Drone spotted hovering over west Oakland - No word on who it belongs to or what it was doing

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Drone spotted hovering over west Oakland - No word on who it belongs to or what it was doing - http://bit.ly/11ysGUp


https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/02/08/18731689.php

On February 8th, 2013 at 3:50 pm a drone was sighted hovering above a neighborhood in West Oakland. There didn't seem to be a focus, it just maintained it's position above properties. It is not known at this point what agency or individual was operating the craft.

(Picture and a short video at the link.)

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Welcome to the Police State, slipped in right under your nose.

Our government said 9/11 would "change everything."

[longship]

2. Just north of Silicon Valley.

High tech firms all over the place. So-called drones are iconic geek hardware.

High school kids all over the world are hacking them together with off the shelf stuff for next to no cost. One guy sent a balloon into near space over the UK for a couple hundred bucks.

This tech is inexpensive, ubiquitous, and fairly easy to implement.

There will be no stopping this.

[Live and Learn]

3. +1 nt

[Downwinder]

5. I'm just surprised there haven't been any robberies by drone.

[intaglio]

4. You mean a hexacopter that you can buy from many manufacturers

like those provided by Droidworx ($1200 plus shipping) or U-drones($765 plus) or any of them found by an image search for "hexacopter"
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hexacopter&hl=en&client=opera&tbo=u&channel=suggest&biw=1322&bih=1004&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=EXAXUYDTFPKr0AX8lIDoBQ&ved=0CEQQsAQ

Or to put it another way OOOOOOH!!!11!eleventyone Scary Drones!!!eleventyone!!

[Buzz Clik]

6. ..

[Mojorabbit]

9. Good one! nt

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. Report it to the FAA as a hazard

Also since it was clear what brand it was, jam the GCS frequency...it is not all that hard

[greytdemocrat]

8. Damn!!!

It ended up in Oakland??? I knew I should have hit the Self-Destruct!!!!