I wonder how many ranchers and farmers are subsidized by the .gov? Was he one?
They just now showed the video on channel 9 and now the OHP says the guy was likely NOT armed.
He was just throwing rocks.
He was just throwing rocks.
Guess no one on the Blackhawk had a crossbow, huh?
This is what I was thinking.lol
Damn that's funny! lmao
From what I could see on the video it looked like he was just waving his arms, as if to wave the chopper off.
It was kind of blurry though.
Maybe the pilot should have dumped the water on him.
It was kind of blurry though.
Maybe the pilot should have dumped the water on him.
In most cases I'd agree, but since the state already has the authority under the law, and we are dealing with a rapidly evolving fast moving wildfire, having the pilot grab water where he sees it is much faster than: Pilot locates pond, calls in the location, waits for someone to be dispatched, waits for that someone to find the pond he's talking about, waits for someone to locate landowner, waits for permission to be relayed back, then gets water if he hasn't run out of fuel and/or the fire hasn't moved even farther and destroyed more lives/property.
Still goes back to the all too common example of people beating their chests and saying "I know my rights" when quite often they don't have a clue what "their rights" are in the given situation.
"Give me 90 degrees right"
A friend of mine's only source of water for his home is from a pond. A pond that he just spent 6 grand on to have cleaned out and made bigger and he is also running a 3 inch pump from another pond a half mile away to keep the new one filled. This is after he has sold his livestock and is now only trying to keep his household in water. Lots of areas in northern Oklahoma have no rural water lines and drilling for water is nearly impossible. Lots of homes have pumps and filter systems set up on ponds..
