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Colorado town considers licensing people to "hunt drones"

Posted by Chris Anderson on July 18, 2013 at 1:49pm

Deer Trail Mayor Franks Fields displays proper drone-hunting technique. (Amanda Kost, 7NEWS)

Not sure if this says more about public perceptions of drones or about Colorado, but FWIW:

Deer Trail's town board will vote Aug. 6 on an ordinance that would create drone-hunting licenses and offer $100 bounties for unmanned aerial vehicles.

"We do not want drones in town," said Phillip Steel, the resident who drafted the ordinance. "They fly in town, they get shot down."

Even though it's against the law to destroy federal property, Steel's proposed ordinance outlines weapons, ammunition, rules of engagement, techniques and bounties for drone hunting.

Drone-hunting licenses would be issued without a background investigation and on an anonymous basis. Applicants would have to be at least 21 years old and be able to "read and understand English."

(Thanks, Eric)

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Krzysztof Bosak July 22, 2013 at 10:33am

I am issuing licences to drop legal quantities of cluser-buster ammunition in well-documented retaliation cases. Apply now!
Art July 22, 2013 at 6:42am

@John Arne Birkeland

"But that doesn't mean we feel the need to own or carry weapons privately."

Had your countrymen felt differently about that may be your country haven't been so easily taken over by Nazies back in WWI. As Friedrich Hegel said: "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
Art July 22, 2013 at 5:27am

@HeliStorm @SgtRic Nothing you wrote contradicts my statement: " Shotguns don't shoot bullets" Yes you can shoot slugs, you can even shoot razor blades, incinerating round and who knows what else. But you can't shoot bullets.
HeliStorm July 20, 2013 at 9:40pm

Having just watched Sharknado, I think this mayor is worrying about the wrong flying things in his airspace. In my opinion, Sharknados now represent the single largest threat to American safety.
BluSky1 July 20, 2013 at 9:11pm

FAA warns public against shooting guns at drones

http://news.yahoo.com/faa-warns-public-against-shooting-guns-drones...

That's right don't shoot at my Drones or ill make ones that can shoot back. When I read about this I imagined the Tusken Raiders from star-wars who shoot at the pod racers for fun.... and started LoL
Crashpilot1000 July 20, 2013 at 2:47pm

That whole stuff is so rediculous that even my last post seems to be on topic. Even the FAA has a clear (and lame and normal) sight of that subject like posted by Thomas Coyle the third. I feel very sorry for that deerpath city that their last event was in 1869. And I am very happy and thankful that I learned that the rodeo was invented there!! I wouldn't have known any other way - no joke here - it really broadened my horizon. One fine day I will probably drive over there and fly my old gaui 330 there (and even attach a cam to it so that it could be called something like a drone) and urge the mayor there to shoot it down for free so that city gets something else than 19th century stuff going on. Chances are that they would shoot me instead of the drone for some stupid German word on my lips for being a suspected member of the German Kaiserreich that lasted from 1871 till 1918 (that nazi stuff was later - and my family suffered a lot of that - but no politics here....).

- Some gametitle could be "It came from above" like the old amiga title "It came from the desert"
TenzinR July 20, 2013 at 10:36am

If you make it a game, make sure there are small people on the ground trying to take you out as you do your data collection. The boss can be the mayor who comes out with his sherrif and reads you their town mandates.
Crashpilot1000 July 20, 2013 at 9:55am

Great work oliver!!

I think the trophy wall will look like this now:
HeliStorm July 20, 2013 at 7:40am

Oliver...that looks like a video game. Call it, Drone Control or something. Played similar to the flight control games. I have also thought an 8bit rehash of Duck Hunt called Drone Hunt. And, of course, any variations on the Cabella's Big Game series of games.
Oliver July 19, 2013 at 11:58pm

BREAKING NEWS!

Mayor Frankie "Chicken Little" Frankenstein of Deer Fart, Co. is right after all, but he's too late! We have just intercepted the above image from a Global Hawk that was on its daily routine outhouse inspection patrol. It looks like the mayor's worst nightmare is coming true as dirty red commie hippie drones, in a huge swarm, are invading the charming hamlet and soon will be plunging down chimneys and into bathrooms and bedrooms, cameras blazing. The residents, trapped like rats in the four-block wide town wedged between the interstate and a railroad corridor, will only be able to shake tiny fists of fury at the sky as every bit of the most intimate minutiae of their existence, right down to the contents of their laundry baskets, is instantly uploaded to Facebook where a drooling, slavering world will pounce on it like a pack of hounds shredding a bunny rabbit! O, the Horror!!