Last flight quarters of the night. Yaaay I won't have to sleep on the couch in the berthing I can actually spend some quality time with my rack. I talk to the Det about the droop stops popping out during shut down. As the main rotor decreases is speed the droop stop go in. This prevents the blade from striking the tail as the rotor comes to a stop and centrifical force no longer holds them erect. He told me that the springs are starting to go bad. I asked him if it weren't a bad thing for the above mentioned reason. He answered that that was the reason the they hoped that if the blade hit anything it was the people in front of the helo. I commented that that may be a bad thing also. I referenced a chief that went into the rotor arc before getting permission from the LSE, just walked right in. The computer that keeps the cyclic stick in the up position went off line momentarily causing the stick to move forward. This caused the rotor also the move forward, causing the blades to droop to 4 ft off the deck. One of the blades struck the Chief, I would say that it bashed his head in but there wasn't much to called a head by the time the chief hit the ground. The blade it self had a big chunk taken out of it and this is what I referenced. The Det'r commented that the blade had struck him 3 time before he fell, darn chief just didn't know when to die. It occured to me that when one voluntarily subjects themselves to dangerous enviroment they tend deal with it by adjusting they're humor to the grotesque. We make fun things that should scare us. Getting ones head shortened by a rotor blade, falling out or a boat as it is being lower over the side or raised up to the rail.