Time to tune in for #dronecrashmas (tweets by @faineg ). Warms my heart every year. https://t.co/zN9fp8lAvF
— David Ramos (@imagineterrain) December 25, 2021
“Accidentally destroying the much-begged-for gifts within hours” is a humor trope that probably goes back as far as every other seasonal gift-giving ritual, but DRONEZ have that extra layer of technical fragility + (mostly) public display…
Sorry the drone I got for Christmas crashed into your bedroom window.
— Just Bill (@WilliamAder) December 26, 2021
Got a drone for Christmas and I immediately crashed it into a wall and broke all the propellors ??
— avery rose has is thorn (@baemax_911) December 26, 2021
Eldest got a drone for #Christmas, so there's been a small buzzing thing flying about the house all morning.
Another member of the family has been trying to figure out how to kill it.#Pickle #ApexPredator pic.twitter.com/y5FbjZIIK0
— Dean Burnett (@garwboy) December 25, 2021
A few years ago I bought my friends daughters some cheerson CX-10s, they got quite good at buzzing the dog to annoy him, until the day the german shepherd jumped up almost to the ceiling bit the drone out of the air and threw it on the sofa which the kids thought was hilarious
— Robin Bradshaw ??? (@en4rab) December 26, 2021
this is the primary function of tall people: rescuing drones #dronecrashmas https://t.co/JJsB2NzIq1
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) December 26, 2021
?BillinGlendaleCA
I managed to crash my drone for the first time on Christmas Eve*. I got a DJI Mini2 about a week before Thanksgiving.
*Trying to land it manually and it moved over, hit the hose real, I pulled up to gain altitude, hit the roof and it landed in a window box which dislodged the battery, The drone didn’t seem to have sustained any lasting damage.
NotMax
Now need to invent the Drotel. Drones go in but they don’t come out.
;)
germy
All these drones flying around.
Keeps me nervous.
NeenerNeener
I bought several little Doctor Who TARDIS drones from ThinkGeek five or six years ago. They flew once and pretty much disintegrated after that.
Baud
Some of the videos I’ve seen of master drone operaters are really nice.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: A reel of real film
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I’ve just taken stills so far with mine, taken before the crash…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: I don’t use film.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
As long as they don’t fly them into an erupting volcano! Oopsy!
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
That’s cool. Now I want a drone.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
It’s worth it for the shots.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: A reel of real SD cards!
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I crashed my Mini2 the first day I had it last year. DJI Care Refresh is a beautiful thing – I had a new drone a few days later.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: True. And good on them for setting it up so they don’t have to recover the SD card.
scav
Apparently we’ve been gifted with an immersive electrical yoyo chez scav. We’ve lost power at least four times since last night.
The neighborhood owes the repair team a generous round of very stiff drinks.
Suzanne
Last year, SuzMom got this really cheap thing that barely qualifies as a drone for Spawn the Younger. Like, it only flies in the house or yard. Anyway, she didn’t have it for 24 hours before it got tangled in her hair. Tears, shrieking, freakout. I hate the gifts my mom buys.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: The problem with a drone, here in LA, is there aren’t many places you can fly it. Glendale and LA City parks don’t allow take-offs or landings nor does LA County parks. State parks don’t have a blanket prohibition, but many do prohibit drones.
mrmoshpotato
@scav:
Just bottles of booze, mixers and an ice machine. ?
NotMax
@scav
Maybe a passel o’ of Texans visiting? Gotta make ’em feel at home, don’tcha know.
//
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I blame Biden.
SiubhanDuinne
Just finished watching “Don’t Look Up.” It has drones. But because I want to avoid spoilers, I’ll say no more about them.
geg6
It’s all men doing this, right? If so, all the more hilarious, if predictable.
debbie
@germy:
Some sound a lot like leaf blowers, so I hate them that much more.
mrmoshpotato
Bears win?! Bears win?!
Baud
Via Reddit, first image from James Webb telescope.
https://i.redd.it/enppk11y8y781.jpg
Rob
I have seen a couple of videos of eagles or hawks intercepting drones and knocking them to the ground.
BretH
Been flying FPV ( First Person View) racing/freestyle drones for years, never an expert but it is the closest I will ever get to being a real pilot. It’s absolute fun and I’m lucky in that I like building and fixing them as much as flying.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Opps.
Booger
@SiubhanDuinne: Loved it!
Rand Careaga
Animals biting drones is all ha-ha-ha until the lithium battery is punctured, at which point the laughter ought to cease. I readily acknowledge that alligators are not among the cuddliest or most charismatic of God’s creatures, but this one didn’t deserve what happened to it, and neither does the family dog.
Sister Golden Bear
I’m heartened that (according an update) Pickles has learned he can jump off the stair bannister to attack the drone from above.
Nature’s cuddly little killing machines.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Heh.
The problem is the mishmash of local and state regulation and that those never make it into any of the apps telling you where you CAN fly. The Feds are pretty straight forward, you can’t fly in National Parks, don’t fly within 5 miles of an airport without getting clearance, and don’t fly where the military does. National wilderness areas are no-go zones as well and most of the apps that tell you where you can fly don’t have them, so that’s a bit of a problem. But the biggest problem is local regulations, every damn city thinks that before you fly your drone in their fair town, everyone’s going to look at their municipal code. It’s nuts.
Patricia Kayden
Ruckus
@Baud:
I thought it had to be something like that but still, that’s good.
Ken
@Sister Golden Bear: Who knows what evolution will shape from this, over the next thirty million years?
Grumpy Old Railroader
Back in the olde days, I spent secret time (I worked nights and kids were in school) building a 2 foot wing span aero glider out of balsa wood and rice paper as a xmas present to youngest son. He loved it. On its maiden flight it flew straight, level and 75 feet before hitting the wooden fence and breaking beyond repair. We both cried. Now we laugh about it. Fun times.
ETA. I launched that maiden flight to show the little boy how it is supposed to be done. I figured it would go about 30-40 feet before landing on the lawn LOL
Caphilldcne
@Baud: ok. That was funny!
StringOnAStick
@Grumpy Old Railroader: Its the thought that…
StringOnAStick
@Patricia Kayden: Yes, let’s see what happens when some enterprising investigator digs into that PPP loan forgiveness. If he has nothing to hide, he should welcome it to clear his name. I say this knowing full well that the chances of ‘nothing to hide’ are very close to zero. Should be fun!
Another Scott
Kids these days… Why back in my day, I had to build a control line model airplane from a balsa kit, paint it, attach the 0.049 cubic inch engine, get the mixture adjusted to stay running, and then wait until dad had a free Saturday to take me to a park to show me how to fly it.
And I got to watch him successfully make a couple of circuits around and then crash it just as he was about to let me try.
(sigh)
I’m sure he felt worse about it than I did. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@Another Scott
But the airplane glue carried quite the kick!
Danielx
@NotMax:
airplane dope!
Danielx
@NotMax:
airplane dope!
206inKY
Eight years ago, my mom gave me—her grown son—a toy drone that terrified my old dog to the point that he crapped the whole floor. This year my wife said fuck it and bought a drone that our kiddo had been begging for. So far no poop has been crapped by doggo, so I’m calling it a success.