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Citizen complaint of the day: Helicopter Sox fans
By adamg on Sun, 07/22/2012 - 7:02pm
A sore-eared Fenway resident complains:
Helicopter tours over Fenway Park creating massive noise pollution to neighborhood residents. Aren't there regulations against this?
Ed. note: Today's game would suggest the Sox are doing their best to end this problem as quickly as possible.
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Comments
On the contrary...
I think we've finally figured out what's distracting our starting pitchers. They can't concentrate, so they don't warm up properly, or maybe the rotors affect the wind in such a way as to make all their pitches turn into meatballs for the 1st few innings...I can't quite explain it exactly, but believe me, its the copters...
Medflight?
I've seen my share of low flying helicopters over Fenway Park but I thought most were Medflight coming and going to and fro the hospitals in the area. When are these helicopter "tours" taking place? It would seem a bit risky to allow non-emergency, non-media flights over a sold-out (so the Red Sox say) ballpark, especially post 9/11. It wouldn't take much for a terrorist posing as tourist to overpower the pilot and wipe out half the bleachers.
Depends on what you call "over"
There are already flight restrictions (from before 9/11/2001 if I recall) that make directly above the stadium a no-fly zone during games. However, you can sure see a lot of the ballpark from a few hundred feet up and circling the area...
Friday Night
The helicopters were all over the place and very loud. I was about 10 rows up from first base, and the sound of the rotors was indeed quite distracting.