Awwwwwww.

It reminds me, though, of my mother's stories about working on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. In the winter the sidewalks would get icy, and the wind coming off the lake would be atrocious. She worked in a law office (I think) with big windows on the street, and she used to watch elderly women in heels getting blown backwards down the icy sidewalk.

She worked in a law office (I think) with big windows on the street, and she used to watch elderly women in heels getting blown backwards down the icy sidewalk.

Wouls she hold up a sign saying '8.1' for a good landing?

Hee. Knowing my mother, yes, probably.

What a great story.

meh. cool would have the deer scampering to safety and the helicopter tilting dangerously until the rotor blade hit the ice causing the chopper to crash, unleashing a huge fireball, and jagged chunks of the rotors careening wildly into a nearby crowd causing several decapitations and bloody mayhem as the ice melted and the lake swallowed up dozens of innocent bystanders.

just sayin'...

Skill.

Yay deer!

ya ditto UWS that is one really skilled chopper pilot. jesus.

Have you seen the video of the deer scooting seated across the ice? So funny, and cool.

Aw, sweet! Thanks for finding the footage, BP!

Oh man, thanks for the video BP. It was sad and funny and happy all at the same time.

meh. cool would have the deer scampering to safety and the helicopter tilting dangerously until the rotor blade hit the ice causing the chopper to crash, unleashing a huge fireball, and jagged chunks of the rotors careening wildly into a nearby crowd causing several decapitations and bloody mayhem as the ice melted and the lake swallowed up dozens of innocent bystanders..

That would be pretty cool but it would be even cooler if all that ruckus woke up some giant 500 foot tall tentacle-faced monster that devoured Bambi and the crowd and then the town and stomped everything to pieces and it was getting bigger so they nuked it and it got even bigger and they realized they had to freeze it instead so they strapped together like 5 Space Shuttles and twenty extra external tanks filled with inert liquid nitrogen to make a big ass cryogenic bomb and on board was Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson and like Rachel Ray and Stone Phillips and like, damn, thousands of really obnoxious and useless celebrities packed inside and strapped all over the outside and shit. Man would that be cool.

That would be pretty cool but it would be even cooler if all that ruckus woke up some giant 500 foot tall tentacle-faced monster that devoured Bambi and the crowd and then the town and stomped everything to pieces and it was getting bigger so they nuked it and it got even bigger and they realized they had to freeze it instead so they strapped together like 5 Space Shuttles and twenty extra external tanks filled with inert liquid nitrogen to make a big ass cryogenic bomb and on board was Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson and like Rachel Ray and Stone Phillips and like, damn, thousands of really obnoxious and useless celebrities packed inside and strapped all over the outside and shit. Man would that be cool.

I laughed. So hard. The tears made it very hard to keep reading.