posted by
janrinok
on Thursday April 03 2014, @09:19PM
from the arriving-home-with-a-dead-drone-strapped-on-your-SUV dept.
from the arriving-home-with-a-dead-drone-strapped-on-your-SUV dept.
Citizens of Deer Trail, Colorado have overwhelmingly (73%) rejected issuing licenses for drone-hunting.
Now, stay with me here for a moment, when I first read the title I thought that it implied using drones for hunting purposes. Now that is certainly 'geekish' but not very sporting. But I was mistaken. The drones would be the target! Some citizens of Deer Trail, Colorado, (55 miles east of Denver), thought it might attract tourists if they could buy a license to take pot shots at any passing government drones. I'm not sure how many government drones there usually are in the skies above Deer Trail, Colorado, but, if this law had been passed, there might have been a few less.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Blackmoore on Thursday April 03 2014, @09:24PM
Obligitory Tom Lehrer hunting song [youtube.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by Aighearach on Thursday April 03 2014, @09:38PM
It was not about hunting government drones, it was about hunting target drones as a form of anti-drone protest (and related tourist ventures).
While the poster, and editor, seem to be totally clueless about civics, a local law does not supercede federal or state law, and it is illegal to destroy state or federal government property. So the license would NOT mean random passing drones were "in season."
(Score: 2, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Thursday April 03 2014, @10:14PM
And, shooting down an expensive and slow moving target filled with toxic materials is better than a clay skeet target because?
Maybe we could just paint pictures of (Choose as many as you like: Obama, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Fran Drescher, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, your college roommate...) on the skeet instead?
🌻🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Friday April 04 2014, @01:51AM
What, no love for The Nanny?
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 3, Funny) by fliptop on Thursday April 03 2014, @10:25PM
Perhaps, but the county sheriff has the highest authority within his jurisdiction [rense.com] and federal authorities cannot operate w/o a sheriff's permission. How do you think Colorado and Washington are getting away w/ decriminalizing marijuana?
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 1) by WillR on Friday April 04 2014, @12:09AM
I see.
Popular sentiment on their side; the Feds don't think the inevitable public backlash about arresting non-violent offenders over the objections of the community is worth whatever benefit might come from a few weed dealing arrests. It's got nothing to do with federal law enforcement needing some sort of prior approval from the county sheriff, as amply demonstrated by the former confederate states not still being segregated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 03 2014, @11:30PM
But... what if you thought it was a russian spy drone? :P
(Score: 2) by rts008 on Thursday April 03 2014, @09:45PM
While I understand the sentiment behind the 'roots' of this issue(one man's protesting the domestic use of drones), the 'takeover' of the protest as a business decision to increase revenue shows some astounding stupidity. That attitude of 'the hell with laws and ethics' by many modern businesses is causing a lot of strange repercussions, like this escapade.
It looks like 'idiocy run amok' in the business world.
(business world includes many local governments)
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday April 03 2014, @10:02PM
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(Score: 4, Informative) by mattie_p on Thursday April 03 2014, @10:13PM
According to The Source [thesource.com], more than 1000 people signed up for novelty licenses as of September. Buy your novelty license here [droneshooters.com].
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @08:15AM
Real men use EMP devices and RF jammers.