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Selfish %#$&%s. I would fully support the firefighters takings them out of the sky with any means necessary. Jam their communications, throw nets, have an 'atta
by lcswi 11y ago
Selfish %#$&%s. I would fully support the firefighters takings them out of the sky with any means necessary. Jam their communications, throw nets, have an 'attack' drone, anything. Surely there are some laws about obstructing firefighters or other emergency services?
- kiallmacinnes 11y agoYea, my first thought was "Just shoot them down".. Then I realized that's probably harder than it sounds ;) Plus the risk of stray bullets etc etc.. Still, there's likely something that can be done besides wandering the area and kindly asking the people with drone control's in their hands to stop.
- CamperBob2 11y agoI don't see why a shotgun wouldn't be a reasonably safe way to deal with these things.
- brobinson 11y agoThe shot can travel a significant distance and still be deadly when they come back down to Earth.
- omginternets 11y agoIt's no more dangerous than shooting at ducks. Besides, nobody is really supposed to be wandering around near a forest fire. If they happen to be there, I say "fair game" -- I'll even pay $10 for an ear.
- simoncion 11y agoHunting birds in flight is a common activity. If you -as all projectile-weapon-wielding hunters should be- are aware of what is downrange, then shooting at things in flight with a shotgun is a relatively low risk activity. A few bits of stray shot travelling at terminal velocity are unlikely to do significant lasting harm to someone on the ground. (For comparison, try to find out how many folks have had fatal encounters with pellet or BB guns. The size and weight of an average BB is in the same ballpark as a single piece of shot.)
- andyl 11y agoI've been hit by falling shot dozens of times. Still alive. Eye injury is a risk. You need eye protection, in the form of goggles or ballistic glasses.
- CamperBob2 11y agoGonna hafta call [Citation Needed] on anyone killed by ballistic birdshot.
- omginternets 11y agoSeriously. Dick Cheney blasted a colleague right in the face and the guy was able to apologize for getting shot the next day. (I wish I were making this up)
- brobinson 11y agoInstead of replying to everyone, I'll reply to myself: I was thinking of regular shot (20/12/10 gauge), not bird shot. I have a skeet shooting mentality. I imagine you all are correct and bird shot would not be carrying deadly velocity when it returns to ground level.
- dogma1138 11y agono it won't you wouldn't even feel bird shot falling on you the energy it has from it's terminal velocity is really nothing. Anyone who's been to skeet, pigeon or water bird shoot can tell you that, you only really notice it when you hear it hit your hat / jacket it sounds like rain more than anything else. A bullet needs to be fairly heavy to actually kill you, even 72grn bullets are not heavy enough to do serious damage, they will hurt tho...
- Coding_Cat 11y agoI wonder if you could use some kind of foam gun, which fires a fast hardening and sticky foam to jam up the motors/cover the blades. You still have the issues of (possibly heavy) drones falling to the ground, and lithium batteries in a fire. But it might be worth the trade-off for dealing with the wildfire quicker.
- ende 11y agoThey are firefighters.. they have giany squirt guns. They gotta have some range.