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Mystery chopper not law enforcement related

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Walter Geiger
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Friday, February 8. 2013
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The Herald-Gazette has gotten multiple calls regarding a helicopter hovering over Redbud Drive and Country Kitchen Road Friday night. Preliminary contact with law enforcement indicates the chopper is not airborne on behalf of either the Lamar sheriff's office or the Barnesville Police Department.

UPDATE: Investigator Al Moltrum of the BPD says officers worked a domestic dispute on Redbud Dr. but it had nothing to do with the chopper. So...

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#1 Annette Glenn on 02/08/13 at 10:17 PM
We heard it in Ashley Oaks. It flew over us pretty low and loud. I got up and went outside to see it traveling East? I think, then it turned more sharply in that direction. We discussed it because my sister said it was unusual here. Barnesville, as far as I know, does not have a news chopper. I said maybe someone was taking flying lessons getting night certified.
#2 Fed Up on 02/09/13 at 07:18 AM
I just figured it was the life flight chopper, but I did notice it was very loud over Murphey Ave. about 8 O'clock
#3 It's Me on 02/09/13 at 07:28 AM
We saw and heard it near Aldora and Greenwood St.
#4 Cats on 02/09/13 at 07:34 AM
I certainly heard the chopper last night as I live on Redbud Drive.
Reminds me of an incident a few years ago.... (Us seasoned folks like to reminisce)
We were hearing a large chopper in this area so we went investigating (snooping)
A large military chopper was performing touch and go's using the soccer field by the BA. First touch and go blew the aluminum bleachers clear out into the woods.
The chopper touched the ground then swiftly lifted off and flew away. 10 minutes later, same thing. This went on for well over an hour.
Obviously a military exercise. Why Barnesville? Well, that's the mysterious part.
#5 Jere Koser on 02/09/13 at 08:45 AM
vibrated our house on Thomaston Street. Must have been low and large.
#6 lonnie dalton on 02/09/13 at 10:02 AM
'Sorry, we thought we had the drone on silent"......CIA hit squad
#7 lucy english on 02/09/13 at 04:01 PM
I saw two helicopters circling over the Thomaston St, Greenwood St., and Elm St. areas before they split off and went in opposite directions.
#8 diane taylor on 02/09/13 at 10:44 PM
Sounded like it/they were right over my house on Spencer.
#9 Susan Hester on 02/10/13 at 12:36 AM
They carried out exercises last week in Miami. They even shot blanks from the helicopters. The news in Miami reported it was an exercise between the Military & the Police, but would not elaberate. They have been doing this in big cities lately. Some think it is the beginning of a police state. May be nothing just sayin. Something to think about.
#10 Susan Hester on 02/10/13 at 12:39 AM
I heard them also. I live off Thomaston Hwy and they were so loud and low that I thought they were going to land on my property.
#11 Steven Epps on 02/10/13 at 01:28 AM
With the fed. govt. we got these days, who knows who these copters are?! I am not paranoid as I have been in several military services in my life, and this is what these d.a.'s voted in, and now it may come home to roost. All I can say is be prepared as we said in the Boy Scouts! Eagle Scout, not a d.a.! God Bless America until JESUS takes us home, Amen!!
#12 Ken Green on 02/10/13 at 06:43 PM
I was craving food from the Varsity so I called in an order and they delivered...a chili cheese steak, a nekkid dog walking, 2 orders of "rangs" and a large FO...

"what'll ya have???"
#13 Earth, Wind & Fire on 02/11/13 at 01:05 PM
I heard one, at least, maybe two, from the Yatesville area that sounded as if they were coming from Barnesville toward the Thomaston airport.
#14 Steven Epps on 02/11/13 at 09:50 PM
When I was in DaNang,S.Vietnam in 1970 in 5th Comm. Bn, III Marine Amph. Force and stationed at Camp Hoa Long Marine Base, about half way between Monkey Mountain and Marble Mountain I used to see four Marine Cobra Helicopters fly north over my Marine base and fly out over the South China Sea and head south to go kill Viet Cong and NVA, the hardcore commies! I now see Marine Cobra helicopters fly over my home occasionally and I know who at least one of them are as I used to see him play football for R.E. Lee and my wife used to work for his granddaddy and daddy.

We also have a gooney bird C-46 or C-47 paratrooper plane fly over our home constantly on Saturdays as the are dropping skydivers from Thomaston Airport, and it flys fairly low over our home and as old as they are and I remember when one crashed in Griffin a few years ago and took out part of the building where the Rose's Store is, and it kind of concerns me but what can I say. My Daddy jumped in France behind German lines on D-Day,June 6, 1944 out of one of those planes and lived to tell about it until he died in 1995, but he never really talked about WWII.

We had them in Vietnam, but they were usually AC-47 gunships with mini-guns that fired about 6000 rounds a minute and they saved alot of Marine, Soldiers, etc. and what an awesome weapon they were. Now they have AC-130 gunships and I have flown on a C-130 once but it was not a gunship.

We also see a lot of Army Blackhawks fly from West to East, and others even about four Marine Osphreys or whatever they call them Marine transports that took the place of the Marine Sea Stallions, I believe.

Semper Fi, till I die, USMC,1968-72.
#15 Well Well on 02/13/13 at 08:54 PM
Mr. Epps, The Osprey's are taking the place of the CH-46 Sea Knight. I worked and Crewed CH-53 A/D's which was upgraded to the E model and now they have the K model in the works. Semper Fi
On the Miami exercises, those "shots" heard was not from the helicopters!! More media hype!!!!
If "they" wanted you dead, you'd be dead!!!!!

Marine 82-86
#15.1 Steven Epps on 02/15/13 at 12:22 AM
Yep, the CH-46 Sea Knight, my bad I reckon as I am getting old. I have a friend who was a crew chief on Marine helicopters down the beach from me at Marble Mountain MAG-16, and I went to see him twice before he rotated back to the "World" as we called home, the USA, but he was on missions both times, and I saw him not long ago in T-Town at Norris' Fine Foods with his youngest brother. I never flew on a Marine helicopter, but I tried to volunteer to be a door gunner but the Corps wouldn't let me as I had a critical MOS 2531 Field Radio Operator, "Radio humper" is what they called us back then, and they told us in radio school that when a firefight started in Nam we would have about 13 seconds to live. Well Well, by the "Grace of God" I am still here, and I was in an artillery unit at Camp Pendleton right out of radio school, and then a Radio Chief at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and then in 5th Comm Bn. in DaNang, and then in Bravo Co.,2th Recon Bn. at Onslow Beach at Camp Lejuene, and then at Marine Barracks, NAS Cecil Field, Fla. as Cpl. of the Guard with 21 igloo's with maybe you know what I ran those to the USS Saratoga aircraft carrier at Mayport, Fl. at least twice, and Saratoga almost got Quaddfi in Libya in 1983 or so as I not sure at the moment. Got out at Marine Barracks Cecil Field Weapons side in June 1972.

Air Force Reserve, 1982-86, and Army Civil Service Employee at Ft. Benning,Ga. I have been where they try to kill you day and night and I am no hero but my Daddy was and some of my local highschool Marine friends were and some gave all, and all gave some. Semper Fi. I know they can kill any of us when they want, but GOD will take us believers home when HE is ready.

I have someone I consider a friend who went to Grenada and then was sent to Beirut, Lebanon during your service time.

Semper Fi!
#16 joe kazoz on 03/07/13 at 08:02 PM
C'mon people, it was one of Obama's drones.
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