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Around 3 a.m. on Monday, a two-foot, four-propeller drone flying at low altitude crashed on the southeast side of the White House complex, the Associated Press reports.
Around 3 a.m. on Monday, a two-foot, four-propeller drone flying at low altitude crashed on the southeast side of the White House complex, the Associated Press reports.
Not really sure I'd call it a security breach anymore than if some guy pulled up out front with a flatbed truck and used surgical tubing to launch water balloons.
I'm sure they've had concerns for a long time about how they'd deal with various terror attacks ranging from someone trying to crash a plane (small or large) or terrorists firing mortars or rpgs etc. at it.
You really can't stop everything but if it had been carrying something like a bomb then one would hope it wouldn't have gotten past the armored glass or whatnot that secures the place.
The cost and capabilities of small drones has raised ALOT of concerns about misuse either intentional or just neglectfully. They're awfully small and with go-pro on them people could fly them into a lot of places where they could cause trouble.
Heck, I'm waiting for someone to do something like that at a major sporting event. Could you imagine some tool just flying one around disrupting the superbowl? They'd have to suspend the game until it could be dealt with.
Idiots doing this kind of crap are going to ruin the hobby for everyone.
And that is the takeaway form this brouhaha. It's how it always happens.
I used to climb rocks - back then we were considered a slightly odd, mildly suicidal, but ultimately harmless group of people.
Then people start behaving stupidly - trample plants, drill in bolts wherever, I've seen odious people paint the holds on a route. And so property owners, park managers etc. start to regulate and control access, because what else can they do?
With GPS enabled drones at a few thousand bucks, it was just a matter of time before somebody with more money than sense did something really stupid.
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