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Drone delivery of coffees, medicine and food comes to a halt in an Australian suburb because aggressive RAVENS won't stop attacking the sky-high tech
The Daily Mail UK ^
| 22 September 2021
| ELIZA MCPHEE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
Posted on 09/22/2021 7:26:45 PM PDT by blueplum
Aggressive ravens have forced a drone delivery service to pause flights altogether after bizarre footage emerged of the birds attacking them in the skies above Australia's capital.
The service Wing, run in collaboration with Google, offers Canberra residents the option to buy essential items like coffee, food, medicine and hardware supplies through a drone which drops off each package to their homes.
But lately in the northern suburb of Harrison those eagerly awaiting their morning lattes have instead been greeted by vicious ravens...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: australia; birdpower; dronedelivery; it
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ravens protesting species appropriation?
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:26:45 PM PDT
by
blueplum
To: blueplum
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:29:49 PM PDT
by
Theoria
To: blueplum
Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore!!”
To: blueplum
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door—
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:29:51 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: blueplum
Sounds like the drone transport wings need drone escorts to deliver their payloads. ...Or maybe they can train ravens or magpies to BE the escorts!
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:33:04 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: blueplum
Get drones that look like Helen Thomas....
To: blueplum
Equip the drones with chaff dispensers. A raven gets close, deploy French fries.
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:35:39 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: blueplum
Wasn’t this predicted in the last scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “The Birds”? OMG, its beginning.
To: Theoria
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:36:03 PM PDT
by
RWGinger
(Does anyone else really )
To: Tennessee Nana
"Blasphemy!"
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:36:20 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: blueplum
Obviously they need scarecrow drones. Duh
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:36:26 PM PDT
by
Track9
(Liberalism is a far worse virus. )
To: blueplum
Aussies forgettin’ the entire continent is trying to kill them. Next up: drop bears destroying self-driving cars.
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:38:16 PM PDT
by
jz638
To: blueplum
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:38:52 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
To: Track9
..If they only had a brain.
To: gundog
Hahahahahaha!
‘Breaking right and deploying fries!”
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:39:46 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
To: gundog
Pretty soon they’d carrying more chaff than coffee!
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:40:59 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Tennessee Nana
Won’t work. Ravens feed on carrion
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:41:57 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: blueplum
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:44:05 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: lee martell
You’re right. They are called ozies after all.
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:44:52 PM PDT
by
Track9
(Liberalism is a far worse virus. )
To: BradyLS
Bigger drones with fighter escorts?
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posted on
09/22/2021 7:45:31 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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