Just your local sheriff and trusted deputies. And their howitzer and manpads and...
Peace officers no doubt.
Posted on 04/26/2014 6:36:57 AM PDT by servantboy777
MCSO DRONE CRASHES INTO LAKE CONROE Friday morning, during training exercises with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Drone, something went wrong and it crashed into Lake Conroe. Divers from the Montgomery County Precinct 1 Dive Team spent much of the day searching the bottom of Lake Conroe for the almost $300,000 drone helicopter.
The drone which was purchased by Montgomery County in 2011 was almost entirely funded by Homeland Security Grants which were specifically designated for the purchase of drones.
Nice drone you got there. It’d be a shame if anything were to happen to it, Sheriff.
Funny as hell. The first one crashed into their own Bearcat SWAT van. lol
Lovin it. Kevin Brady, my worthless representative was on hand to dedicate this new drone a while back. Made sure this morning to send him the report and express that I was sure glad it crashed into the lake rather than into a crowd at the fair.
Well...it’s at the bottom of Lake Conroe now. hehe
Seriously...are the guys driving these things licensed like pilots?
Wonder if it got hacked? Not too difficult from what I hear. It’s been done before:
Kirk: “With this code I’m going to order Reliant to lower its shields.”
Anyway, $300,000 just went kerplunk. Again. Anyone see a pattern?
Just your local sheriff and trusted deputies. And their howitzer and manpads and...
Peace officers no doubt.
Little boys with big boy toys
I'm sitting in my house in Conroe laughing about this drone crashing in Lake Conroe which is about 5 miles from my house. This isn't the first time I've laughed about a drone in this county.
Yes, it's true, Homeland Security gave us a drone, back then I read the first one given to a Sheriff's department in the USA. The big day arrived, I read about it in the Houston Chronicle and the Conroe Courier, both of them on line shortly after it happened. This was a year or more ago, don't remember.
Everyone was gathered somewhere in Houston for the big event/effect of the sheriff getting the drone - but, gee, one has to demonstrate the drone to get the full effect of this huge gift, before it is given to us, right?. Well, off it went AND CRASHED, totally destroyed. Damn, no drone. Had to wait until HS could send another one.
Now, this present one has crashed - not surprised. Just glad it didn't hit my house. I think I recall when we were supposed to get that first one, a certain person was to be in charge of the drone, be the master of the flight of the thing. I think we don't need a drone - I prefer my roof in tact.
Sheriff’s Office drone takes dive, gets lost in Lake Conroe
From the local paper:
snip
This isn’t the first time the Sheriff’s drone has gone
awry. In March o2012, it was 15 feet off the ground when
the helicopter started to oscillate.
The aircraft’s rotor blades clipped a nearby SWAT truck,
inflicting damage before crashing.
end snip
It may be searching the bottom for all those assault rifles and other weapons people seem to be losing in terrible boating accidents. Those accidents are so common.
MIlitarized Police. Big government’s way around the Posse Comitatus Act.
I’m calling for the Government Employee Surveillance Program where all government employees are monitored 24/7 by the public.
Yes, and the Malaysian flight is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, for those who believe what they are told to believe by the authorities.
What’s the drone’s black box telling’em? /s
Is that why they need speed traps and such in order to collect money and buy toys such as this? Ridiculous.
Just how close to that Drone Helicopter do you need to be in order to read the “KEEP BACK 1000FT.” warning?
When they retrieve this thing from the lake they may discover some holes punched through it that weren’t there when it took off.
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