Drone Strikes Space Needle As Workers Set Up Fireworks Display

[Eugene]

Source: KING-TV

Drone Strikes Space Needle As Workers Set Up Fireworks Display

By KING

Video has been recovered from a drone that crashed into Seattle's Space Needle on the afternoon of New Year's Eve. It happened as pyrotechnicians set up for the T-Mobile "New Year's at the Needle" fireworks display, which went off at midnight on New Year's Day. A Space Needle spokesperson says the drone landed on the roof, 575 feet above ground.

Published at 10:18 AM EST on Jan 12, 2017 | Updated at 11:47 AM EST on Jan 12, 2017

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Drone-Strikes-Space-Needle-As-Workers-Set-Up-Fireworks-Display-410513435.html

[scscholar]

1. Drones are a toy of the rich...

and they need to be banned.

[PoliticAverse]

2. They're not that expensive. n/t

[scscholar]

3. A local paper reported this was a $4kk drone...

so I disagree with your.

[PoliticAverse]

4. Even $4k doesn't exclude the average person from owning such a thing...

(people spend that much on trips and hobbies and have you seen what cars cost?). But you can get many drones under $400.

[scscholar]

5. As someone that has never taken a vacation as an adult...

or never taken a "family" vacation that cost that much, $4k is out of the reach of a normal person. I haven't even been able to save that much my entire adult life.

[X_Digger]

8. So you admit you're not a normal person, then tell us what a normal person can afford?

Drones are available at the corner gas station for < $40.

Under what basis in law does the government have the ability to ban drones?

[KittyWampus]

9. They cost about $100 on Amazon. And some are around $35

[scscholar]

10. A local article I read said this was a $1.2k drone...

so that is a toy of the rich.

[jmg257]

11. Shit - if $1200 constitutes "toys for the rich", you'll be banning a LOT of cool stuff!

[KT2000]

6. I suppose the owner gave

consideration to how this stupid act could affect the safety of the people on the Needle who were setting up fireworks.

[hunter]

7. Finders keepers?

When I was a kid my dad found a weather balloon transponder on one of his fishing trips.

It had a return mail label on it, but my dad let me open it up, peek inside, and put it back together before we mailed it back.

Joy!

I'd probably still do the same with most anything that falls out of the sky.

[MagickMuffin]

12. Thx Obama