BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???

Subject: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Nov 11 - 08:38 AM

Well, well, well...

Seems that there are 266 companies out there designing and building "personal drones" that will soon be working out details with the FAA to start flying these over the United States... Most will be used by the 16,000 state and local police departments...

Hmmmmmmmm???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Nov 11 - 09:06 AM

Building better skeet targets....

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Nov 11 - 10:13 AM

The one overflying Bobertz will have the mistletoe pattern camo pattern.....................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 29 Nov 11 - 05:06 PM

New York City Police already claim "more surveillance devices" than any other US locale (almost as many as London?), and have said that they have the capability (firepower) to bring down aircraft. They've fretted over their "shortage" of armored vehicles capable of taking heavy weapons fire. Their intelligence(?) systems are claimed (by the chief) to be "better than ... " (he named a couple of countries that might be embarrassing to some here). Given that Wall Street is in their town, one might wonder if they're planning a military takeover of the rest of us. ...

Surveillance drones have been around long enough that there are lots of people capable of working up potentially useful designs in a few weeks, given a bit of cash and a decent small shop, and some lawnmower engines would work with little modification* for something with a few hundred miles range or loiter times of several hours.

*Fairly extensive engine modifications would probably be helpful, but most of the parts are available, or easily made, if one knows the market and can decide on precisely what they want the machine to do.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: gnu
Date: 29 Nov 11 - 07:39 PM

I know an engineer who works on such things. Fact is, they can be easily taken down but he says their video capability would allow police to determine who took them out as it can be uplinked in real time.

Now don'tchya think TWO good ol boys can mess that up? I betchya ONE good ol boy could do it. I know one that could fuck up one a them hovering drones no sweat.

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Nov 11 - 08:03 PM

Ya'll thought I was making tis stuff up, didn't ya'...

This is the real deal... In 10 years there will 1000s of these things hovering 200 feet over our backyard BBQs...

Welcome to 1984... Arrived a little late...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Nov 11 - 08:27 PM

"Of course I shot that thang down! I thought it wuz them heathen Chinese spyin' on us good Americans!"

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Nov 11 - 08:32 PM

Good on you, Beeze...

Ah, there's someone at the door... Better go get your toothbrush before you answer it...

B;~~

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 30 Nov 11 - 12:09 AM

The one that's a real worry is the DARPA project to built a humminbird sized drone that can fly right into your bedroom and hover while it takes notes.

The Baptist Taliban down the street will be first on the list to buy a few hundred of those, if they get them working like they expect.

Few of the common kinds of drones hover, but photo surveillance is good enough for many purposes from 10,000 feet agl, certainly from 1,000 ft. Even a country boy is gonna have a hard time hitting something that's not big enough to see from that far away, even if it's only circling at 40 or 50 kt.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Nov 11 - 08:30 AM

The Baptist's down the street will get a rude awakening when they find that their wives and husbands are on another street shacked up doing what the preacher told 'um not to do...

Lol...

Ya' gotta love them Baptists... They know how to have fun...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: gnu
Date: 30 Nov 11 - 02:57 PM

I went out with a Baptist way back when. She attended BJU in Greenville, South Carolina for two years.

I'll stop right there and just say... Bobert... yup.

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Nov 11 - 06:17 PM

LOL, Gn-ze... I'll leave that one alone...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 05:36 PM

How about DARPA's plan to make bugs carry spy devices:

Beetles with Backpacks

????

Are you sure those are just bedbugs that have been all over ya?

(or maybe they look like fleas)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 08:25 PM

What next, John??? Spy dogs??? Hey??? That's not a bad idea...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: gnu
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 08:42 PM

Keep yer eyes on the weener dogs eh wha? They might be keeping an eye on you. ARF!

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 01 Dec 11 - 09:06 PM

One of you guys what runs into him might wanna tell Shane about the new Cop Car equipment.

Not that it'll help him stay loose, but it might help him to figure out what all of it is the next time he steals one.(?)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Dec 11 - 06:37 PM

Just as long as them cop cars can't see that Natural Lite I got tucked between my legs, I'll be okay... Now if a danged drone flies in thru an open window and starts snooping then it's a different story...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 01:09 PM

Ya know, Bobert, when I first saw this thread I thought is was about someone learning the bagpipes.

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 10:08 AM

Wiener dogs have an innate fear of being stalked by large flying predators. These government drones are the final realization of those fears. No wiener dog is going to rest easy once those damned things are flying around over our homes, but they can be counted upon to sound the alarm if one comes anywhere near.

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 10:56 AM

Those dogs also fear bagpipes. So does everyone else.

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 10:59 AM

With good reason!

You've seen Braveheart, haven't you?

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Stringsinger
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 01:23 PM

The metaphor of a drone is fitting considering the state of law enforcement today in the US.
Drones are an extension of the Robocop, often personified,who shows no compassion in the exercise of administering the law. The use of drones reflect the inhumanity of the U.S. military and the political leadership that allow this abusive practice. Drones should be outlawed as a crime against humanity (of course I feel that way about all war).

Surveillance drones exacerbate the problem and there is no justification for them ever.

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 07:20 PM

Yeah, Strings, and in 10 years there will tens of thousands of these flying over the US 24/7...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 08:54 PM

Big Brother is very busy "securing" the nation...and the world, and not for the benefit of those in the 99%.

Subject: RE: BS: Barney Fife to get Drone???
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 09:12 PM

Yup...

B~