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A woman thought she was bathing alone in her apartment. When she looked out the window a police drone was staring back (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

South Park already covered this

[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Southpark is finally old enough that we went from "Simpsons did it" to "Southpark did it"

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 33 points 4 days ago (3 children)

When contacted, Denver police admitted that the drone belonged to them and was part of a four-month first responder program, on the way to the scene of a call about a suicidal person near to the apartment.

Can someone tell me what a drone could do to help a suicidal person?

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

Record the flip, of course /s

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Attach itself to the ground below and spin the rotors really fast to cause an updraft that prevents them from hitting the ground?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Or causes a lot of dismemberment.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Make them jump immediately

[–] diykeyboards@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Blue Thunder IRL

Man I'm old.

[–] digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

For some reason I starting humming the Air Wolf theme. Different helicopter.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Its what I thought of as well and at least I'm not a fetus ;)

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Usually the altitude indicates height above the home point, so if the police launched from down the hill, ascended to 200ft, and flew towards the hill, the drone would lose distance between the ground and the drone while still showing "200 ft"

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I guess the footage is recorded and the police need to get investigated for this.