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It Looks Like Raging Hockey Fans Destroyed An LAPD Drone Last Night
Business Insider ^ | June 14, 2014 | Hunter Walker

Posted on 06/14/2014 6:16:27 PM PDT by Veggie Todd

Multiple videos have been posted online showing what uploaders described as hockey fans destroying a Los Angeles Police Department drone outside the Staples Center Friday night after the LA Kings won the NHL's Stanley Cup. Riot police were called in to break up what the LA Times described as a "melee" outside the arena following the King's victory over the New York Rangers.

In one clip posted online, a drone can be seen hovering over the crowd of hockey fans before it was knocked out of the sky by people throwing shoes and clothing:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; drone; drones; hockey; lakins; lapd
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To: Rodamala

I wish those were real...Lucky Gunner would have made a fortune from me.


61 posted on 06/14/2014 7:27:35 PM PDT by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

...which is the concept of what I’ve been saying...the “right” anti-drone device is a a large, thin, nylon net, shot out of a pneumatic tube...$5.00 of nylon to knock out a $50,000 piece of equipment...a good deal. These things are by definition, flmsy and don’t have a lot of power to work with. A little weight or fouled propellers, they will go down like bricks.


62 posted on 06/14/2014 7:29:34 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: The Antiyuppie

To follow up, that particular drone is about $2500 loaded with camera, but the “pro” quality platforms are 10K and up.


63 posted on 06/14/2014 7:36:10 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Rodamala
...I believe this is a fictional product...

It is.

I saw a similar parody on a left-wing site a while back, after the initial hysteria over domestic drone use.

I read on one site where it had received a few thousand inquiries for source info.

And getting an effective hit with any kind of shot gun round at 3200+ feet would be pretty damned good!

Except maybe a sabot slug?

Anyway, thanks for the chuckle.

64 posted on 06/14/2014 7:37:08 PM PDT by OldSmaj (I am an avowed enemy of islam and obama is a damned fool and traitor. Questions?)
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To: Veggie Todd

How long will it be before the powers that be decide it would be a great idea to arm these drones?


65 posted on 06/14/2014 7:37:11 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: al baby
So I am curious why do you think he is an idiot?

Did you see how low he was flying it?

66 posted on 06/14/2014 7:37:25 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Melowese Richardson - Democrat Vote Fraud Expert)
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To: babygene

I don’t understand why it was so low. I would assume police drones, assuming it was one, have descent optics to get either widevshots if the crowd or specific areas.


67 posted on 06/14/2014 7:38:22 PM PDT by matt04
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To: OldSmaj

“Where can I get some depleted uranium?”

At one time, it was used as ballast in aircraft. I don’t know if it is still used. Once the good stuff is removed, it isn’t that valuable.


68 posted on 06/14/2014 7:38:25 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Rodamala

Dang, man, I thought you Photoshopped it - until I looked it up.

The old see-saw begins - shotgun pellets to take out a drone, so they up armor the drone, so they make a more powerful rifle/shotgun load, so they . . .


69 posted on 06/14/2014 7:40:10 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

The taxpayer funded platform is four times as much.


70 posted on 06/14/2014 7:42:08 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: Oatka

Dang man, redux - it IS fictional. Now I have to cancel that check. :-)


71 posted on 06/14/2014 7:43:25 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: OSHA
The drone operators were named Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow.

LOL! They got demoted to flying drones ;)

72 posted on 06/14/2014 7:44:26 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Melowese Richardson - Democrat Vote Fraud Expert)
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To: Veggie Todd

Yes, it looks like a DJI Phontom the RC plane hobbyists are into; as opposed to the LAPD. The LAPD would be using something more substantial and would be trained to fly it out of reach of thrown objects.


73 posted on 06/14/2014 7:45:00 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: VeniVidiVici

“I frying duhlones now.”


74 posted on 06/14/2014 7:46:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: OldSmaj
How about a slingshot?


75 posted on 06/14/2014 7:50:30 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Veggie Todd
"We're going to thoroughly vet the public's opinion on the use of the aerial surveillance platforms," Beck said.

Hey Beck, you have your answer!

76 posted on 06/14/2014 7:53:30 PM PDT by matthew fuller (We should swap twenty million Mexican illegal aliens for Marine SGT Andrew Tahmooressi.)
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To: EEGator

That such topics would even arise and questions such as yours would be asked.


77 posted on 06/14/2014 7:54:23 PM PDT by posterchild (It takes a politician to declare a settled science.)
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To: matt04

“I don’t understand why it was so low.”

The pilot or his supervisor obviously thought that the drone would intimidate the crowd. That is what came into mind when I saw the flight path.


78 posted on 06/14/2014 7:57:28 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Another potentially useful anti-drone device would be an old-fashioned, early 20th century spark-gap transmitter/antenna...the drones are probably designed to hover and circle if they lose contact with the controller. So, they eventually run out of gas/electricity, and drop out of the sky. It is important to recover it reasonably intact, because there are valuable goodies on/in it...for example, the particular drone in this article probably had a GoPro camera, which is very nice (a few hundred bucks at least) and could be “re-purposed”.


79 posted on 06/14/2014 7:59:37 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Jack Hydrazine
How about a slingshot?

As a youngster, I was pretty damned deadly with one.

Not too effective beyond about 30 yards, though.

But as someone postulated in another post...I think the most effective means of bringing down a relatively low flying drone would be a nylon net.

And I could once throw one of those (weighted, of course) about 30 yards or so, fairly accurately.

There are now devices that shoot nets of many configurations out to a 100 yards and beyond.

Still, anyone operating a drone that low is just begging for it to be brought down.

80 posted on 06/14/2014 8:00:09 PM PDT by OldSmaj (I am an avowed enemy of islam and obama is a damned fool and traitor. Questions?)
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