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Local News Chopper Covering Flash Flood Stumbles on Men Rafting…With an Air Mattress

A local news station’s helicopter flying over the Las Vegas area capturing flash flood footage brought on from a deluge of rain Wednesday, spotted a group of men taking advantage of a flood channel . . . on an air mattress.

Three Men in Henderson, Nev. Spotted by Helicopter Floating Down Flood Channel on Air Mattress

(Image: YouTube/AP screenshot)

KTNV reports its Action News Hawk spied the men who “cheered and waved as they floated shirtless down the rushing flood channel.” It filmed this footage of their endeavors:

But KTNV wasn’t the only helicopter in the air above Henderson, Nev., yesterday afternoon. It reports a police helicopter ordering the men out of the water, at which point they pulled their floatation device from the rushing stream. It has not been reported if a citation was issued for rafting on the potentially dangerous water.

The Sacramento Bee reported weather conditions were such that a few motor accidents occurred while others stalled. About 14,000 customers lost electricity for a brief period in one Las Vegas neighborhood as well. The flooding was the result of an inch and a half of rain being dropped within an hour.

Comments (45)

  • grownup
    Posted on August 24, 2012 at 4:24am

    Gonna get me an air mattress. They look like three red necks. Give you the shirt off their backs if you asked. Or if you needed help moving they would be there with a truck. No charge. Just about the opposite of a progressive. One type of folks are givers and the others are takers. One type wants to control all the others and the other kind wants to live as free as possible. One wants to be the elite and enslave the other. One lives by hate and the other by love.

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  • dumpsterdog
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:14pm

    Sounds like something only the Chicago thugs would condone.

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  • 9111315
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 7:00pm

    They got a citation for having too much fun in the first degree.

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  • mensa141
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 6:47pm

    Could someone get more busybody than this? Potentially dangerous current? What do you call white water rafting? The only citation that should be written is for the news crew that may have falsely alerted the police to what they perceived as someone having a bit of fun.

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  • thekuligs
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 4:05pm

    They were trying to get away from the president (he was in town that day).

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  • teddyc73
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:34pm

    For a second I thought that was Marshall, Will and Holly on a routine expedition.

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  • Bluefish49
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:11pm

    When I was a kid living in Lawton OK back in the 70′s we would use the old single Army air mattress to do the same thing but we would run the concrete storm ditches….I remember getting stuck in a culvert running under a road until the water pressure built up behind me and shot me out like a cannon…ahh good times. Oh and I also road in a car without seat belts and lived in house with lead paint…I’m 51 and still kicking.

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  • erroneous
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:43pm

    I almost guarantee these guys are Mormon, Its in Henderson and there is no beer.

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    • Charisma
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 12:59pm

      You obviously must not live in Henderson, NV.

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    • Weiners Wiener
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 2:40pm

      What are you talking about? I live just outside of Henderson. Henderson has about 30 casinos and 700 bars. 24 hour liquor sales.

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    • SocialistSlayer
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 4:04pm

      Why are you bashing a religion? Only Communists don’t believe in God!

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    • thekuligs
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 4:07pm

      Where the heck did you get that (wrong) information? Sadly, I live in Las Vegas and do most of my shopping in Henderson. There are tons of casinos and bars–you can even play slots in the K-Mart.

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  • jungle J
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 11:08am

    The unfemaized males…my brothers…and, yes I love and respect…respectable women.

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  • Rodeoamy
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 10:25am

    Wait – Is that Prince Harry?

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  • kalayaan
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:47am

    That is nothing new…the Philippines was flooded last week and I saw in the news that rescuers were using air mattress to rescue people….

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  • momrules
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:07am

    I was a country girl raised in the E.Texas woods. I remember climbing onto the roof of the barn with my sister and cousins to have spit races down the roof, driving a jeep ( at age 13 ) through the pastures with a .22 to shoot armadillos because the holes they dug could cause the cows to get hurt. We would swing off wild grapevines out of trees, ride horses like Comanches, swim in rivers and creeks, chase snakes………the list is endless. These are the things we girls did. What my brother and the other boys did would curl your hair.

    Those are the type of things we did the minute we got out of Mom and Dad’s sight and somehow we survived. Ahh…..redneck fun in the good old days.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:32am

      Recently while just floating on some inner tubes on a Ct. Lake on a hot summer day we were approached by a D.E.P. officer who informed us we needed a flotation device while on a watercraft. We tried to explain that the tube was a floatation device and not a watercraft. He threatened us with large fines and arrest and ruined our lazy day of floating on an inner tube.

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    • Nathaniel Horn
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:20pm

      The real danger is that the Nanny State, in its mounting and constant abhorrence of anything remotely dangerous and likely to result in the least little bobo will so frustrate the human spirit over time that one fine summer day we will all simply erupt into spontaneous, bloody, riotous warfare and revolution. The first to go will be anybody or anything remotely resembling an authority symbol of figure.

      It will be just like when the Japanese exploded in bloody sadism upon China and the rest of the world after lifetimes of hyper social control. Gotta leave some play in the ropes or else… Yes, some people will die from pushing the envelope too far. So f-ing what? It is a small percentage and the rest of us are far better off for having dared and lived! That’s what REAL humans do! I don’t know about you, but I am personally getting pretty sick of government fencing me in and trying to hold my hand… Why are organized humans so stupid?

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    • arizkid
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 1:31pm

      Lord have Mercy – you are my type of women

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  • elkslayer
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:48am

    In Tucson Az my dad headed for the wash when it rained. I floated on a log in a lake. Made a raft and floated on it. That was not safe! True, some people do die having fun. I can still recall the excitement of the moment on some of the things I did. And not so long a go. Life can be exciting if you make it that way. Adventure is what helped make this the country that it is

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  • szabla
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:30am

    I would not get on the water as they did, but that water doesn’t even look like a level 3. I have been on worse rapids in my canoe (with a life jacket) and other kayakers with me on the Colorado River. Let them have fun, you all sound like people who want a nanny state, and all to no take chances.

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  • huey6367
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:25am

    The last three wrods you will hear a redneck say – “Check this out”

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:33am

      I thought it was, “Hey, y’all, watch this!“ or ”Hold my beer…”

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    • Zipit
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:53am

      Any self respecting redneck would have one cracked open, and at least an extra sixer per man on hand!

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    • liv4jumpin
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 9:01am

      It’s pronounced, “Eyyyy, WAHTCHISSS!!” but may also be reworded for beverage safety, “Eyyy, hol’ ma Beeerrr… ann WAHTCHISSSS!!”

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 10:27am

      “Let‘s go surfin’ now, everybody‘s learnin’ how, come on a surfari with me…”

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:25am

    And thus we see the next champions for the Darwinian award of the year; they may soon succeed in eliminating themselves from the gene pool.

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  • grayling646
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:19am

    Glad to start my day with such a riveting news story. Thanks Blaze.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:09am

    If you ever ask yourself how America could be so stupid as to elect Obama, remember these three geniuses.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:23am

      I see guys like this, and just smile. I cannot count the dumb things I did in my younger years that did not kill or seriously injure me.

      When I was on the enlisted side and working as a squad leader at 3/75 Ranger, I got called into the Company Commander’s office on a Monday morning. I had no idea what for. I got a slight butt chewing, because some of my squad members got picked up by the MPs. In the dark of night, they were jumping off from Eddie Bridge into the Chattahoochee River (about sixty foot drop).

      I was not mad that they did it, I was mad because they got caught, and did not invite me to go along.

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    • Zipit
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:26am

      Ding! Another fine example of the type of behavior that prolonged drug use can produce!!! HEY! Is one of those guys WANGO?

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    • SREGN
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:49am

      What.

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    • SREGN
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:57am

      Although I didn’t vote for Obama, I have been as stupid as this. I went to the beach during a heavy northeast storm, walked out on the jetty, climbed the navigation aid tower at the end of the jetty and sat up top smoking a dubee and admiring the storm. When I climbed down the tide had come in and waves were washing completely over the jetty. I had to run, then jump down and anchor myself to a rock with my arms as the wave washed over me, and repeat the process about a dozen times to get to shore. When I did the Coast Guard was waiting for me with some unkind words.

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    • DrunkGOP_Hack
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:59am

      come on Gonzo, like you never did anything adventuresome in your youth.
      I did.
      I’m still alive, smart, have money, work, smart kids, family…

      Adventure is what makes us men.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 10:21am

      No, I never rafted on an air mattress in flood waters.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 11:11am

      Gonzo strikes me more as the sort that streaked across campus

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  • BryanB
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:00am

    “It has not been reported if a citation was issued for rafting on the potentially dangerous water.”

    If they want to be stupid and go rafting in “dangerous water”, thats their business. Just make sure they wrote their Social Security number on their arm, with Permanent Black Magic-Marker, so the authorities can identify the bodys.

    We got to thin the herd some how…………

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    • BryanB
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:16am

      *bodies

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 8:24am

      Darwin reaps his dues, for certain. I’ll consider it a wonder if the planetary population ever makes it to 8 billion, given how stupid modern society adherents are becoming.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 23, 2012 at 10:06am

      BryanB

      Real Rangers would use a zodiak boat, like they do during the boat movements down the Yellow River at Eglin Airforce Base (home of Florida phase of Ranger School). Then again, only one of us humped a rucksack through East Bay swamp and tore our shins up on the cypress stumps, or did the raid via zodiaks on Santa Rose Island (they no longer do that mission).

      Folks other than ByranB – this is an inside joke of sorts.

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  • joeslick
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 7:57am

    I wonder if they really said “Hold my beer and watch this” just before getting on that thing.

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  • woodyee
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 7:43am

    Darwin thwarted again!

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  • bikerdogred1
    Posted on August 23, 2012 at 7:40am

    Boys just want to have fun.

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