Fly Zone Flapdoodle
The
residents surrounding St. John Hospital in Detroit are miffed because
helicopters are bringing injured patients to the hospital in life saving
journeys and the noise is disrupting the otherwise tranquil neighborhood. One of the homeowners even mentioned that “the noise of an approaching helicopter distracts him from watching
television in his front room.” Guess he
is not aware that reruns of “Gilligan’s Island” are available from the local
video store! Seriously, we’re talking
about life and death situations here so several minutes of a helicopter
delivering its precious cargo to the trauma center should not be a cause celebre! These neighborhood whiners should take a
lesson from our grade school nuns.
Anytime we heard a siren while in class, the nuns would ask us to pause
and say a prayer for whatever prompted the emergency. So the next time a helicopter flies over the
neighborhood, the residents should say a prayer of thanks that they themselves
are not in the helicopter! Short of that perhaps a meeting with the families
whose loved ones were transported in the helicopter in a life and death
situation would jolt these complainers into some sense of reality. Wouldn’t
that be an interesting meeting! In the
meantime, turn up the volume on the television!
Bill Kalmar
