Hmmm.

I'm black, but my wife did anoint me to the position of "honorary redneck" some time ago. Neighbor has stopped with the drone overflights of my property, but still, you're giving me ideas...

Be careful as far as the FAA is concerned drones get the same legal protection as a plane with people in them so messing with them is legally hazardous.

I know. Hence the laser: blind the camera first and they can't prove that it didn't mysteriously drop out of the sky as soon as it passed the property line.

Go get em cowboy!

I feel obliged to mention that this does feature prominently in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars trilogy. The single most important piece of infrastructure on Mars is a space elevator, but not everyone on the planet is happy with how the owners of the space elevator are running things.

Oh yes: https://youtu.be/xNmbvaUzC8Q

This is why we can't have nice things

It's rare to have such a clear illustration of the difference between intelligence and wisdom.

There's no way this stuff isn't giving the secret service nightmares.

This guy set ablaze the inside of a vehicle through closed windows from a significant distance.

I had to look it up, because I thought that was what "Reason" was in Snowcrash.

I was mistaken: Reason was a railgun.

The weird part of reason is it is also (in the family of) a mini gun with it's multiple rotating barrels.

Almost a different Funranium post: https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2022/12/choose-your-own-radiat...