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Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group
Required Snark writes "A remote control drone operated by an animal rights group was shot down in South Carolina by a group of thwarted hunters. Steve Hindi, the group president said 'his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter drone to video what he called a live pigeon shoot on Sunday when law enforcement officers and an attorney claiming to represent the privately-owned plantation near Ehrhardt tried to stop the aircraft from flying.' After the shoot was halted, the drone was launched anyway, and at this point it was shot down. 'Seconds after it hit the air, numerous shots rang out,' Hindi said in the release. 'As an act of revenge for us shutting down the pigeon slaughter, they had shot down our copter.' 'It is important to note how dangerous this was, as they were shooting toward and into a well-travelled highway,' Hindi stated in the release."
I am Not an Animal!
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
And if I dress like a hawk and eat the pigeon sitting on a tree?
After all, it flies, so it must be a bird...
Then the animal protection group is the least of your worries.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
bird shot fired from a shot gun - upwards - is harmless. It comes down softly. The only way to hurt someone is to shoot them directly and they would still need to be within a few meters. There are other types of shotgun ammunition that can do a lot more harm but the shot for dove, pigeon, etc. is very small and light.
This, of course, is known as the Dick Cheney Unprinciple.
(Smirk)
I think its a valid analogy.
In that case, they shouldn't have shot the drone... they should have beaten the drones father for failing to teach it proper behavior.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
why couldn't a bullet hit one of the animal huggers?
Do you have any idea how bad hippie tastes?
I assume there are no civil flights, police helicopters, air ambulances, kites...
not anymore
And if women didn't walk around dressed like sluts, they wouldn't get raped.
That's true, but how does this relate to the conversation?
There were women there walking around dressed like pigeons.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
In fact the redneck "I shoot trespassers" is illegal
I thought you had Castle Doctrine in most of your states..?
As for here in the UK, you get thrown in jail if you don't offer the burglar a cup of tea after he tires of murdering your children.
Then let me know next time you have sex and I'll come over with my video camera.
Look, all he was talking about was the drunken, potentially lower-class, most-likely-wife-beating louts at this event, is all! I'm certain that after they're done with their busy day of raping schoolchildren in the alley, stealing booze from cityfolk tourists at gunpoint, and urinating on the corpses of the people they "accidentally" shot with their murder devices, they're perfectly upstanding citizens! You should stop reading too much into this so-called "bias"!