt it.

[DesertRhino]

God forbid someone land a tiny helicopter anywhere besides a runway at an airport. They act like a CH-53 landed at the drive up window.

[Billthedrill]

What flavor of ice cream? Dang it, these reporters never ask the right questions.

[LegendHasIt]

I always though Steven Wright was the funniest man on earth.

[Viking2002]

I like DQ as much as the next person, but not that much. As an aside, we used to have a great German restaurant back home for decades, and JFK loved the bee-sting cake there so much, at least once he actually had an order phoned in and a helo flew the 120 miles to the local airport to pick it up for him. Hand to God, it was that good. And I have a photocopy of the recipe from their old cookbook.

[ThunderSleeps]

One evening, when my wife was pregnant with our first, she had a craving for DQ. The nearest one was some 15 minutes across town and it was 10 min to closing. I got her the chili dog and peanut buster parfait she was craving. Don't ask me how many traffic laws I violated that evening.

My point is, sometimes there can be a valid ice cream emergency. Pregnancy hormones are wicked.

[Dr. Sivana]

When I need a Dairy Queen soft serve vanilla with chocolate coating

Growing up, we all called the coating a chocolate bonnet (or cherry, later butterscotch too). Do hey not call it that where you are?

[Dr. Sivana]

Not worth it for a Dairy Queen Cake. Carvel? Yes.

[Bullish]

Uh, yeah... I’m pretty sure that’s like really stupid.

[ThunderSleeps]

I used to work landscaping around a restaurant situated along a highway. The backside of the property was one line of pine trees and a large open field. Turns out that open field was more than big enough for a helicopter. The state patrol landed there fairly often to go in for lunch. I actually learned the hand signals to help guide them in to landing or taking off. Not that they needed it, but they humored a 16 year old kid and made him feel important. ;-)

Only bad experience was when they landed shortly after we had replaced the mulch around the pine trees. It hadn't gotten rained on yet or packed down and a lot blew out...grrr Fun times - working in the sun all day, drinking beer all evening with friends. Beer just tastes better after a long hot day, especially under-aged beer. ;-)

[leaning conservative]

My kind of guy!

[Blue Highway]

Haven’t had Carvel since living in NJ decades ago. Miss the Flying Saucers in chocolate or vanilla.

Https://www.ediblelongisland.com/2019/09/06/the-story-behind-carvels-flying-saucers

[TChad]

The Free Republic aviation threads continue to amaze me. Someone posts a thread about a helicopter pilot who lands next to a fast food restaurant to pick up a snack, and a Freeper announces that he routinely did the same thing with his Army helicopter in the 1980s.

Only on FR.

[Rebelbase]

“”Officers determined the pilot, a 34-year-old man from Leroy, was licensed to drive the helicopter,”

I bet he has a license to fly a car too.

[JudyinCanada]

Plus he handed DQ very good material for their next commercial.

[Born to Conserve]

Where I live, there was a flying field on every large farm. There was an aircraft manufacture across the street, another one on the next hill, one a couple miles up the road, etc.

That was all before my time, but when I was young there was still an interest by the families of the builders and their employees, so someone landing in a field with a biplane, a helicopter, or some wacky autogiro was not a strange thing.

Good times. I hope when someone lands a helicopter where they shouldn’t, I’m there to see it.

[Angelino97]

[VTenigma]

A friend of mine did something similar and got hit ticket pulled.

[Openurmind]

Once had three big rigs lined up at my shop waiting to get worked on. All of a sudden a helicopter landed in line behind them as if he was next in line. After shutting down he came up and wanted directions to a specific project in the area. In the meantime two more trucks had lined up behind him. I wish I had a camera ready, that would have been a cool pic...

Another time an old tail dragger flew under the wires and landed on the street in front of the shop. And without letting the tail down spun it 90 degrees, drove in the drive way to where all the cars were parked, spun it around and then sat the tail down. Came in and asked “Anyone around here got any 50 weight oil?”.

[bramps]

At the Dairy Queen I go to in Salisbury Massachusetts on the New Hampshire line I call it chocolate dip. You could give me that cone on a 95 degrees summer day and not a drip of ice cream will hit the ground.