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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: babygene
great idea... miniature anti-quadrotor drone barrage ballons for your next tea party rally.


81 posted on 06/14/2014 8:00:42 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Oatka

“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 . . .”

With presently available technology, non-military drones (especially those that hover) can just barely lift the weight they have now, and have very limited flight duration capability.


82 posted on 06/14/2014 8:02:31 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Veggie Todd

http://www.spudtech.com/content.asp?id=5


83 posted on 06/14/2014 8:02:34 PM PDT by matthew fuller (We should swap twenty million Mexican illegal aliens for Marine SGT Andrew Tahmooressi.)
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To: The Antiyuppie
With presently available technology, non-military drones (especially those that hover) can just barely lift the weight they have now, and have very limited flight duration capability.

That's good to hear. I noticed that "drone" that was knocked down looked pretty flimsy.

84 posted on 06/14/2014 8:04:11 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Depleted uranium is extremely dense. Been used for decades as subcaliber penetrators in Sabot tank main gun ammo.

Used on the M-1 Abrams tank as ballistic skirting. Very difficult to breach.

DU has many uses. As anti-drone shotgun ammo it now has an additional one. How about a Remington Accelerator sabot round in 30-06, only with a DU core instead of JHP? Could easily reach 3 km aimed straight up at one of Holder’s spies in the skies.


85 posted on 06/14/2014 8:06:03 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Veggie Todd

Per the L.A. Times, there were several drones on site being operated by TV stations and production companies. LAPD is of the opinion the one downed wasn’t theirs.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-kings-arrests-20140614-story.html


86 posted on 06/14/2014 8:07:41 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: tophat9000

I got that. Well played.


87 posted on 06/14/2014 8:09:50 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

Ever see `Rowdy Roddy’ Piper in the movie, `They Live!’?
Rowdy shot-gunned one at about that height because it kept nagging him: `OBEY, CONSUME, CONFORM’.


88 posted on 06/14/2014 8:11:22 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Rotary gap transmitters have been illegal since the 1930’s.

That dancing blue spark which enabled the doomed Titanic’s wireless op to send the very first S.O.S. will interfere with absolutely any electronic device built since say, 1925.

What it would do to today’s digitized remote controllers is anybody’s guess.


89 posted on 06/14/2014 8:13:16 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: OldSmaj

If you’re series, you might want to research tungsten. It is the same weight as gold within one percent. And it’s not terribly expensive.


90 posted on 06/14/2014 8:13:20 PM PDT by matthew fuller (We should swap twenty million Mexican illegal aliens for Marine SGT Andrew Tahmooressi.)
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To: Veggie Todd

Good I am glad that LA King fan took it out LMAO


91 posted on 06/14/2014 8:15:07 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: BenLurkin

Least LA King fan didn’t riot they have some trash cans on fire least they so called behave themselves


92 posted on 06/14/2014 8:15:50 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: All

Not sure if it was LAPD’s or not:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR39DErszRE


93 posted on 06/14/2014 8:19:23 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Has any President in history sunk to such a level of self-flattery & validation-seeking?)
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To: BenLurkin

That appears to be a DJI Phantom drone, available online or at hobby shops. I doubt it was a police drone.


94 posted on 06/14/2014 8:21:59 PM PDT by zeebee (There are no coincidences.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
hell... a cheap fly rod and you can snatch one right out of the air
95 posted on 06/14/2014 8:35:49 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
The taxpayer funded platform is four times as much.<<

That's because its armament are $600 hammers!

96 posted on 06/14/2014 8:37:44 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: matthew fuller
...you might want to research tungsten.

I believe tungsten was tried and found not viable, back when all the hooraw was going on over replacing lead shot that was killing all the ducks that were not hit with it, but that were consuming it off the bottom of the lakes and ponds.

Among other animals, too, I guess.

I think tungsten was pretty hard to work with, with the current technology for shot forming.

97 posted on 06/14/2014 8:38:17 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: Rodamala

“great idea... miniature anti-quadrotor drone barrage ballons for your next tea party rally.”

Thanks... but it doesn’t have to be that complex. A dozen Mylar balloons from the dollar store on some stout fishing line will do. Once the string wraps around the prop shaft, it’s over...


98 posted on 06/14/2014 9:00:47 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: driftdiver
So will the drone be buried will full honors due a hero?.

Most assuredly - died in the line of duty!
99 posted on 06/14/2014 9:04:38 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: OSHA

I saw that happen live. Priceless! Wasn’t the last one named Bing BangOwj?


100 posted on 06/14/2014 9:26:38 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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