72-year-old Florida man arrested after admitting he shot a Walmart delivery drone
72-year-old Florida man arrested after admitting he shot a Walmart delivery drone
The Lake County Sheriff's Office said drone delivery representatives reported the incident. A two-man crew was campaigning in a nearby community, writes Fox 35 Orlando, which included...
72 years old and one shots a drone with a 9mm.
As dumb and dangerous as that is, I'm pretty impressed. That's a hell of a (lucky?) shot.
My grandfather could shoot like that past 80, but he was a competitive shooter in the Navy and in civilian life. It takes skill to pop a moving target with any handgun.
The time has come
We must defend Florida Man
Good aim! The privacy concern with these things is real. The full opportunity is now there to have these fly up to your window and look into your house. Hard pass on drone deliveries.
Drones can also carry weapons, biohazards, waste, endless possibilities of exploitation, imho.How is this different from a delivery person looking in your window when they drop off something to your house? Can a delivery person also just as easily "carry weapons, biohazards, waste"? Why would a drone want to carry those things? Why would Walmart want a drone to carry those things and cause harm, as you seem to be implying here, to their customers? A drone company can be regulated and audited to make sure privacy laws are being followed.
Will an infraction occur with a drone? Probably. And then people will have grounds to sue and laws will be built to protect people and their privacy (I hope!).
Drone delivery is coming - how do you want to see this tech being used responsibly?
I don’t see it. We are now in crazyland times where the rule of law somehow doesn’t seem to apply any longer. Read the news headlines if in doubt.
And how do I know this drone above my house is legit? Do i get airspace traffic control over my house? If someone is flying a drone near my roof it's going to explode for sure.
There's plenty of great applications, but it needs to be heavily regulated to not be a privacy nightmare.
Maybe also give certified drones a specific bright colour that privately owned ones can't have so you know it's not some creep or creepy advertising company operating it.
Because it's much better to deliver like this than have the city clogged up and polluted by cars delivering a tiny bag of food. Even more important, medications that are needed urgently or just for someone that's too sick or elderly or disabled to comfortably pick it up themselves.
They physically can, but spying on you via drone in someplace you have a reasonable expectation of privacy (I.e. your house, not the sidewalk or public space) is already illegal.
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An RC plane could do the same. How often in history did someone drop a bio weapon with an RC plane?
How many times have multiple billion-dollar businesses had a fleet of RC planes at their disposal?
We're all in uncharted waters here. And if the people responsible for ensuring an environmental disaster doesn't strike after a train derails can't be trusted to protect the environment or accurately disclose shipments, I don't have faith the #1 food stamps employer is going to be much more scrupulous with their transportation safety.
You ever try to fly an RC plane?
Let alone one with enough payload to do anything?
How about an RC helicopter, which is a better comparison. They're a real bitch, way harder than RC planes.
The RC world has been somewhat exclusive for a long time - these things weren't cheap, and not easy to fly.
Any idiot today can fly a drone and hover where they want - just direct it where you want to go, with a camera on board. Just look at the number of drones in the last 10 years - I frequently hear them around the city, while I've never seen an RC plane flying around the city.
You don’t shoot at things in public, you don’t shoot into the air near populated/occupied areas, and you don’t shoot at things that don’t belong to you or you aren’t licensed to shoot at. Clearly the thing wasn’t anywhere near his property, so he’ll probably get off light considering how reckless and irresponsible this was.
You sure about that "getting off light" part? The article says he was charged with a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Shooting at a drone has the same classification as shooting at a passenger plane. He's been charged with a felony, up to 20 years in prison. As it should be. We don't need fucking idiots shooting into the sky in residential areas, regardless of what they think they're shooting at.
If he got caught, the drone was probably really spying on him
I mean it's not like it would be hard to figure out where it got shot from if you know its last known position and rotation
You could read the article...
He doesn't even need a lawyer. As long as he gets a jury trial he could plead his own case and get acquited. No one wants these things hovering over their property.