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Thursday, 15 March 2018

Drones helping to protect animals from poachers

They'd be more effective with tasers attached.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-41672803/drones-are-being-used-to-protect-elephants-and-rhinos-from-poachers
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4 comments:

  1. Aaron Gilliland15 March 2018 at 13:46

    Tasers is generous.

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  2. Rhys Taylor15 March 2018 at 13:51

    Lasers would also be acceptable. Or projectile razors. Or laser-guided razor tasers.

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  3. Oliver Hamilton15 March 2018 at 14:17

    Why don't we just start a crowdfunding campaign to buy these folks a Predator surveillance drone with a stretch goal of a full-blown Reaper drone with some hellfire missiles?

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  4. Rhys Taylor15 March 2018 at 15:38

    ... if the laser razor taser doesn't make them frown, the official fissile missile will take them down.

    ... okay, I'll stop.

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