Suspicious subjects in car chased away by drone

Maddog · Dec 9, 2015

Soloing said:
You need to move to a better neighborhood... [emoji12]

Actually it is a good neighborhood- I'm trying to keep out the riff-raff.

Soloing · Dec 9, 2015

Maddog said:
Actually it is a good neighborhood- I'm trying to keep out the riff-raff.

If there is riff-raff, than it's not a good neighborhood, ha ha. (Just giving you a hard time... [emoji12])

Yourviewfromabove · Dec 9, 2015

Instead of playing around with a drone I would be getting the hell out of there. Who needs that shit???

J R · Dec 9, 2015

Yeah, we've got a gang problem around here too...

PdxSteve · Dec 9, 2015

That's a good gang problem to have, Jerry. lol

J R · Dec 9, 2015

PdxSteve said:
That's a good gang problem to have, Jerry. lol

Steve,

It wasn't good at the time, I thought they were going to take me down! So I split, figured I'd go somewhere else. I think got they got on the cell and put out the word...

Soloing · Dec 9, 2015

Maddog, you should mount a bag with dog sh*t underneath the Solo, and dumb that on the car, ha ha.

EDIT: Where is the accessory bay when you need it?!

Chuck · Dec 9, 2015

I think the word is out, Jerry. The head man, "Beaks", has got a contract out on your Solo, and he is one step ahead of you and your flying areas. Both places look great to fly in. In the first one, is that water always that muddy, or was that runoff from rain or something?

Maddog · Dec 9, 2015

Soloing said:
Maddog, you should mount a bag with dog sh*t underneath the Solo, and dumb that on the car, ha ha.

EDIT: Where is the accessory bay when you need it?!

That sounds like a pretty crappy idea!

J R · Dec 9, 2015

Chuck said:
I think the word is out, Jerry. The head man, "Beaks", has got a contract out on your Solo, and he is one step ahead of you and your flying areas. Both places look great to fly in. In the first one, is that water always that muddy, or was that runoff from rain or something?

Chuck,

Yeah, I think the contract is out. Run-off from the flood but it's the Big Sioux River and it's pretty dirty anyway.

Jerry

Chuck · Dec 9, 2015

It sure was muddy. Still a pretty place to fly. Just watch your back....lol

Doug Benson · Dec 10, 2015

No that's the problem, I live in a nice quiet neighborhood and its nice and dark at the end of my street, I'm going to get the PolarPro Head Light system and use a flashing warning on my phone that says POLICE CALLED! and attach to Solo and send that down the road! I will make a video and post it.

Samphoto · Dec 12, 2015

Maddog said:
I live at the entrance of a cul-de-sac and have a through street on the side of my house. This section of street is only a half block long. The only thing facing the street are the block side walls of the houses- no way to enter a home from here. There is no reason to park here as people visiting pull around the corner to the front of the house they are visiting.

One of my security cameras faces this area. For several months I have seen cars park here late at night and shut their lights off. Nobody gets out of the cars. I have discovered some people are doing drugs and sometimes the wild thing right on the side of my house.

Late last night another car arrived, backed up away from the street light, parked and shut its lights off. After several minutes I decided it was time for a "drone-intervention".
Solo is in for RMA, so I grabbed my Syma X8C which is modded with strobing red, green, and white led's. I took off from my back yard, rose vertically to about 50 feet and slowly moved over the top of the car. I descended to about 20 feet AGL, while moving towards the front of the car. From here, the occupants could hear the roar of the motors and had a sky full of flashing lights in front of them.

After a few seconds, the engine fired up and the car took off without its lights. It raced out of the neighborhood and never returned! I wonder if the strobing white light made them think they were being photographed? I don't know what they thought but they couldn't leave fast enough! Very funny!

Love it! Going to have to try that sometime.

DroneNerd702 · Dec 13, 2015

RichWest said:
They do and they do....Mexico Drug Trafficking: Drone Carries 28 Pounds of Heroin Across Border To US

Went to California over the summer, told the kids it was sage....from all the fires there.

Snippet from a reading of that article: "Small drones are able to fly for an hour and travel as far as five miles".

Grrr. That's what I would have expected with the buck 90 spent on the huge Solo battery. But, no. We get 15 to 20 minutes. Grrr. Grrrrrr.