Mass transport for ordinary folks is being shut down, in the great state of New York, for the sake of greedy plutocrats, and The People are fighting back.
The days of cheap thirty-minute Manhattan-to-East-Hampton helicopter flights will soon be over, giving travelers who can only afford the $700 – $800 fare no option but to battle surface traffic to get to the Hamptons, while private helicopter owners ($4,000 and more per flight) are free to keep landing their enormous earth-shattering Sikorskys.
“The tycoons who own helicopters and ferry their guests back and forth to the city are the worst [noise] offenders,” said one local.
“And they tend to use the high-status, louder, Sikorsky choppers — the civilian model of the Black Hawk — rather than the smaller, quieter models used by [mass transporter] Blade.”
(The Sikorsky pilots are equipped with body armor, M-16s, Hellfire Missiles, and cyanide tablets in case a reporter disguised as a summer renter pulls out a gun and demands details on the owner’s Paradise Papers companies.)
America’s owners of massive loud military helicopters have generated opposition on both sides [Manhattan/East Hampton] of this itinerary, as “sensitive local serfs” protest ceaseless earsplitting noise immediately above their hovels.
The plutocrats have thus managed to shut down market competition and enrage two local populations.
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Once Vinod Khosla takes the beach away from Californians, this class war will be pretty much over.
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Superior snark here.
May 1st, 2018 at 6:38PM
So I guess riding the bus is not how one gets to the Hamptons?
May 1st, 2018 at 8:01PM
wayward: LOL!