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Four months after helicopter debacle at Penn State tailgate, 4 students have been charged

Four months after a “massive” tailgate party outside of Beaver Stadium prompted Pennsylvania state police to use a low-flying helicopter to disperse the crowd, four Penn State students have been charged.

They face alcohol-related misdemeanors.

Two undercover Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement officers were monitoring the tailgate in a parking lot outside Beaver Stadium ahead of the Sept. 29 football game with Ohio State and purchased a $10 wristband to “attend the party.”

As students were using smelling salts to “bring you around” and shotgunning beers, Pennsylvania state police sent in a helicopter and a group of horses to disperse the crowd.