Guest 665- Registered: 24 Mar 2008
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Does anyone know what's going on, I have been hearing a helicopter circling for a good 10 minutes now.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Weirdest heli I've ever heard. Sounds like it's powered by coal or wood.
Guest 665- Registered: 24 Mar 2008
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Finally has gone! Can get some sleep!
Guest 769- Registered: 3 Sep 2012
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i just noticed that. as usual we probably wont hear anything. a lot of local occurances seem to go under the radar
Guest 768- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
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As I used to live on the Hamlets I can vouch for the unreported occurences.
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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I am lead to believe their was a fatal RTA on London road involving a motorcyclist
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Guest 665- Registered: 24 Mar 2008
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Oh no, how awful! I hope that's not true. Didn't hear any sirens or anything beforehand so did not expect it to be a medical emergency. Fingers crossed that's only a rumour.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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It sounded like we were about to be attacked, awful noise
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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It did at least three circles that would have included DGGS and Morrisons car park as it was right overhead, the noisy thing could do with a silencer being fitted.
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Kent 999s ‏@Kent_999s
DOVER update: Helicopter over Dover last night after burglary St Richards School, Castle Avenue. Two men arrested. Stolen laptops recovered.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Thank you Martin, that explains why it was circling overhead and well done to the police.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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pleased that there wasn't a fatal accident.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Cant help thinking its a bit of an over reaction from the police, a helicopter to catch a burglar.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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It does at times appear that there has ever been an odd quirk of logic applied to matters crime & criminal, so different from that applied elsewhere:Education, Health...Defence etc.
If it were to be otherwise one might expect the helicopter to be sold, the crew dispensed with and the joys of insurance played-up.
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Or perhaps a halfway house Tom of swapping a helicopter for a bike or panda car.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it does smack of sledgehammer walnut syndrome, must have cost a few bob to deploy a helicopter.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The helicopter may well have been up anyway and the heat-sensitive cameras they carry might have helped where tens of bobbies might not.
At the bottom lies the high-street/online Fence, and the illegality of drugs.
I wonder if the case is different for Local Authority controlled Schools and those run for profit, in that the first might buy in bulk and insist the laptops are less useful outwith the school and the others just go for the cheapest deal?
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Oh I see, we've now got helicopers circling in case a burglary occurs.
Ever heard of George Orwell Tom?
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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yeah desent bloke,was in the pub with him last night.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ahem...I am sure that pilots and crew are required to do a certain amount of hours flying and that the machine itself must be tested regularly.
Anyroadup, these officers are, and this equipment is, there to be used. It is not 'possible' to arrange for a fatal road accident or brutal slaying to occur just so as they can all keep their hand in.
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