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Posted: 3/26/2015 10:24:17 PM EDT
A man operating his high-tech, remote-controlled quadcopter -- more commonly known as a drone -- caused a stir among residents of one Eagle River neighborhood earlier this week. Anchorage police were called to the area Tuesday after residents complained that a drone was following children home from a nearby school, but officers found no laws had been broken. "I said, 'Did you see the drone?' and he said, 'Oh, yeah, he has been out for a few days and he comes home with us from school, and follows kids to their houses,' " Bailey-Ruiz said. "And that’s when I called Anchorage police." |
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Again, fpni
My first thought reading the title, I haven't shot my shotgun in a while. |
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Might be perfectly legal. Don't care.
Dude would end up tied to a tree 50 miles from the nearest town, and covered in Molasses. |
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Accidental 12ga discharge. Yup! http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--1DJJCQ8C--/abjfpbvbirw8pyaso6ly.gif LOL!!!!! I'm saving that gif. |
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This is what a lot of guys are starting to move to from standard quads. Mini FPV Shredding. Lots of power in a mini quad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABPoON_k2xY |
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In before those who will defend this as vociferously as the guy standing naked in his door way every time children pass by.
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Do they make a drone that looks like a flying monkey? close enough? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB8D2QZ9lA4 This ones pretty cool for the kiddies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6alPtfw8C84 |
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I like the idea of a mid air collision with an RC plane or jamming his signal.
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Do they make a drone that looks like a flying monkey? View Quote No flying monkeys...but there is a flying cat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfM23iChzs |
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Nah, full-contact combat is more fun, and all you have to do is manage to break one of it's rotors to knock it down. A Bluecor (FFF) flying wing should do fine. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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So build an RC P-51 with BB guns and shoot it down. Nah, full-contact combat is more fun, and all you have to do is manage to break one of it's rotors to knock it down. A Bluecor (FFF) flying wing should do fine. This. All you need to do is fly your own drone/copter/what have you over top of his while dangling a few foot length of fishing line or twine. It'll get plucked right off your craft and wind up tight in his rotors. Let it fall and wreck itself. I've got a few helis sitting next to me on the shelf that I could pull this off within a matter of minutes. |
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Anchorage police were called to the area Tuesday after residents complained that a drone was following children home from a nearby school, but officers found no laws had been broken. View Quote ZFG |
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Quoted: quad/hex copter with a camera is a drone View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: So we are still calling them drones |
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no an autonomous vehicle that moves under its own computer/gps is a drone. But lets all be hysterical emotional and make up whatever we want to call things. Please obama regulate this into safety. fucking hypocrites. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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So we are still calling them drones Next you'll be spouting some outdated definition for "assault rifle". |
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This. All you need to do is fly your own drone/copter/what have you over top of his while dangling a few foot length of fishing line or twine. It'll get plucked right off your craft and wind up tight in his rotors. Let it fall and wreck itself. I've got a few helis sitting next to me on the shelf that I could pull this off within a matter of minutes. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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So build an RC P-51 with BB guns and shoot it down. Nah, full-contact combat is more fun, and all you have to do is manage to break one of it's rotors to knock it down. A Bluecor (FFF) flying wing should do fine. This. All you need to do is fly your own drone/copter/what have you over top of his while dangling a few foot length of fishing line or twine. It'll get plucked right off your craft and wind up tight in his rotors. Let it fall and wreck itself. I've got a few helis sitting next to me on the shelf that I could pull this off within a matter of minutes. That would show planning and intent. Midair collisions happen. They are usually accidents, though involvement of a Bluecor flying wing increases the odds that it wasn't an accident. When you can build one and only have a couple bucks in the airframe (before adding radio, servos, battery, etc)... And they make a quite satisfying thwack, when they hit something. |
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quad/hex copter with a camera is a drone View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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So we are still calling them drones Like an AR-15 is a machine gun/assault rifle/ military rifle blah blah blah. It's a RC helicopter/quadcopter |
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kinda wonder if incidents like this... will be used to fuel the government's agenda to regulate these devices.
i'm not saying this is a false flag of course but... they do like making use of any incident they can to justify more regulations (and tax stamps probably) |
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Quoted: Too late. Already stuck in the public conscience. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: So we are still calling them drones Too late. Already stuck in the public conscience. Used to be targets or aircraft that flew their entire mission without human input and were recovered later. We might as well just work to "prettify" the word instead of trying to convince people to use UAS or something like that. ETA: And the hotshots shooting into the air at "them drones"... over kids.... get over yourselves Every time I hear someone suggest that I'm reminded of the idiots regurgitating filing down firing pins, racking shotgun slides and carrying Taurus Judges. No thought at all, just spewing what the other tards say. |
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Always wondered what an airsoftgun or paintball gun tuned up to 400fps would do to one of them.
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kinda wonder if incidents like this... will be used to fuel the government's agenda to regulate these devices. i'm not saying this is a false flag of course but... they do like making use of any incident they can to justify more regulations (and tax stamps probably) View Quote The news media loves hysteria, because it gets people listening to them. Once people are listening, they can be told what new laws to demand. Motive can be the evil control freaks, or the clueless "make a difference" morons (both seem to be easy to find, in the news media). Either way, we are still fucked. |
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no expectation of privacy in public places, why you no like freedom?
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Being a creep ain't illegal. View Quote It sure is a huge red flag for those with children though. Note he isn't just some guy flying his toy around. He's specifically using it to FOLLOW CHILDREN HOME. If his thought processes view that as acceptable, then he is fucked in the head. Illegal or not, he's fucked up. |
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It sure is a huge red flag for those with children though. Note he isn't just some guy flying his toy around. He's specifically using it to FOLLOW CHILDREN HOME. If his thought processes view that as acceptable, then he is fucked in the head. Illegal or not, he's fucked up. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Being a creep ain't illegal. It sure is a huge red flag for those with children though. Note he isn't just some guy flying his toy around. He's specifically using it to FOLLOW CHILDREN HOME. If his thought processes view that as acceptable, then he is fucked in the head. Illegal or not, he's fucked up. yep. drones in his area should be regarded as targets of opportunity |
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He's doing the kids a favor by teaching them what life will be like when they are grown up.
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yep. drones in his area should be regarded as targets of opportunity View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Being a creep ain't illegal. It sure is a huge red flag for those with children though. Note he isn't just some guy flying his toy around. He's specifically using it to FOLLOW CHILDREN HOME. If his thought processes view that as acceptable, then he is fucked in the head. Illegal or not, he's fucked up. yep. drones in his area should be regarded as targets of opportunity What's the scoop on someone peeping in windows or harassing you on your own property with one? Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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It sure is a huge red flag for those with children though. Note he isn't just some guy flying his toy around. He's specifically using it to FOLLOW CHILDREN HOME. If his thought processes view that as acceptable, then he is fucked in the head. Illegal or not, he's fucked up. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Being a creep ain't illegal. It sure is a huge red flag for those with children though. Note he isn't just some guy flying his toy around. He's specifically using it to FOLLOW CHILDREN HOME. If his thought processes view that as acceptable, then he is fucked in the head. Illegal or not, he's fucked up. He denied those accusations. I think this is just like when someone sees a gun; it provides a rich opportunity for exaggeration. |
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If he is watching for their safety, then I am ok with it just like I am ok with the dad escorting his kids from the bus stop with that AR.
If it deters predators then, you know, its cool. These things have existed for decades, I flew nitro copters when I was a kid 40 years ago. The difference is that these probably have cameras, probably realtime video. The real issue is privacy and liability. But it's in public. So that leaves liability. There should be some way to ID who owns or is piloting the things. Like a transponder. So when it falls out of the sky and puts some ones eye out, we know who to tie to that tree. Also it's not cool to scare kids. But there are laws already. You guys may think you are ok beating your meat in your third story bedroom with your window open, but it is an illusion and always has been. That perv three miles away with his telescope sees you just fine. |
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He denied those accusations. I think this is just like when someone sees a gun; it provides a rich opportunity for exaggeration. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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. He denied those accusations. I think this is just like when someone sees a gun; it provides a rich opportunity for exaggeration. Yeah, some denial-- He also told Alaska Dispatch News that he would no longer fly his drone while children were walking home from school. |
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Seems like the controllers for the these things would be really easy to detect and locate.
Anyone in the electronics biz? There may be a market here.... |
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I womder if drone-boy realizes that if any of those kids disappear, someone will likely assume he did it and try to beat the truth out of him.
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