WEG Day #32
Yesterday was an interesting day.
Carr-Hughes hired a Hughes 500D helicopter to fly around and get aerial shots of the park. Then they had hooked up with a local equestrian to fly by her as her horse is galloping. My hope was to get a ride in the helicopter. Due to weather, we were really crunched on time, an it never happened. BUT, that wasn't the most interesting part.
Before the helicopter landed I met up with Dorothy Crowell, the rider, and Picadilly (or Pickles), the horse. We scouted around to find a good place for filming. To the left of the field we were in was a prison. We talked to the Black Burn medium security prison to let them know not to shoot at us when the helicopter comes by. They thanked us, and we went our day of shooting.
Pickles the horse didn't like the helicopter
I had a radio that was in communication with the helicopter, they'd do a fly-by and show Dorothy where to ride. She'd book it with Pickles, and I'd flag her down when they got the shots they wanted. After about half-an-hour the director was pleased with the work we'd done and had released us. I walked Dorothy back, and said goodbye to Pickles.
About a half-hour later I received a voicemail from Dorothy. Apparently after I'd left a car came up to Dorothy and asked who she was and if she was connected to the helicopter that was flying by. She said, "Yes", and the gentleman said, "Next time you need to call the local prison, and let them know you're going to do this." She said, "We did. We called Black Burn." He said, "That's fine, but you didn't call THAT prison."
We didn't call the KENTUCKY STATE MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON HOSPITAL. Sooo..... Dorothy said, "What happened we flew by?", "Well, a bunch of alarms went off and three guards pointed high-powered rifles at the helicopter." "Oh"
Needless to say, we won't be doing THAT again.
From the Horse Park
brian
posted by DaveandBrian @ 8:14 AM
1 Comments:
I thought like Mom did, that Pickles would NOT like the helicopter. I never thought there would be a SWAT team trying to shoot it down!!
Which leads me to my next thought... shouldn't the WEGS person in charge of the area know which prison is RIGHT NEXT to where you're going to be? And if it is so close by and this is such a huge event, wouldn't the prison have a WEGS contact to call for clarification?
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