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enhanced_deficit
08-26-2013, 02:32 AM
Drone crashes into Virginia bull run crowd (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/drone-crashes-into-virginia-bull-run-crowd/2013/08/26/424e0b9e-0e00-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html)

Washington Post
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 12:10 AM ET
An aerial drone, a pilotless aircraft of the type that has aroused intense public discussion in recent months, crashed Saturday into the stands at a public event in Virginia that has also aroused heated discourse.
A drone crashed into the grandstand at Virginia Motorsports Park during the Great Bull Run, said Major W.B. Knott, of the Dinwiddie County sheriff’s office, reporting what might be described as the dramatic encounter between a controversial piece of hardware and a controversial spectacle.
Knott said he was told that four or five people suffered very minor injuries. They were treated by EMS personnel at the event, and none was taken to a hospital, Knott said.
The bull run was billed as a daylong festival featuring bands, drinking, games and a tomato fight. The highlight was to be four scheduled bull runs in which participants were to try to elude or outrace 24 hefty specimens of male livestock.
Animal rights organizations have contended that the event endangered both people and bovines.

Neil Desmond
08-26-2013, 02:40 AM
There's a place very near where I live, and much closer to where I work, called Bull Run & for a moment I thought that's what it meant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Run,_Virginia

cjm
08-26-2013, 06:12 AM
There's a place very near where I live, and much closer to where I work, called Bull Run & for a moment I thought that's what it meant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Run,_Virginia

I thought the same thing and was wondering why "bull run" wasn't capitalized in the title.

ETA: comments on article are disappointing...


What's next for a bunch of able-bodied guys with obviously too much time and money on their hands. I'd suggest we reinstitute the draft so the same few citizens don't have to spend their entire lives protecting our country...


I've always found this type of event amazingly stupid. A lot of folk should lose their health insurance, especially those capture on camera.

Anti Federalist
08-26-2013, 06:22 AM
Who's drone?

Origanalist
08-26-2013, 06:24 AM
Who's drone?

It belonged to the local news station.


A Richmond area television station, WTVR-Channel 6, said the drone was being used to capture video of the event.

Anti Federalist
08-26-2013, 06:26 AM
It belonged to the local news station.

Roger, thanks.

CaptUSA
08-26-2013, 06:27 AM
Who's drone?Do you mean, "Whose"? :p

fisharmor
08-26-2013, 07:04 AM
Yeah, I gotta say I'm on the side of the drones in this case.
A non-state entity was running it for the express purpose of doing its stated job more efficiently.
10 years ago the news agency would have had to put up a chopper. Much more expensive, much more disruptive to the event, and if you think a drone crashing into a stadium is bad, imagine if it was a helicopter.

Origanalist
08-26-2013, 07:19 AM
Yeah, I gotta say I'm on the side of the drones in this case.
A non-state entity was running it for the express purpose of doing its stated job more efficiently.
10 years ago the news agency would have had to put up a chopper. Much more expensive, much more disruptive to the event, and if you think a drone crashing into a stadium is bad, imagine if it was a helicopter.

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRr06qIPMNp1opnL2y1hnoNhLuWBOjsB Vp0XckyDdDAjPCBJXftUAPglgcu

http://media.salon.com/2012/05/drone1-460x307.jpg

PaulConventionWV
08-26-2013, 08:02 AM
Drone crashes into Virginia bull run crowd (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/drone-crashes-into-virginia-bull-run-crowd/2013/08/26/424e0b9e-0e00-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html)

Washington Post
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 12:10 AM ET
An aerial drone, a pilotless aircraft of the type that has aroused intense public discussion in recent months, crashed Saturday into the stands at a public event in Virginia that has also aroused heated discourse.
A drone crashed into the grandstand at Virginia Motorsports Park during the Great Bull Run, said Major W.B. Knott, of the Dinwiddie County sheriff’s office, reporting what might be described as the dramatic encounter between a controversial piece of hardware and a controversial spectacle.
Knott said he was told that four or five people suffered very minor injuries. They were treated by EMS personnel at the event, and none was taken to a hospital, Knott said.
The bull run was billed as a daylong festival featuring bands, drinking, games and a tomato fight. The highlight was to be four scheduled bull runs in which participants were to try to elude or outrace 24 hefty specimens of male livestock.
Animal rights organizations have contended that the event endangered both people and bovines.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKL6iUFSQQ

PaulConventionWV
08-26-2013, 08:03 AM
Who's drone?

Whose drone?

GunnyFreedom
08-26-2013, 08:15 AM
Well, at least it wasn't one of these...

1982

yet...

FindLiberty
08-26-2013, 01:42 PM
From the FPS PC game HalfLife2:
"We have confirmed reports of Manhacks! Repeat, they are filling the underground with Manhacks!" ―Resistance (http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Resistance) member[src] (http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Half-Life_2)
The Manhack, referred to as Viscerator by the Overwatch Voice (http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Overwatch_Voice) and simply Hack by Citizens (http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Citizen) and Rebels (http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Rebel), is a flying, gyroscopic device with three razor-sharp blades that constantly spin at extremely high speeds. They are able to cause severe damage to anything they collide with.
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090527003320/half-life/en/images/thumb/4/4b/Manhack.jpg/564px-Manhack.jpg

LibertyEagle
08-26-2013, 02:06 PM
It belonged to the local news station.

I can't wait for the lawsuits to start, as they should.

Acala
08-26-2013, 02:23 PM
I would never suggest that anyone ever do anything illegal. And it would be really wrong if someone were to use a quadrotor equipped with spray paint to disable surveillance cameras. Wrong, I tell you.

RickyJ
08-26-2013, 02:30 PM
Whose drone?
You and everyone else here knows what he meant.