Posted on 02/01/2016 4:29:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
Police have joined forces with Guard From Above, a raptor-training security firm based in the Hague, to keep wayward drones from causing trouble
As the use of drones increasingly worries everyone from firefighters and air traffic control to law enforcement, Netherlands’ national police have aligned themselves with a group that hates flying robots on principle: the bald eagle.
Dutch police have joined forces with Guard From Above, a raptor-training security firm based in the Hague, to keep wayward drones from causing trouble by snatching them out of the sky.
Guard From Above’s chief executive officer Sjoerd Hoogendoorn described the project in a press release as “a low-tech solution for a high-tech problem.†He and the company’s chief operating officer, Ben de Keijzer, train birds of prey to catch unauthorized unmanned vehicles – Hoogendoorn’s background is in private security, de Keijzer’s is in bird-handling and training.
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You could train birds to take down birds.
Dang, I’ve gotten cut up by my $25 indoor drone. How do they do it?
Cheech and Chong kamakazi parody comes to mind ...
Control freak government. Will the van containing the little helmet wearing eagle careen through town to get to the area of the drone within the 15 or 20 minute flight time on the drone?
Or will there be a little junior low rent norad complete with prepositioned eagles across the land, ready to scramble?
Lame.
The Dutch need to get a handle on the Drone Market Loop hole.
Why does Obama have to be the leader on this important stuff?
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Not necessarily. Do you want enviro activist drones following you all over your property so that they can scream about anything? I don't. Do you want lawyers peering in your windows, paparazzi watching you hot tub with your wife, or "child welfare" lawyers watching you teach your bratty kid a hard lesson?
If so, how can a bird tell the difference?
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