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Santa's chopper shot over Rio slum - Twin-Skies - 12-18-2007
Via MSNBC
Quote:RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Not even Santa Claus is safe as the violent Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro celebrates the Christmas season.
Drug traffickers in a Rio slum opened fire on a helicopter carrying a Santa to a children's party, apparently mistaking it for a police helicopter, police said on Tuesday.
"They thought it was a police operation and started shooting. Luckily, nobody was hurt," a police official said.
The helicopter had to return to its base after the attack.
Two bullet holes were found in its fuselage.
Police said the pilot, contracted to take an actor dressed as Santa to the party in the Nova Mare slum, was flying over the neighboring Vila Joao shantytown when it was fired upon on Sunday.
Santa later returned to Nova Mare by car to distribute Christmas presents.
Most of Rio's 700-plus slums are controlled by drug traffickers and are not regularly patrolled by police, who instead go into the slums in military-style raids, often using helicopters and armored vehicles.
RE: Santa's chopper shot over Rio slum - Serene - 12-19-2007
Hmm...
Lumps of coal for the bad boys.
RE: Santa's chopper shot over Rio slum - Grim - 12-19-2007
Oh man. Poor Santa.
RE: Santa's chopper shot over Rio slum - wanzerfreak - 12-19-2007
lol...good thing those bastards weren't armed with shoulder-fired SAMs.....
RE: Santa's chopper shot over Rio slum - Sforza - 12-19-2007
That was really stupid on the part of the policemen. They allowed poor old Santa to fly over Rio's slum areas knowing full well that the chopper could (and probably would) be fired upon. Rio has one of the worst police forces in the world. They ought to get (and made to wear) Hello Kitty briefs for Christmas, and lime green/yellow/pink stripped socks.
From wiki:
In 2001 the murder rate in Rio was 45 for every 100,000 people and between 1978 and 2000, 49,900 people were killed in Rio. The numbers are comparable with war conflict zones like Baghdad and Kabul. Only 3% of murder cases are solved, considering the police have killed around 3.7 people a day in 2007. Compare this to 347 for the whole year 2006 by the entire US police force.
Oh and lastly? This topic does not merit a thread of its own. I suggest making a silly real news thread and putting all relevant articles there.
RE: Santa's chopper shot over Rio slum - Black Dragon - 12-19-2007
wanzerfreak Wrote:lol...good thing those bastards weren't armed with shoulder-fired SAMs.....
You can say that again...
"Santa 1 missile behind you! Turn and evade!"
This just proves no one is safe
RE: Santa's chopper shot over Rio slum - clonezero - 12-19-2007
you have to give the actor credit he returned after that.
RE: Santa's chopper shot over Rio slum - Fox - 12-20-2007
If that ever becomes real come Christmas Eve...
Somewhere over Russian Airspace, 00:02 December 25, 2007
Rudolph - Santa, that russkie MiG just dropped a seeker on our six.
Santa - Evasive maneuvers, deploy countermeasures and divert all power to propulsion!
Prancer - Too late! Eject, eject!
Too bad a missile still outruns a reindeer.
RE: Santa's chopper shot over Rio slum - clonezero - 12-20-2007
hey how would you know ... he does sneak into every chimneyed house in the world in one night...