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CaptUSA
06-19-2014, 06:18 PM
Oh, well now, this can't be good.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/19/excruciating-pain-from-above-drones-get


It was inevitable. Now it's happening. Desert Wolf, a company in South Africa, has created a drone capable of shooting pepper spray and "blinding lasers" at unruly crowds. The company has sold 25 of the drones to a mining company after showing them off at a trade show, the BBC reports. They offer more details of the drones' weaponry:

http://cloudfront-media.reason.com/mc/_external/2014_06/this-is-why-people-will-be-sus.jpg?h=223&w=300


(p.s. If you're business model requires these for your employees, you may want to reconsider the model.)

Anti Federalist
06-19-2014, 06:20 PM
Oh, well now, this can't be good.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/19/excruciating-pain-from-above-drones-get

(p.s. If you're business model requires these for your employees, you may want to reconsider the model.)

LOL...Joy.

There are plenty of people here that say you would be well within your rights to drone, blind and pepper spray your employees at whim...

DamianTV
06-19-2014, 06:22 PM
Lets just call Drones for what they really are: "Non Lethal" Terminators.

JK/SEA
06-19-2014, 06:33 PM
i use to make my own slingshots as a young lad. I'd shoot rocks at cans and bottles. Got pretty good at, but that was a long time ago. Just takes practice. Sorry for the derail.

CaptUSA
06-19-2014, 06:59 PM
Imagine trying to shoot these things down as they come hovering over your town... Oh, but you know... We'll only use them on the bad people.

Dr.3D
06-19-2014, 07:21 PM
Ever go skeet shooting?

CaptUSA
06-19-2014, 07:28 PM
Ever go skeet shooting?

Never through buildings.

See, I get the picture they'll be bringing a whole lot of these things. They pay all kinds of money to have officers there. Officers that could get hurt. They'd justify it.

Then, a dog barks too loud or someone sneezes and you have dozens of these things on you in seconds.

Root
06-19-2014, 07:29 PM
Lets just call Drones for what they really are: "Non Lethal" Terminators.
For now... Until some asshat puts AI and bullets into one.

only a matter if time now...

tod evans
06-19-2014, 08:47 PM
Just think of all the children they can serve-n-protect!

phill4paul
06-19-2014, 09:23 PM
It's all good....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU

And they had tails like unto scorpions.........

“If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and 50 dollars in cash I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.” Rand Paul

Dr.3D
06-19-2014, 09:52 PM
Just think of all the children they can serve-n-protect!

Hummm.... "Serve-n-Protect", sounds like a good name for an oven bag.

Natural Citizen
06-19-2014, 10:42 PM
A bit more thorough reporting on it here - Riot control drone armed with paintballs and pepper spray hits market (http://rt.com/news/167168-riot-control-pepper-spray-drone/)


The paintballs can be used to “mark” people in the crowd. “The operator has full control over each marker. He can select the RED paint marker and mark the protester who carries dangerous weapons, he can select the BLUE marker to mark the vandalising protestors,” the Desert Wolf website (http://www.desert-wolf.com/dw/products/unmanned-aerial-systems/skunk-riot-control-copter.html) said.

The Skunk Copter can also employ strobe lights, “blinding lasers” and on-board speakers to send verbal warnings to a crowd, though New Zealand’s 3News notes that the Geneva Convention prohibits the use of loudspeakers and laser pointers in combat. The UAS also uses a thermal camera with night-vision capabilities and two full-HD video cameras to record events as they unfold. The eight powerful electric motors with 16-inch propellers allow the drone to lift up to 45 kilograms (99 pounds).

The UAS also uses a thermal camera with night-vision capabilities and two full-HD video cameras to record events as they unfold. The eight powerful electric motors with 16-inch propellers allow the drone to lift up to 45 kilograms (99 pounds).

“Our aim is to assist in preventing another Marikana, we were there and it should never happen again,” the Desert Wolf website said. Marikana (http://rt.com/news/south-africa-mining-protest-702/) was a wildcat miners’ strike at a South African platinum mine in 2012, where 44 people were killed in the violent protests. According to autopsy reports, many of the deaths occurred when strikers were fleeing police (http://rt.com/news/south-africa-marikana-police-autopsies-strikes-693/).

The International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) campaign group is also speaking out against the use of the Shark Copter and similar technology, such as the CUPID drone (http://rt.com/usa/drone-taser-gun-security-650/) that employs an 80,000-volt taser dart.

Noel Sharkey, chair of the ICRAC, told the BBC he is concerned that the deployment of such drones risks "creeping authoritarianism and the suppression of protest."

phill4paul
06-19-2014, 10:44 PM
A bit more thorough reporting on it here - Riot control drone armed with paintballs and pepper spray hits market (http://rt.com/news/167168-riot-control-pepper-spray-drone/)

“If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and 50 dollars in cash I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.” Rand Paul