flutter by a helicopter

hi all,

reporting back a lot late. sorry busy with many mnay things.

ours is a quaint little town where not much happens that can amuse you or raise your eyebrows or make you gasp.

But something did happen yesterday.

i was on my regular 4 km morning walk today morning whan i spotted a few heads looking at some big thing. Naturally i did what anybody else would do. go there. thats it, I went there and to my surprise saw this firey red chopper nicely perched in the big ground in the centre of the town.

I wondered how did this come here. No political leader was suppesed to visit. Moreover the elections are over. So now these people are not going to see our face for the next couple of years, until they shamelessly come begging for votes again!

People were inquisitively looking at the chopper, a first close look for many of them ( including me!). there was a fire engine and an ambulance as a standby. three policemen were 'guarding' the flying machine.

On enquuiring with the onlookers the whole story was revealed.

It seems that the heavy industries minister of our state, along with his family, took off in the choper a day before from kankavli, around 300 km south of dapoli, to go to mumbai, the capital of our state.
the chopper was caught in rough weather, and due to sudden darkening the pilot could not see. The chopper started drifting from its course. They were trynig to land in a safe place, when they found out our ground and perched their helicopter there.
The minister and the family left for mumbai in a car, and the pilot stayed back overnight.

The poor policemen and the firemen had to stay put near the chopper for the whole night, guarding the machine and the makeshift 'helipad'.

This incident gave some food for gossip to the localites and now this will be churned and churned for days together.

The pilot left late in the morning after some refilling.

The helicopter has reached its hangar.

But gossips wiil be here to stay for a long time to come!!

see you soon.

Till then, good bye!!!!