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Man shoots downs neighbor’s hexacopter in rural drone shotgun battle
While we’ve heard of consumer drones getting in the way of commercial airliners, and more recently, obstructing firefighting operations, we’ve haven’t heard of many cases where drones are shot out of the sky by a neighbor. Eric Joe, told Ars he was flying his homemade drone over his parents’ orchard late last year. After just three-and-a-half minutes of flight time, a single shotgun blast rang out from the neighbor’s property at the low-flying, slow-moving hexacopter. The drone came crashing… (arstechnica.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The guy with the shotgun used a firearm in an unsafe and unjustified manor.... If it had been a CIA Surveillance Drone he would be in a lot more hot water right now than he already is... The man discharged a fire arm knowing there were people living in that direction... He should be held accountable for his immature actions.
If it had been CIA, we wouldn't have heard about it at all & shooter would be in prison.
, renditioned, or just disappeared.
Probably disappeared, to Guantanamo, is it really closed??
If the government says it's closed, then it's . . . .
A quick google of the shooter turned up a couple of interesting tidbits...
Please share
Google "brett mcbay". There was a link in the story which lead to his campaign website.
By looking at this guys history, he is a real idiot...