Posted on 04/22/2015 11:48:39 AM PDT by JoeProBono
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WPVI) -- Need a new way to keep tabs on your child?
A father in Tennessee may have the answer.
Chris Early uses an eye in the sky to watch his eight-year-old daughter.
Early, from Knoxville, is a techie and he loves to play with his new drone.
He owns a production company and loves to see what new things he can do with it.
A few weeks ago he used it to when his daughter Katie asked to walk to school on her own.
As she was walking out of the door, the father got out his new toy and took video of her during her morning stroll.
"I could see on the monitor that a lot of the kids were looking and pointing", said Chris Early. "And I'm sure Katie was just like, 'It's my dad.'"
Believe it or not, Katie said she's cool with her dad checking up on her.
While some say he's being overprotective, Chris says it was just for fun. He's just happy knowing she's safe.
It might be a different story when she becomes a teenager.
Brings an entirely new meaning to ‘helicopter parent’.
Mount a couple of guns on it and have it hover at about 10 feet over her head.
She’d be better protected if it was armed.
Taking “helicopter parenting” to the extreme! Good for him! Too bad it wasn’t equipped with a Hellfire to take out any molesters.
My solution to this problem is simple: We homeschool.
Does it have a gatling gun and air to ground missiles to blow away peedos and bullies?
What is the distance on those? I thought you could only control them for like a quarter mile or so.
Cool toy, I mean tool.
Homeschooling also gives you great choice in where you can live and still get your children a quality education.
If he’s got time to mess with a drone, then walk her to school. Sing a song, tell a joke, make a memory. Geez.
Quadcopter parent.
Yeah,,, cause molesters run wild in the streets. Chances are you cant go three blocks without bumping into a few. That’s what todays hit TV shows tell me./
Yup! unless this thing comes with hellfires what good is it!
The daughter asked her dad if she could walk to school by herself. I don’t think it was the dad blowing off his little girl.
And I used to complain that my dad droned on and on and on
that’s the “dating age” upgrade
her first date is going to be interesting....
Thank you for referencing that article JoeProBono. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
I appreciate that the techie dad is pioneering beneficial uses of drones.
Surprisingly, this thread turned into a 17th Amendment-related issue when the news lady mention that the dad is waiting for FAA approval on unspecified issues concerning the drone. The problem is that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitutio,n the specific power to regulate intrastate aviation issues.
So once again we have evidence of the corrupt, citizen-elected Senate passing an unconstitutional bill that it should have either killed, or proposed an aviation amendment to the Constitution to the states, the states not obligated to ratify any proposed amendment to the Constitution.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
My Father The Drone
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