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From the Washington Post:
Christopher Schmidt was flying a quadcopter with a camera attached to it at Magazine Beach Park in Cambridge, Mass., and taking in views of the Boston skyline when a hawk decided to take back its airspace.
Magazine Beach, incidentally, has that name because its first use as a public utility was to store individual households’ and visiting ships’ gunpowder stocks — it being considered far too risky, in the days of the Founding Fathers, to keep such dangerously combustible material in private homes. Big gubmint innerferince!, Second Amendment absolutists…
ETA: Schmidt was on the late local news. The quadcopter is fine (he turned off the propellers when he saw the hawk hit so it wouldn’t be injured), but its battery pack got knocked loose, so he was surprised the video made it!
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Apart from marveling at changing styles and mores, what’s on the agenda for the start of the weekend?
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