Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time 733
garymortimer writes "Photos provided by the animal rights group show the multicopter smoking on the ground, with its lithium polymer battery supply smoldering. Another photo shows the drone's video camera smashed. The drone, dubbed 'Angel,' was a Cinestar 8 octocopter estimated at $4,000. This wasn't the first time SHARK has been shot out of the sky. This is the fourth drone that the group has lost while investigating pigeon shootings. One drone landed on club property, and is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit."
wait... what? (Score:5, Funny)
They're using drones to investigate people that are good at shooting things that are flying in the air - seriously?
Re:What type of shot? Was it birdshot? (Score:5, Funny)
Were standard rounds shot into the sky?
What makes you think the shooters would need anything more than birdshot for a flying bit of ABS plastic, nylon, and a lithium battery and a couple of PCB boards? If you could hit it, a single BB or pellet from a decent-quality air rifle or a "wrist-rocket"-type slingshot could take one of those quad-rotor R/C models out.
If the hunters were smart, they'd get themselves a net-gun and capture these things mostly intact, then sell them on Ebay to finance more live pigeon shoots while loudly and publicly crediting this animal rights group for helping sponsor them.
Strat
Re:hunting? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:hunting? (Score:5, Funny)
I ate a chicken once.. Tastes like frog legs
Dropping the bass? MORE animal abuse? (Score:5, Funny)
>> your neighbors dropping the bass at 2am
Isn't that animal abuse too?
Re:You'd Think They'd Learn (Score:4, Funny)
Indeed. It kinda reminds me of this [glossynews.com].
Re:Over private property? (Score:4, Funny)
If the 747 is flying at 1000 feet, probably, and you can almost certainly sue them for something.
its America. Of course you can sue them for *something*
Re:You need to learn a bit more about firearms (Score:5, Funny)
It's a reporter. They don't know which end of the gun is the business end. Remember the press reported that the Aurora shooter used an "AK-47" when in fact it was an AR-15 variant.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/journalists_firearms_identification_guide/ [outsidethebeltway.com]
That chart is not too far off.
Re:Over private property? (Score:3, Funny)
What if you miss? What's downrange? (a window and a child?)
For suburban deer overpopulation's I'd say spotlights and machetes would be kind of sporting. Can you imagine the reaction of the Bambi morons?