# Catcopter (not for the faint of heart) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046 "2012-06-04T16:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/41 "2012-06-05T02:31:29Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > \*Why \*did no one think to do the same thing with Elizabeth Taylor?! I could hear it now: “No, Dammit, not Spruce Goose. Grey Goose! Grey Goose..! Oh, the hell with it. You’re useless. Just bury me already…” ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/42 "2012-06-05T06:11:07Z")
I wonder, do birds take it for a cat, or a copter? ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/43 "2012-06-05T11:14:53Z")
I want to be a helicopter when I die. Imagine the nightmares I can cause at Halloween! ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/44 "2012-06-05T12:36:10Z")
Orville [got a mention](http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=154339293&m=154282478) on NPR’s Morning Edition today. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/45 "2012-06-05T13:24:28Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Imagine this thing buzzing the neighborhood dogs. Imagine these dogs trying to convince the dogs from the next neighbourhood over. “Swear to God, he was _flying_!” “Yeah, right, a flying cat. What do look like? A cocker spaniel?” ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/46 "2012-06-05T16:06:32Z")
I dunno. I can see why people find it funny, but I think there’s something kind of disrespectful about it. And I’m far from stuffy about these kinds of things. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/47 "2012-06-05T16:39:40Z")
Great video [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpV81A2URJE&feature=youtu.be) of Orville chasing cows around a field. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/48 "2012-06-05T16:44:59Z")
It’s an awesome idea. I think the cat would’ve appreciated his new-found bird-like mobility. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/49 "2012-06-05T21:07:54Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > _I kan haz gunn turretz?_ You win the thread. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/50 "2012-06-05T21:22:06Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > [QUOTE=voltaire] > > I kan haz gunn turretz? You win the thread. [/QUOTE] Y’know that “cak-cak-cak-cak” chittering sound cats make when they see a squirrel outside the window? I’m imagining gunn turretz sound effects now… ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/51 "2012-06-05T22:07:54Z")
I just saw the “Orvillecopter” on CNN and now I’m reading this thread and laughing my ass off! > [@tdn](#): > > But I’ve never seen a doggy rocket, so there’s that. > [@Skammer](#): > > [Allow me.](http://rulingcatsanddogs.com/funny-pet-picture-33-Fedex-dog-rocket-canine-parcel-delivery-service.htm) Did anyone else think that link was going to be a picture of a dog’s “red rocket.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/52 "2012-06-05T22:48:03Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Great video [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpV81A2URJE&feature=youtu.be) of Orville chasing cows around a field. Says the video was removed. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/53 "2012-06-06T00:12:31Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Says the video was removed. That’s weird; I watched it this morning and it was just about a minute and a half of Orville buzzing around the field scaring the cows, accompanied by his owner and another guy talking in German or Dutch or something. Nothing spammy or scammy. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/54 "2012-06-06T11:56:21Z")
[Different copy of the video, with interview in Dutch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-S4DZ_aWNuU#t=102s) ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/55 "2012-06-06T12:06:48Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Imagine these dogs trying to convince the dogs from the next neighbourhood over. > > “Swear to God, he was _flying_!” > “Yeah, right, a flying cat. What do look like? A cocker spaniel?” I appologize if it’s already been posted… but you have to wonder how long it will be before we see a hog-copter on youtube. Where’d that pig go that was on the highway outside of pittsburgh… here piggy… ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/56 "2012-06-06T12:09:27Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > That’s weird; I watched it this morning and it was just about a minute and a half of Orville buzzing around the field scaring the cows, accompanied by his owner and another guy talking in German or Dutch or something. Nothing spammy or scammy. Probably a copyright complaint. ---
**Author:** ![gunnergoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@gunnergoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunnergoz)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/57 "2012-06-06T13:16:53Z")
How sick. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/58 "2012-06-06T16:24:24Z")
I saw a portion of the second video on the late news last night. I went to bed with a smile on my face for the first time in a long time. And I love cats. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/59 "2012-06-06T16:27:05Z")
I showed this to my SO last night and he laughed so hard he nearly choked. My SO is a fairly serious man and rarely laughs that hard. It was nice to hear. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/60 "2012-06-06T16:34:08Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > When people make the argument for solipsism, it’s things like this that refute the concept for me. Because I know that no matter how long I lived, I never would have come up with the idea of converting a dead cat into a helicopter. I’m imagining that this, like so many other ideas, started with the phrase, “Here, hold my beer.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046.md?page=4)