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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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Accidental 12ga discharge.
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I went to kindergarten there.
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Yup!
Link Posted: 3/26/2015 11:56:26 PM EDT
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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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Yup 12 guage
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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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Dude would end up tied to a tree 50 miles from the nearest town, and covered in Molasses.



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Yeah right.


But shooting it down is an idea I would entertain if being harrased by an rc camera
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LOL!!!!! I'm saving that gif.
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Conveniently, that would make him bear bait....
Link Posted: 3/27/2015 12:03:32 AM EDT
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So we are still calling them drones
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quad/hex copter with a camera is a drone

 
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Too late.  Already stuck in the public conscience.
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FPNI
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So build an RC P-51 with BB guns and shoot it down.
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Do they make a drone that looks like a flying monkey?
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Quads, FPV racers, Drones, Multirotors, Quadcopters, Bird, Hexacopters. That's the lingo people call them so take your pick.





 
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close enough?


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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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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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"vociferously" thas a pretty big woid.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.


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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ZFG
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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.



 
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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.
 


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.
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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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Like an AR-15 is a machine gun/assault rifle/ military rifle blah blah blah. It's a RC helicopter/quadcopter
Link Posted: 3/27/2015 7:05:23 AM EDT
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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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So we are still calling them drones

Too late.  Already stuck in the public conscience.
Yep
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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Ban RC for the children.

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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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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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They go down....... like a brick.
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I have a Remington 10 gauge for just this sort of occasion. it eagerly awaits its call to duty from the safe.
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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.
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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.  
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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.  


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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I'm like a government installation man. I don't like my picture taken.



 
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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.  


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?

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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.  
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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.  


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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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....

Link Posted: 3/27/2015 12:20:38 PM EDT
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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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