Octocopter shot down

[Jumpy07]

Animal Rights Octocopter Shot Down at Legal "Pigeon Shoot" http://j.mp/TauDwJ

[Gaza07]

Well they keep using the word spying so I suppose any one would shoot one down that thought they were being spied on and having their privacy invaded, not that this makes blasting pigeons in to oblivion right or wrong but its just not right spying on folks that have gone out of their way to be private, as for the pigeons flying rats if you ask me   

[Jumpy07]

Agree Gary.. got issues with both sides of this ..  but was more interested in the Lipo on fire.. and they guy pulling it out by his bare hands and chucking it..

[sausageroll]

Id be confident that at this altitude our sausagecopters wouldn';t bat an eyelid at being shot with a shotgun (assuming they were using shotguns...)

[Gaza07]

Well if the did shoot yours down Pete and it fell on them they wouldn';t be shooting at another one in a rush  ::)

[Gaza07]

Im betting his last thoughts were his own safety like bike riders when they come off their bikes the first thought is oh my bike is it alright   

Agree Gary.. got issues with both sides of this ..  but was more interested in the Lipo on fire.. and they guy pulling it out by his bare hands and chucking it..

[XH558]

Im betting his last thoughts were his own safety like bike riders when they come off their bikes the first thought is oh my bike is it alright   

I have an off topic true story here on that very subject ... when I was at college back in the 70s I was with a mate in a Morris 1000 van... we were turning right and indicating right and waiting in the centre of the road .... a bike thinks he can get past us before we turn ... he';s wrong ....and he slams into our front right wheel arch big time just as we turn  .... we see him fly over the bonnet in a lovely arc and land on the road on the other side of the van .... he';s sitting up in jeans and a T shirt - no helmets in those days - clutching his arm .... yelling .. "look at me bike ...look at me fookin'; bike!"  ... his bike is buried in the wheel arch ....

Just then a lovely young lady comes walking up the road ... mini skirt - tight top ... big handbag ... looks a bit dishevelled ... we ask her if she saw what happened and will she be a witness ....

"Be a witness!" she says ... "I was a fookin'; witness alright" ....... "I was on the back of his bike!"

She';d gone over his head in an even bigger arc and landed on the grass verge 20 or so yards away ... we never even saw her she went so high ..... 

She then proceeds to set about him with her handbag .... "Never mind yer fookin'; bike ... what about me" ... 

True story that ... she did him more damage than the crash....

[Gaza07]

Cracking story  see what I mean his bike was foremost in his mind and not his girlfriend