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One more step and this 10-year-old's story would be different. A laptop fell from a helicopter and landed inches away from him
The boy was spending some time at a family cookout Saturday night when a medical helicopter was leaving St. Cloud Hospital. Somehow the crew left its laptop computer on the helicopter's skid.
"It fell about here and I was standing right here," said 10-year-old Grayson Peterka.
Grayson has pictures to back up his story about how a laptop fell from a medical helicopter and landed within inches of hitting him.
"I heard the helicopter going by. It was pretty low and then they made like a turn. When that happened it fell to the ground," he said.
Grayson said the computer made a loud sound when it hit the ground, almost like a gunshot. The 10-year-old's aunt was nearby when she heard the same noise.
"'What's that?' It was really loud and not more than two seconds later my little nephew comes around the corner and says 'Auntie Laura, something just fell out of the sky and it almost hit me,'" said Laura Colon.
Colon said she went to take a look and couldn't believe her eyes.
"We came around the side of the garage here and we found a laptop and it was most definitely something that fell. It was busted up pretty good. I looked on the back and I saw Life Link and I said 'No way, that doesn't happen,'" said Colon.
The computer fell in the alley behind Colon's home. It sits three blocks and across the Mississippi River from St. Cloud Hospital.
Hospital officials said Life Link III had just landed with a patient and was leaving the helipad when the crew's computer was left on the helicopter's skid.
Colon called the hospital and within minutes a security guard was at her door.
"They came over with the flight nurse and they were very apologetic," said Colon.
Although the crew retrieved the computer, pieces of it still remain in the alley. Grayson's father said it's a sober reminder of what could have happened.
"At first you think its kind of humorous and then you think about it for a little bit and you go 'Wow, he could have really got hurt,'" said Mike Peterka.
Grayson was not hurt and he remembers the incident with a smile. He says he can't wait to show pictures to his friends at school on Monday.
Grayson's family said they know how important the work Life Link crews do and they know leaving the computer on the helicopter's skid was an honest mistake. The family is glad no one was hurt.
St. Cloud Hospital is investigating the incident. Grayson's family was told to expect a call from the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA will also be looking into what happened
lmao at the pic
