Don't forget the local women's prison.Amazing how they have "targeted" captive audiences (literally.)
I forgot...was that a charity trip or a recruitment trip?
Don't forget the local women's prison.Amazing how they have "targeted" captive audiences (literally.)
Willem’s log: Scam date 5-11-07.
The Hellocopter aka USS Scheister ...<snipped middle>
I’m Willem the Great, why, oh why don’t people understand that?
Amen to that, Sister.I Just finished reading this thread. And I was eating dinner, too. I feel sick....
Yeah. You care, Willem. Shut up and donate the money; the kids need it a lot more than they need a publicity gig and tax write off for you.
I Just finished reading this thread. And I was eating dinner, too. I feel sick.
Ya gotta admit, PA makes it hard to figure if they're completely clueless or arrogantly avaricious, endlessly conniving, and unfailingly without regard for others, sans morals, ethics and consideration. I guess they could be merely stupid ... but they're getting rich being so.
If, when I was a kid in the hospital, some stranger had shown up with a thunder of helicopter blades, surrounded by cameras and false cheer (kids aren't stupid), to hand me a card written by another stranger, I would have started screaming for my mother. Especially if I discovered the card was written by yet another stranger who knew nothing about me or why I was there, but did it for a free lunch and appearing on film. And now in an orphanage? "So sorry you don't have any parents. Have a card. Now smile for the camera."
Yeah. You care, Willem. Shut up and donate the money; the kids need it a lot more than they need a publicity gig and tax write off for you.
Meiner's most recent post on the hellocopter site gives his opinion of trust.
http://www.hellocopter.org/blog.asp
"Sunday, April 06, 2008
What I'm getting at is that trust is all we have. Trust, confidence, faith, belief. It's something you exercise each and every day multiple times in a world that has multiple appearances. We trust gazillions of people that we have never even met, and dozens every day that we actually do meet without spending as much as a second quizzing them.
Are you certain that your doctor is really a doctor? Do you interview your anesthesiologist before you let him gas you? How can I be sure that the fuel guy at the Mexican airport who walks away with my Amex card so he can swipe it in a building that I have no access to, will actually return it? Is the barf on my plate really a Pakistani delicacy as advertised on Restaurant Himalaya's menu, and not barf?
The one and only reason why we say yes to those questions is not because our eyes can see, our ears can hear, or our noses can smell, but because we trust. We trust, believe, have faith an astonishing number of times per day. Something we were born with. If a baby wouldn't trust that it will make it through the day alive, despite the absence of any tools of self-sufficiency, it would hang itself at the first opportunity of reaching that cord with the cute little rabbits that's dangling from above. Trust is innate.
So if you do trust everyone else, why is it that you don't trust yourself in equal proportions, and then some?"
Now I personally don't agree that we are "born" with trust. It's something we learn from the caregivers and nurturers that surround us from birth on.
It's something that PA manages to destroy.
Wow..... now I need popcorn AND a fresh cup of coffee.
I wonder what THIS gem will go for? Will this be a freebie in the next great PA book special?
ESPN Radio had a spot where they were flying a helicopter over cities, dropping loads of commemorative baseball bats on the public.
Wake me when they start dropping the live turkeys.
Wonder why PA hasn't thought of this?
"As God is my witness, I didn't know that turkeys couldn't fly!"
sad thing is - I believed it.
Speaking of turkeys:
This hellocopter thing is perfect for delivering PA books written by all those PA authors who repeat the "I don't want to make money, I just want to be read" mantra and who are distressed that their books aren't getting "out."
For a special discount price (maybe 10% off cover), they can purchase books from PA who will "drop ship" the books free to unsuspecting potential readers, many of who might be too ill to protest.
Wonder why PA hasn't thought of this?
"As God is my witness, I didn't know that turkeys couldn't fly!"
sad thing is - I believed it.
imagine my fright when I came down to Pennsylvania and saw flocks of the suckers wing their way across the highway.