“The Iowa State Fair won’t allow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to give kids free rides on his helicopter on fairgrounds, but the real estate developer has secured a nearby location. The helicopter will take off from a parking lot outside the fair.”

For the crew of Air-1, the Winnipeg Police department’s helicopter, Monday night was spent like any other: flying around scenic Winnipeg, having a fun “convo about blowjobs,” maybe throwing in “some swears and some references to money,” and discussing what exactly is “too much body hair.” The only thing out of place was the audience; someone had accidentally turned on the helicopter’s public address system and the crew of Air-1 was live to the entire West End. And, according to Winnipeg residents on Twitter, some of the North End, too:

Around 8 p.m. last night, three inmates at the Orsainville Detention Centre outside of Quebec City fled the jail as they were whisked away by a green helicopter that had touched down on the property. This counts as the second time this kind of escape has happened in Canada in only two years.

They've shoved health care down your throat, and they've tried to take your cows' freedom of movement away. What will Hussein Obummer and his commissars do next? He'll seize your state's attack choppers and leave you at the mercy of martial law, that's what. Wake up, sheeple!

A police helicopter crashed into a crowded pub in Glasgow late Friday night, killing everyone on board as well as five people inside the establishment. Fourteen other people remain hospitalized with serious injuries.

Leave it to Canada to do something nice with drones.

Taking their cues from direct-to-DVD action movies, two inmates broke out of a Quebec prison today by climbing a rope to a hijacked helicopter hovering above the jail's yard. Quebec provincial police later arrested three people 30 miles from St. Jerome prison, including one of the inmates, 36-year-old Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau. The other escaped inmate, 33-year-old Danny Provencal, is currently "surrounded," according to police.

A convicted murderer with the best bros in the world is back behind bars after making a daring escape from a high-security Russian prison earlier today.

A special message for you Christmas celebrators: This year, when using your helicopter to set up and decorate your tree, try not to fly close to any structures. Otherwise, your propellers might get caught and cause you to have a crash in which you die. That would ruin Christmas!

Mexican Secretary of the Interior Francisco Blake Mora was among eight officials killed in a helicopter crash on the way to a meeting. The crash appears to be weather related, though some are speculating about foul play.

A helicopter has crashed in the East River. Three people are reportedly trapped and NYPD rescuers are in the water.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will reimburse the state $1,232.30 for a recent police helicopter ride to his kid's baseball game and $919.20 for another trip tomorrow. Finally, justice has been brought to New Jersey.

Jon Gustafsson, the Icelandic photographer who had some of the best footage of last year's Eyjafjallajokull eruption, has some breathtaking video of currently-erupting volcano Grímsvötn taken from a helicopter. Check out that lightning! Whoever is in charge of volcano weather is doing a great job. [via Bad Astronomy/Discover]

Tampa police helicopter pilot Dave Dennison has been suspended after he used a police chopper to drop off a fishing net at a friend's house. But who knows how many crimes that friend might have committed if he wasn't fishing!

Last week, we showed you a pair of stranded deer who were blown to safety by a helicopter. Now, another rescued-by-helicopter video—this time starring a calf who was stranded on a frozen Oklahoma pond. The harrowing footage, inside.

Apparently, a sleigh driven by reindeer doesn't quite cut it in 2010, so this Santa's made an upgrade. To a freaking helicopter. Watch him rappel down from it, with help from an elf, and distribute presents to some amazed children.

Prince William performed his first mission as a Royal Air Force search and rescue helicopter pilot today, airlifting a man having a heart attack from a gas rig off the northern coast of England. What, there was no shining armor?

The We We Live Now: Better than we used to. Assuming "we" are farmers in India. And we are, because the only industries left here in the USA are life insurance, and robbing life insurance agents.

Remember how the New York Times' uncomfortable interview with Caroline Kennedy pretty much sank her Senate campaign? Hello, Harold Ford, welcome to New York! First question: Jets or Giants?

Those low-flying helicopters that have been hovering over Manhattan today? They could be connected to a movie shoot last week that involved helicopters. But they could also be up to something else. Either way, though, the NYPD would like you to know they they're totally cool with it and it's all above board, so don't freak out and call 911, 311 or whatever hotline you're technically supposed to call in cases of mysterious, low-flying helicopters. [NYT]