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appalachiablue

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Wed Oct 28, 2020, 01:32 PM Oct 2020

104-Year-Old Rents Chopper For Northern Denmark Family Visit [View all]

AP News, Oct. 28, 2020.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — What is a 104-year-old woman to do if she wants to visit family members but can’t sit in a car for a long period of time?

Margrethe Hansen, who lives in a Denmark retirement home some 174 kilometers (108 miles) away from her 82-year-old son and her grandchildren, opted to go by helicopter. “I thought it was the fastest way to get away,” Hansen told Denmark’s TV2. “I do not know what it costs, but it was worth the money.”

A grandson picked up Hansen on Tuesday from her retirement home on the Danish island of Funen and drove her to a nearby field where a private helicopter waited. He lifted his grandmother onto the aircraft and sat her next to the pilot, and then took a backseat together with a nurse.

The flight to Stoevring in northern Denmark took roughly one hour. Hansen saw her relatives’ new houses from the sky and visited with them on the ground before taking the chopper home the same day.

“The first ride was the best. Otherwise, it was a bit bumpy, but it was fine,” Hansen told the channel. ~

https://apnews.com/article/denmark-a376680cf18f027f0ef34dfabec30fb5

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Great story! dhol82 Oct 2020 #1
Good for her! Grammys rock. appalachiablue Oct 2020 #2
Totally! dhol82 Oct 2020 #3
What's "weird" about that? n/t Harker Oct 2020 #4
Not weird, but the story didn't really fit in any other category here. appalachiablue Oct 2020 #5
Ah... Harker Oct 2020 #6
Agree, very sweet lady, strong too. appalachiablue Oct 2020 #9
As a dylexic it was weird for me. I read it as she rented a chipper ... marble falls Oct 2020 #7
Shades of Fargo? Harker Oct 2020 #8
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