Wierd, Unknown Drone Photographed Hovering Over Oakland Neighborhoods

Reaganite Republican ^ | 12 February 2013 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Isn't it neat living in a faceless, futuristic police state? 

East Germany would have KILLED for just one of these things!

The primary suspect in this case would be the Oakland-area Alameda County Sheriff's Department, who recently released a statement
re. the department's (rapidly) evolving policy (-here-) regarding aerial drones, which they refer to in army-speak as an sUAS, or 'small Unmanned Aircraft System'... 

Seems they're already rather-broadly approved within Alameda County for the following missions:

• Post-incident crime scene preservation and documentation
• Explosive ordinance disposal missions
• Response to hazardous materials spills
• Search and Rescue missions
• Public safety and life preservation missions to include barricaded suspects, hostage situations, active shooters, apprehension of armed and dangerous and/or violent fleeing suspects, and high-risk warrants
• Disaster response and recovery, to include natural and man-caused disasters incl. a full overview of a disaster area for post-incidental analysis and documentation
• Training missions as authorized by the Training Certificate of Authorization
• In response to specific requests from local, state, or federal fire authorities
• When there is probable cause to believe that (1) the sUAS will record images of a place, thing, condition, or event; and (2) that those images would be relevant in proving that a certain felony had occurred or is occurring, or that a particular person committed or is committing a certain felony and use of the sUAS does not infringe upon the reasonable expectation of privacy
• pursuant to a search warrant

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ACAD   NOMBY (Not Over My Back Yard)   Intoon

[PLMerite]

Does it have whiskers and a tail?

You knew it was coming.

[Boogieman]

I think those are the landing gear.

[frankenMonkey]

It's our own little arms race all over again...Estes Rockest



and you can even upgrade your game with these:

[Harold Shea]

I`m thinking about getting one just for

checking the cows quickly at calving time.

Bet it will be used to check row crops as well.

A pretty cool invention for us that wouldn`t

abuse privacy of others.

There are many ways this thing could dangerous.

Airports,sub-stations,tank farms,ball games

[huldah1776]

fed building. I was taking pics for a photo class of the flags a block away (small city) and the guard came out to see what I was doing.

I like the sacrificial helo idea—set it with self-destruct pretty fireworks.

[Reaganite Republican]

Good point, if they can’t tell from 200 yds away how can they seen who to shoot from a grainy drone pic

[Reaganite Republican]

THAT’s it

[wxgesr]

Probably line of sight (LOS) dependent upon height of TX and RX.

[reed13k]

bfl

[Georgia Girl 2]

I predict a new shooting competition call “sporting Drones” will soon commence. Hold muh beer.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I wonder if some wit could create a “Drone Killers Club”, in which individuals with a hunting rifle with scope, hopefully silenced, a video camera, and a place of concealment, do their part to make such drone experiments and use as expensive as possible.

I’m sure some means could be found to edit such footage to make it untraceable, and to anonymously post it to the Internet.

In Britain, such saboteurs of road speed cameras have racked up a thousand or more “kills”. After multiple pages were posted showing burned cameras, the government had enough, and shut down the website. Impotent.

[gundog]

Or landing gear. Antenae could be smaller, and mor e effective if Oriented vertically. There was ashootin’ war with Oakland Gangs. Probably just keeping an eye on things.

[Hot Tabasco]

Doesn’t appear to be armored... just sayin’...

You're right, it's not.....

[Chode]

belongs to some tv news outfit...

[Seizethecarp]

“Makes a person wonder if Moslems in the US already have some form of weaponized drones that could say carry a biological agent into a theme park or something.”

FBI has already stung a home-grown jihadi, Rezwan Ferdhaus, who obtained two autonomous GPS-guided drones and scoped out an attack on the Pentagon and Capitol with the drones loaded with C4.

[KeyLargo]

posted on February 13, 2013 byGary DeMar
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