Didn’t we try to break the spirit of a holed-up enemy by blasting raucous music in his general direction? Noise is a torture technique. I don’t think anyone who has fantasized about aiming a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher at a low-hovering chopper could empathize much in this situation. I know I can’t.

The costly ride was a birthday present to him he is one of those guys who has everything and needs nor wants nothing and so I came up with the idea for the helecopter ride.

I agree that there are too many helecopters in the air but to abolish all of the tourist helecopters would be a loss.

Helicopter rides are perfectly safe for the most part. Clearly, the vast majority of them do not crash, (and there are a lot of them) so they aren’t unreasonably unsafe. Not to mention all the copters used be emergency personal and the media.

And then you come on here and say this 20-year-old girl deserved to die on her birthday because her being in a helicopter annoyed you… What if it had been a hot air balloon instead? Would you still call her a victim of vanity?

Honestly, if I could alter reality to change places between you and the poor young girl, I would do it; because you are the only person around deserving of such a fate for wishing it on another.

You’ve just raised the ire of half your neighborhood against anyone they encounter named Ms. Elmers, so you better hope that isn’t your real name. Or, better yet, you might consider leaving this neighborhood that you have so little respect for- before you get run out on a rail (whatever that means)…

Joyriding helicopters do not belong over densely-populated urban areas!

Narcissist:
A person who is overly self-involved, and often vain and selfish.

I’m sorry MY comments are not mature enough for you. I met my fair share of self absorbed snobs in law school – I guess I just prefer the company of the slack-jawed working class rubes of the NYPD.

This article started off by saying that the inevitable happened and that a tourist helicopter crashed.
But more importantly this is exactly the problem with using helicopters for vanity. They should be used for essential activities like medical emergencies or wars as they are unsafe, intrusive and noisy so let’s not waste people’s patience with shuttling silly and unsuspecting tourists around our city.

Those make just as much noise. You might need one someday.

p.s. and yes it’s a sad day when a tragedy brings welcome relief to someone else.

Let me explain it to you since you are not getting it:

Use of helicopters for vanity is not a smart way to live life so why should i feel sorry for someone who not only choose to endanger their own life but greatly disturbed mine in the process??
This quiet neighborhood has turned into a sh*t show in the last couple of years because of the non-stop helicopter traffic and the noise that they make.
No one likes them and the Mayor has been notified numerous times of how dangerous they are for wide public use as well as the potential to diminish quality of life for residents in the city. Manhattan had to sue to get rid of them, that’s how much they liked having them there. So here is an accident that has been talked about and anticipated and yes I told them so too. A few more and maybe this nonsense will stop.

Surely you’re no longer surprised by comments like ms elmers’. There’s always someone who views a tragedy as some kind of retribution/comeuppance so they can say “I told you so.” It’s an unfortunate part of human nature.

I cannot believe you consider a truly unfortunate event that resulted in a death as “gift to Brooklyn Heights” and your own relief from a minor annoyance. Raises self-absorbed to a whole new level, and it’s not pretty.

What is not a red herring is the insane-making noise…

What this tragedy really means is that all chopper flights will now only be allowed to depart and land at the Wall Street heliport. What a gift for BKH residents…..