If you fancy yourself to be an ice cream lover, ask yourself this -- would you fly a helicopter to grab your favourite cone? Well, that is the new bar for food lovers thanks to a man from Canada who flew a helicopter to an ice cream parlour to satiate his cravings. The unidentified man however got a lot more than just his ice cream. He was, in fact, slapped with charges by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for making an illegal landing at the Dairy Queen in Tisdale. According to a report on the official website of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the man “landed in the middle of a Tisdale RCMP investigation” on July 31, at around 5 p.m.
While the police report did not mention the name of the man, it was revealed that he is a 34-year-old resident of Leroy, Saskatchewan. It is likely that he pulled off the stunt because Leroy does not have a Dairy Queen location. So instead, he flew 105 kilometers to the outlet.
The report added that the pilot made the landing in a “high traffic parking lot." As a result of this, "the helicopter blew up dust and debris through the area,” which houses several schools, an aquatic centre, among other things.
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The police shared the image of the helicopter in the parking lot.
Photo Credit: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Upon landing, a passenger made a quick exit out of the helicopter and headed to the Dairy Queen to purchase the ice cream cake, the report added. While the pilot was “licensed to drive the helicopter”, he was charged because it was illegal to land at the spot he chose to.
Tisdale Mayor Al Jellicoe who was at the site at the time of the incident told CBC that he had initially assumed that an air ambulance had landed when he spotted the red helicopter. Then he saw the passenger walk into Dairy Queen. "Well, I thought somebody must be hungry," Jellicoe said. "Initially, I thought that's probably not the right thing to do."
An employee of the Dairy Queen outlet, Kiara Broeckel, told the media that they had no clue of the incident until the pilot was charged. “I wouldn't think you would take a helicopter to go get ice cream, but I guess some people do," the employee added.
The man will appear in court in Melfort on September 7, 2021, the police department said.