An NYPD helicopter was circling overhead late at night, making a lot of noise, an Edgewater Park man woke up and wondered what to do. Then, literally, a light went on.
Joseph Purdon, 46, of 50A Edgewater Park, has been arrested after he went out into his backyard around 1 a.m. on Thursday, July 1 and shined a huge, “twenty-five million candle power spotlight” at the chopper, according to a police report.
NYPD police officer Christopher Maher and detective Bruce Baver “were piloting a New York City aircraft and were traveling at an altitude of approximately one thousand feet, when [Maher] observed a bright light emanating from below that suddenly illuminated the cockpit, and the beam of light remained fixed on the cockpit, impending the vision of the flight crew,” reads to the report.
It was then that the pilot looked down and, using infrared vision, saw Purdon standing in his yard.
Purdon was brazenly aiming the giant light directly at the helicopter.
Police showe up and arrested Purdon on charges of reckless endangerment 1 and 2, and disorderly conduct.
According to the report, when police officers came to his home, Purdon indeed retrieved the light from inside his home, and simply said, “I knew you guys were going to come. I just got the light and was playing around with it.”
(Source: NY Post)
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First of all why was the helicopter circling so low at 1:00am?!? 2nd of all, it says in the article “I knew you guys were going to come. I just got the light and was playing around with it.” Now why would a guy lie to the police as opposed to DEFENDING HIMSELF?!?