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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by ohfuckoff on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:35PM (#9802310)
> It's pretty sad that the owner of the $1200 flying machine is depicted as the perpetrator of a planned crime.

No, he's depicted, accurlate, as the perpetrator of a crime. That crime was running after the accident.

This guy gives responsible drone owners a real problem.

If I crash my drone into something, I expect to be responsible for it. My homeowner's insurance includes coverage for injuries caused by my drone; a fact I verified specifically because I am responsible.

This guy just took off and ran. That's weak; criminally weak.

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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by melling on Monday June 29, 2015 @10:23PM (#9802498)
It's not a planned crime but we all know someone is going to accidentally get killed sooner than later. In fact, I'm on the record on HN 30 days ago when a jet almost hit a drone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9630862

"It' only a matter of time before someone gets killed. The person responsible will be sorry and explain that he (it will be a he) didn't realize the repercussions."

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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by peteretep on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:57PM (#9802412) 

    > accurlate
I was really really hoping that was a real word
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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by autokad on Monday June 29, 2015 @11:32PM (#9802765)
wow your homeowners insurance covers that? i guess if i ever get one i'll have to add that on
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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by baddox on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:38PM (#9802329)
It's not clear that he ran. Given that he clearly did not have control over the aircraft, it might have been well out of view.
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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by alienasa on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:40PM (#9802333)
Usually when you lose sight of a $1200 piece of technology, you go find it, and then attempt to recover it.
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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by joshrotenberg on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:46PM (#9802366)
And then if you see it caused an injury and/or damage, you take responsibility and cooperate.
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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by baddox on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @04:45AM (#9803800)
Absolutely. It's not clear how long the victim and/or authorities waited around for him to show up.
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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by dzhiurgis on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:54PM (#9802401)
Might be not the best idea to do when you have an angry crowd around you. Second option is calling cops and possibly getting into trouble even if nothing happened. Very few people would actually do it, but that is the right thing to do when you've been risking flying over a crowd.
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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by JustSomeNobody on Monday June 29, 2015 @10:39PM (#9802564)
Angry crowd? I see no mention of an angry crowd. What we do know is the operator of the drone was careless and allegedly ran away from the scene of an accident.
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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by zobzu on Monday June 29, 2015 @10:15PM (#9802476)
Stuff hit people every day. People run away from it everyday, and sometimes get caught. But you only hear about it if its a toy "drone", and if possible, it's lacking details.
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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by pavel_lishin on Monday June 29, 2015 @10:50PM (#9802608)
I beg to differ:

http://kxan.com/2015/06/23/3-more-rock-throwing-cases-report...

http://meredithaz.worldnow.com/story/28577622/teen-accused-o...

http://fox2now.com/2015/06/16/police-investigating-vehicles-...

http://www.kptv.com/story/28388107/two-in-custody-in-connect...

And that's just rocks thrown at cars. Just because you don't hear about it doesn't mean it's not reported, or that it doesn't happen often.

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Re:Woman Knocked Unconscious at Parade by Falling Drone by zobzu on Monday June 29, 2015 @10:54PM (#9802624)
"on hacker news"
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