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Sometimes You Can Just Tweet At That Noisy Chopper To Fly Away

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Ben Yakas

Published Aug 17, 2013

Modified Aug 17, 2013

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The Tweet that helped Brophy figure out who was in the chopper

 

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Published Aug 17, 2013

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