{"id":827,"date":"2023-07-11T05:45:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=827"},"modified":"2023-07-11T05:45:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:45:22","slug":"helicopter-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter Picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a>One Colorado man\u2019s facing federal criminal charges for landing a helicopter in the middle of a national park, to go on a picnic\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Copter Incident in Natl Park\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:31)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-4405dd20-8c24-44d3-a66b-fd73357f807a\" href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230711-Copter-Incident-In-Natl-Park.mp3\">230711-Copter-Incident-In-Natl-Park<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230711-Copter-Incident-In-Natl-Park.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-4405dd20-8c24-44d3-a66b-fd73357f807a\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal Parks Service says last month, it got calls about a chopper landing in Wyoming\u2019s Grand Teton National Park.&nbsp; Rangers got out there and found the aircraft, along with suspect Peter Smith and his friend enjoying a picnic lunch, next to a scenic lake.&nbsp; Smith runs a helicopter company from the Gunnison airport, and is now facing two misdemeanor charges for illegal use of an aircraft.&nbsp; The Parks Service now says this is kind of Smith\u2019s \u201cthing.\u201d&nbsp; Last February, he flew an airplane too low through Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park.&nbsp; For that, he only had to pay a 530-dollar fine.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Colorado man\u2019s facing federal criminal charges for landing a helicopter in the middle of a national park, to go on a picnic\u2026 (Copter Incident in Natl Park\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:31) The federal Parks Service says last month, it got calls about a chopper landing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}