Could be one heck of a good publicity stunt

Sometimes, even military chopper pilots can get a craving whilst in the air. So, what’s a guy to do in such a case? Well, land the chopper in a baseball field and get some fast food, of course.

A Canadian military helicopter pilot with a sudden hankering for hamburgers set his aircraft down on a Kenora, Ont., baseball diamond, and walked into an A&W restaurant across the street for a takeout order.

"He ordered four papa burgers with cheese combos and two papa burgers on the side," server Stacey Hawes told CBC News on Thursday.

The pilot was nice and polite, and made it seem as if he was just driving a regular car, she added.

Laura Madison was in her house in Kenora when she heard the whirring noise of the helicopter blades just down the street. When she looked out her window, she couldn't believe her eyes.

"It's a huge double-door … helicopter, which you don't see landing in the middle of town every day," Madison said. "He went in and got some A&W takeout and took off. So we're laughing because it was the strangest drive-thru we've ever seen."

What’s amusing (other than the pilots’ apparent lack of taste – I mean, seriously, Arby’s?) is that there really isn’t anywhere a chopper can’t land, just as long as one follows either the FARs (Federal Aviation Regulations) in the US, or CARs (Canadian Aviation Regulations) in Canada. As strange as this story is, nothing in it is in any way illegal or against any rules, except perhaps the rules of normalcy.

Am I the only one in thinking this could open the doors for a whole new line of Arby’s commercials? (Hope so, considering how the current ones suck so damn badly.)

(via Diaphanus)
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