Drones, I might buy a gun.

ablueclaret · Post by **ablueclaret** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:29 pm

Guns to me are the biggest no no in a democracy they replace freedom by fear, If there was one invention I'd get rid of it would be them, but drones are almost making me change my mind.
A vast drone over the allotment at Lacock today, and true to its name it made a horrendous din, just sitting their taking its photos for some unseen individual, the last sanctity of space the sky taken from us, the all seeing eye the humans worst nightmare now a real threat. One step too far for me, I'm getting my catapults ready.

MarkGreen · Post by **MarkGreen** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:31 pm

ablueclaret wrote:Guns to me are the biggest no no in a democracy they replace freedom by fear, If there was one invention I'd get rid of it would be them, but drones are almost making me change my mind.
A vast drone over the allotment at Lacock today, and true to its name it made a horrendous din, just sitting their taking its photos for some unseen individual, the last sanctity of space the sky taken from us, the all seeing eye the humans worst nightmare now a real threat. One step too far for me, I'm getting my catapults ready.

You sound like a guilty man who has been caught up to no good

Chester Perry · Post by **Chester Perry** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:33 pm

abc - wow - I have to say this is something on which I can wholeheartedly agree with you on - never thought it would happen, but we live and learn - damn things should be outlawed

Down_Rover · Post by **Down_Rover** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:35 pm

Could not agree more.

CCTV, mobile phone tracking, social media and email monitoring, the PC brigade.

No hope for individualistic flair, just do as you are told.

1984 is no longer fiction

bartons baggage · Post by **bartons baggage** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 4:22 pm

ablueclaret wrote:Guns to me are the biggest no no in a democracy they replace freedom by fear, If there was one invention I'd get rid of it would be them, but drones are almost making me change my mind.
A vast drone over the allotment at Lacock today, and true to its name it made a horrendous din, just sitting their taking its photos for some unseen individual, the last sanctity of space the sky taken from us, the all seeing eye the humans worst nightmare now a real threat. One step too far for me, I'm getting my catapults ready.

It's not like you drone on or anything is it?.

claretdom · Post by **claretdom** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 4:24 pm

You can just picture ablue in his camouflage gear hiding in his cabbages taking pot shots at the drone

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 4:27 pm

I wonder what abc is growing?

RocketLawnChair · Post by **RocketLawnChair** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 4:30 pm

Rileybobs wrote:I wonder what abc is growing?

James Tarkowski's

ablueclaret · Post by **ablueclaret** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 4:59 pm

Middle of the allotment still lies empty, though the size of it hardly warrants the title midfield.

Chester Perry · Post by **Chester Perry** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 5:02 pm

reminds me of team of Carragher's

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FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 5:21 pm

Has anybody flown one? What sort of range do you get? I can see how they'd be fun to fly.

ablueclaret · Post by **ablueclaret** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 5:33 pm

These ones don't have passenger space but are a complete menace.

Bordeauxclaret · Post by **Bordeauxclaret** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 5:58 pm

Reny Smith loves them.

dermotdermot · Post by **dermotdermot** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 6:57 pm

ablueclaret wrote:Guns to me are the biggest no no in a democracy they replace freedom by fear, If there was one invention I'd get rid of it would be them, but drones are almost making me change my mind.
A vast drone over the allotment at Lacock today, and true to its name it made a horrendous din, just sitting their taking its photos for some unseen individual, the last sanctity of space the sky taken from us, the all seeing eye the humans worst nightmare now a real threat. One step too far for me, I'm getting my catapults ready.

You can get into a lot of trouble with a catapult, believe me. Especially if you use four square elastic.

KLClaret · Post by **KLClaret** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 7:06 pm

RocketLawnChair wrote:James Tarkowski's

Nearly spat my beer out

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 7:08 pm

FactualFrank wrote:Has anybody flown one? What sort of range do you get? I can see how they'd be fun to fly.

You should watch the Drone Racing League championship.

I randomly watched it last year, one race and its mentally fast.

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FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 7:27 pm

Sidney1st wrote:You should watch the Drone Racing League championship.

I randomly watched it last year, one race and its mentally fast.

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On Sky Mix? I watched a bit of it last year too.

IWOODLOVETT · Post by **IWOODLOVETT** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 7:50 pm

abc - your non-football related posts are so much more interesting and amusing than the devil's advocate sort that you usually indulge yourself in.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 8:13 pm

Professor Tarkowski in the allotment with the gun.

Firthy · Post by **Firthy** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 8:17 pm

Totally agree with you. Surely it's classed as an invasion of your privacy if someone is looking into your garden through a camera on a drone. I'd be tempted to do the same, shoot it down and throw it in your bin.

ablueclaret · Post by **ablueclaret** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 10:00 pm

This one was about 12 foot in diameter and operating at about 200', might have been out of range. The fact it can just sit over you with its owner obviously able to watch everything you're doing is frightening, but the fact you have to put up with an intrusive noisy machine hovering over you and ruining the peace and tranquility of the sky is even more disturbing.
Progress as they say often takes us to places it's better not to be.

CrispyClaret · Post by **CrispyClaret** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 7:09 am

FactualFrank wrote:Has anybody flown one? What sort of range do you get? I can see how they'd be fun to fly.

I have a drone and yes they are great fun to fly. Range varies from machine to machine, I have been out to the maximum recommended in the uk, about 1800 feet.
And no, I don't take videos of people. And no, I don't fly near aircraft, actually impossible to do with mine as it geofenced and won't even take off in restricted airspace.

Sproggy · Post by **Sproggy** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 7:15 am

We went camping last summer and someone on the site insisted on flying one over us at random times during the day so we bought a couple of kites for the kids.

LoveCurryPies · Post by **LoveCurryPies** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:30 am

If Google start flying thousands of drones, I will buy a gun! Reason is if I choose to sit in a quiet park, or on a beach, or walk in the countryside...I do not want endless Google drones buzzing away.

The best solution I have seen is a gun that sends out multi radio waves and jams the signal causing the drones to fall out the sky.

LoveCurryPies · Post by **LoveCurryPies** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:32 am

ps. I am not against a single drone being used to take photos etc. It is the thought of hundreds of thousands of commercial devices making a constant buzz over this great country. And what effect on wildlife?

RocketLawnChair · Post by **RocketLawnChair** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:48 am

LoveCurryPies wrote:If Google start flying thousands of drones, I will buy a gun! Reason is if I choose to sit in a quiet park, or on a beach, or walk in the countryside...I do not want endless Google drones buzzing away.

The best solution I have seen is a gun that sends out multi radio waves and jams the signal causing the drones to fall out the sky.

Not sure what I would find most disturbing during my countryside jaunt, The overhead buzz of the drones or some random rambler furiously letting off lead towards the sky..

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 11:02 am

LoveCurryPies wrote:
The best solution I have seen is a gun that sends out multi radio waves and jams the signal causing the drones to fall out the sky.

Ray gun?

Pstotto · Post by **Pstotto** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 11:27 am

Picture this in a not too distant future, a supertanker bring 'Christmas presents' all the way from China but instead the cargo is full of warrior drones, google mapping and poisoned plastic darts to police every street corner in the UK and wipe us out before Nostradamus's 'hordes from the East invade, having softened the whole of the populace to catatonia and schizophrenic psychoses via MOTD and the computer graphic 'football' pushing yr psyche to the back of one's skull as it invades one's personal space.

How about you build a warrior drone to down the one over yr allotment, Ablue.

claretdom · Post by **claretdom** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 11:28 am

Pstotto wrote:Picture this in a not too distant future, a supertanker bring 'Christmas presents' all the way from China but instead the cargo is full of warrior drones, google mapping and poisoned plastic darts to police every street corner in the UK and wipe us out before Nostradamus's 'hordes from the East invade, having softened the whole of the populace to catatonia and schizophrenic psychoses via MOTD and the computer graphic 'football' pushing yr psyche to the back of one's skull as it invades one's personal space.

How about you build a warrior drone to down the one over yr allotment, Ablue.

Do you drink in trawden ?

HiroshimaClaret · Post by **HiroshimaClaret** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 11:35 am

ablueclaret wrote:Guns to me are the biggest no no in a democracy they replace freedom by fear, If there was one invention I'd get rid of it would be them, but drones are almost making me change my mind.
A vast drone over the allotment at Lacock today, and true to its name it made a horrendous din, just sitting their taking its photos for some unseen individual, the last sanctity of space the sky taken from us, the all seeing eye the humans worst nightmare now a real threat. One step too far for me, I'm getting my catapults ready.

A similar experience/feeling the other month here in Japan. I went with the family to a local `spot` much loved by the locals with a beautiful waterfall the main draw. 50 or 60 people enjoying the majesty but alas a bloody drone DIRECTLY in our line of sight. After 2 minutes, I spotted to chap in control, walked down to him and stood directly in front of him. He said "I can`t see my drone" to which I replied "We can`t see our waterfall". He landed his craft shortly thereafter.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:28 pm

Seems odd that people think they have a right to enjoy a park but other people engaging in different but perfectly legal activities don't.

Walton · Post by **Walton** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:33 pm

I picture drone aficionados as being those weirdos in camo trousers, beige fishing jackets and those weird tinted glasses.

pureclaret · Post by **pureclaret** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:48 pm

will keying of a CB radio have the same effect that they had on model airplanes. I knew so called enthusiastic CB guys who used to go up on pendle and just key the mikes for fun. Not something I indulged in but just wonder if that would knock said drones out of the sky. 19 for a copy starfighter going down

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 3:15 pm

CB enthusiasts
Drone flyers
Metal detector wielders

All cut from the same cloth - polyester probably

Walton · Post by **Walton** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 3:29 pm

Chobulous wrote:CB enthusiasts
Drone flyers
Metal detector wielders

All cut from the same cloth - polyester probably

They usually drive an old Mitsubishi Pajero with the exhaust coming up over the cab, raised suspension, and a confederate flag sticker on the bumper. Nonces.

conyoviejo · Post by **conyoviejo** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:05 pm

Walton wrote:They usually drive an old Mitsubishi Pajero with the exhaust coming up over the cab, raised suspension, and a confederate flag sticker on the bumper. Nonces.

Sabes lo que significa la palabra "pájero" en Español Walton ?

Walton · Post by **Walton** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:08 pm

Pstotto · Post by **Pstotto** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:01 pm

... I thought all the pubs in Trawden had closed, CD.

The answer in no.

Sproggy · Post by **Sproggy** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:09 pm

We still have 2 pubs, if you include the Cock Hill Club.

ablueclaret · Post by **ablueclaret** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 7:10 pm

Once you fill airspace wth noise you might as well give up, the world needs silence more than anything and yet people are terrified of it.