Helicopter pilot drops in on birthday party and stirs up more than he bargained for

And that was after many months of back and forth with county officials, who initially told him it wasn’t possible to keep it on his 3.5-acre property. “You can’t tell me ‘no.’ You can tell me ‘how,’ ” Baranes, an Israeli immigrant, said. “This is the land of the free. This is why I left Israel, because I believe in the Constitution.”