A hard lesson learned..
  • 356 points zero_lies_tolerated

    r/killthecamerman

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    120 points mythisme

    Probably a broken shard from the propellor did… lol

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    -17 points Boncester2018

    I hope so.

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    16 points MCarooney

    lmao calm down there

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  • 1781 points TheXurophobe

    that's an expensive piece of kit to have applied no situational awareness to... what did they think would happen when the rotors got close to the billowy fabric or bush? 🙃

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    486 points dominik1928

    Nothing... they thought nothing would happen...

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    222 points WheelsOnFire_

    Nothing… they thought nothing would happen…

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    55 points green_hipster

    Nothing… they thought

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    29 points goodeyemighty

    Nothing…they

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    35 points jonnyl3

    Nothing...

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    2 points fhs

    Drr.drr..drr...

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    3 points MaybeABot31416

    …

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    4 points ScottyMo1

    .

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    15 points _felixh_

     

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    -16 points DaRealMexicanTrucker

    No

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    13 points Tofandel

    ⠀

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    4 points WeenisPeiner

    oN

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    4 points tacticalfp

    …gnihtoN

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    2 points AdJust6959

    I think they borrowed that from their aunt

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    30 points imhereforthevotes

    Yeah they didn't think is the issue.

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    21 points kn33

    "Why did you take off there?"
    "well, I didn't think -"
    "Imma stop you right there."

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    13 points notfromchicago

    We have one of similar size at work and I'm pretty sure they paid north of $30k for it.

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    1 points qpv

    Thats cool. What kind of work?

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    7 points notfromchicago

    It's used for applying pesticide/herbicide/fungicide on crops. It's the future of agriculture. You can apply less chemical in exactly the places needed.

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    2 points qpv

    Oh right yes. Do you get to operate it? Does it require certification? Hope you don't mind the questions, I just bought my first little drone so its piqued my interest.

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    5 points notfromchicago

    I don't operate it. Yes you have to be licensed by the FAA to fly it. You also have to be licensed by the state for applying chemicals from an aircraft.

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    2 points qpv

    That makes sense. Cool to be part of, thanks for sharing.

    I'm in construction and there's tech coming (that will require strict regs to preserve safe usage) utilizing drone tech for various practices. Large scale lifts to remote crane lift lines and that sort of thing. Haven't seen it used yet aside from videos from overseas.

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    11 points Ardal

    looking at the back of his leg at the end of the video it appears he's learned that lesson twice now lol

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    1 points lastweek_monday

    Thats just the design of his pants.

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    4 points bartbartholomew

    I was honestly expecting the ground effect to be strong enough to overturn it. Everything here was dumb.

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    2 points marino1310

    I don’t think they expected that much rotor wash. It doesn’t even do that much until it gets right inline with the drapes

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    1 points PyroAvok

    Even the small DIJ Mavics have some serious down draft.

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    1 points Im_Balto

    But rotors push not pull right????!!!!!

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    1 points HugSized

    They didn't get that far in their thought process.

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    1 points towerfella

    Who wants to bet this is a scammer-boss’s house, and he just bought a new toy..?..

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    -16 points MigitAs

    What do you expect of people who literally live in the jungle

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  • 714 points kirikovich

    money cant fix stupid 🤷‍♀️

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    28 points FullChocolate3138

    But having enough money can fix stupid mistakes

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    12 points depressed_fatcat69

    Unless they killed someone

    Edit: nvm it fixes that too if u have enough

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    1 points bourbonwelfare

    Oh it can. 

    *The sound of an assassins silencer being screwed on intensifies. 

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    -39 points [deleted]

    [deleted]

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    23 points Bender_2024

    The only difference is what looks like a cable of some sort is there in the second shot. I simply don't think the camera panned back far enough the first time.

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    11 points FackinJerq

    It’s amazing how people cannot differentiate AI from reality… yet it’s only gonna get better and worse at the same time.

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    27 points purplepatch

    Every video has comments saying it’s AI. Maybe they’re AI comments. 

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    3 points snorkelvretervreter

    Soon it's actually likely AI as they train on reddit conversations.

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    15 points -DementedAvenger-

    Looks the same to me. The wall has some little growth and dark streaks next to the pilot, and the cameraperson steps back a few steps. The wall has all of the same growth as before, it’s just up near/in-front-of the pilot.

    I’m not saying it’s a real video, but I don’t believe the wall is the tell that you think it is.

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    4 points leeuwerik

    We see a different part of the wall because the camera follows the drone (well sort of follows).

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    4 points manshowerdan

    Its def not ai

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    -14 points [deleted]

    [deleted]

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    13 points MPolygon

    They don't. The cameraman just moved further back. The plants are still there

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    3 points Wactout

    Edit: forgot to say I agree.

    I agree. Went over a couple times. Camera man walked back.

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    2 points eragonawesome2

    I'm almost certain video is older than AI generated video. I remember showing this to my roommate, and I haven't had a roommate in 5 years

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  • 139 points MidnightPandaX

    r/thatlookedexpensive

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  • 83 points Successful-Purple-54

    Damn camera man. I wanted to see it not stick the landing.

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  • 135 points woodenmetalman

    r/abruptstupidity

    Wow, what a colossally stupid move 😂

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  • 57 points pianomasian

    I guess if you're going to be this stupid, it's good to have that much money. Congrats for him I guess?

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    72 points Sauce4243

    Drones like this aren’t toys they are for commercial business use normally farms and shit like that. So it’s most likely either a company owned drone and he just pilots it, or his own drone that he uses for work to make money.

    In other words he is having a really shit day

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    12 points ParticularBreath6146

    I think this one might be a commercial delivery drone; it has a storage box as its payload. In mountainous places like this, they are often used to transport things to remote places where you can't drive a car.

    But yeah, commercial drones are most often used in agriculture to spray chemicals and seed. They can be very expensive, like upwards of $40,000 sometimes.

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    7 points Sauce4243

    Yea think your right, I did my drone licence course and one of the guys in the class bought a chem spraying drone think a 50kg payload one was about &50,000 Aus for the drone alone before getting all the other attachments

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    1 points jonnyl3

    You don't know if the pilot is the owner

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  • 29 points Fourian_Official

    dude that's a huge drone

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    13 points sublimoon

    75kg of drone

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    2 points Metrix145

    That's what she said

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  • 19 points BoliverTShagnasty

    Thank you for not leaving a minute of nothing video until the Abrupt part. Short and to the point!

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  • 19 points jemist101

    Man, I wanted to see the aftermath carnage.

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  • 11 points CampPineCone

    "What's your clearance, Clarence?"

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    9 points ChrisV2323

    "What's our vector, Victor?

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    7 points -Sui-

    "Roger, Roger!"

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  • 11 points J_Mugen

    What kind of idiot pick that kind of location, instead of an remote open field.

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  • 8 points [deleted]

    [deleted]

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    5 points wakaru1902

    It's probably the same to him like a S5 toy for you and me.

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  • 6 points ew435890

    I fly a drone for work pretty regularly, and I immediately knew something bad was going to happen in that confined space. The drone I fly is like the size of a soccer ball, and I wouldn't even launch that tiny thing in a confined space like that.

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  • 5 points cheturo

    I am not a drone expert and I anticipated what was going to happen.

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  • 9 points SpicyPringlez

    You have to remember you're in a country where they have their curtains outside

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  • 4 points Far_Out_6and_2

    Thats a big drone wtf

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  • 3 points Creepyman007

    Couldn't they find any narrower road/place?

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  • 3 points StarConsumate

    About 40k

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  • 7 points Emotional-Computer66

    Hi i’m Johnny Knoxville, and welcome to Jack Ass.

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    3 points MotherofLuke

    More like Roter Ass

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  • 2 points BroaxXx

    I never flew a drone and even I knew this a horribly stupid idea.

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  • 2 points Dry_Excitement8002

    I bet they will never learn from these kind of mistakes because they’re too old to be this stupid. Not saying that the new drone will overcome the same thing but maybe he will look in the barrel of a gun after it did not fire..

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  • 2 points jblock14

    This is all Carols fault

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  • 2 points Oklusion

    Wasp over there

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    1 points SamuraiManbun

    I swear on everything I love i flicked my thumb through the comments hoping I would see an arc raiders reference and I stopped on your comment.

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  • 2 points Thalenra

    Haha, cauliflower beef? Sounds like a veggie revenge plot gone wrong.

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  • 2 points AdCommercial6714

    There is a blanket ban on drones in that country

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  • 2 points notimeforspac_s

    Are you sure you don't more spac..

    Never mind

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  • 8 points [deleted]

    [deleted]

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    27 points -DementedAvenger-

    That isn’t necessarily AI… compression does that too.

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    2 points stupidcookface

    The jeans at the end frame have a weird red spot on the back of the thigh with like a weird hole looking cutout. Feels like ai. Cameraman also sucked, could've been part of the prompt so it wouldn't be as easy to spot the ai vid

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    13 points [deleted]

    this comment is AI

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    2 points MyLiminalLife

    Something about it does feel off

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    -1 points manshowerdan

    Def not ai

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    -18 points raaneholmg

    The entire left wall is replaced by a new one in the same style between the first and last shot.

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    16 points Tofandel

    Not everything has to be AI. People can be stupid as well. I went frame by frame and could not find any evidence of AI. Only terrible compression

    The cameraman did a few steps backwards which are not very visible because the video is very well stabilised but you can see for example that these 3 plants in the beginning are still there in the end and you can compare the texture of the wall under them and the branches and everything also matches.

    I haven't seen anything disappear or appear out of nowhere and the frames are consistent

    https://imgur.com/a/MTR1FTl

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    7 points Sauce4243

    The camera man step back as the drone goes to take off. The three plants sticking out of the wall can be seen at the end only they are now top corner of the shot instead of centre.

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  • 1 points kdesi_kdosi

    i saw that coming with my eyes closed

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    -8 points Z3rc

    Bro its AI, you saw nothing. Need an example? Where did the rest of that orange hose go after the liftoff?

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    5 points Tofandel

    It's not a hose.. It's a cable that provides the power to the drone and you can see the drone lift that cable in the video.. And also it's still there for the entire duration of the video. So I don't know what you're talking about

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  • 2 points Quiet-Macaron-8329

    That looks a little fake....

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  • 1 points Murkiporte

    How much does it cost? 50k$? More?

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    5 points komay

    DJI Agras T50 ~$20k usd

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    -11 points Z3rc

    Nothing, it's AI

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    3 points Murkiporte

    Prove it

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    -8 points Z3rc

    See the orange hose under it? Where does half of it go after liftoff? The Limbo?

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    3 points Murkiporte

    I don't see anything wrong with it. I think you troll

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    1 points Aptosauras

    See the orange hose under it? Where does half of it go after liftoff?

    I'm mobile so it's hard to see, but that cord and bundle of cord appears to be a tether and the cord begins to lift with the drone because it's attached to the underside.

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  • 1 points amessmann

    Seems like it could've been prevented.

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  • 1 points Bones-1989

    First they flew it into a truck, now they're crashing it into awnings...

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  • 1 points dogstyles

    dude failed one task he was assigned.

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  • 1 points edebby

    I laughed so hard on that dumbass that coffee came through my nose

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  • 1 points thespice

    Carving out a place for yourself in the landscaping business I see.

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  • 1 points THOT_Patroller-13

    It will go to shit! It will go to shit! Go to shit! It will!

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  • 1 points Eth251201

    Absolute fucking spastics

    Really pissed me off, such a cool drone too

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  • 1 points dirk_funk

    oh shit i just chortled

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  • 1 points MechanicalAxe

    Looks like ot got ahold of the back of his pants too.

    Why wouldn't you put rotor guards on a piece this expensive?

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  • 1 points Super_Comfort_2346

    I hate stupid people with money

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  • 1 points LingonberryFun7739

    How can you be that dense

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    1 points flagrantF0wl

    Did you see the video?

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  • 1 points MightySamMcClain

    That's obviously a bad spot. Drones sway back and forth when taking off from the wind hitting the ground. He's lucky he didn't sway into the cement wall

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  • 1 points GlummyGloom

    I mean. Who could have possibly seen that coming? Everyone? Yeah. Everyone

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  • 1 points eklasse

    Next time he does it better

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  • 1 points beertown

    I wanna see the face of whoever paid for that drone

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  • 1 points GreenZebra23

    That made a cool sound

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  • 1 points BigSpeaker1742

    This is nice how much for one of these.,,?

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  • 1 points Low_Dragonfruit8779

    Ooohhhj fuken helll!!! Who trusted him fly dis???

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  • 1 points nice1bruvz

    Kinda interested to see what the rest of this guys life is like.

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  • 1 points Spwd

    Dumbass.

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  • 1 points VINAY__p

    *Expensive Lesson learnt

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  • 1 points DaimonHans

    Who'd have thought a tarp could defeat a drone 🤣

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  • 1 points Yes-No-Maybe121

    To have learned a lesson - assumes you have humility and intelligence enough to see the gift that is before you.

    I think we lack enough intellect and humility, that this unfortunate display of stupidity will be repeated.

    The operator of this drone needs to understand the design and placement of helipads.

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  • 1 points Apprehensive-Grab333

    🤦🏼‍♂️

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  • 1 points REDACTEDXX_V

    What is baba yaga doing at China?

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    1 points xpkranger

    Practice

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  • 1 points IT_techsupport

    Ai? or guy has 0 reflexes/ survival instincts?

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  • 1 points JLsoft

    Steam Deck XL

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  • 1 points pemiufer

    Oof, that's what happens when you skimp on the brakes, huh?

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  • 1 points pemiufer

    Haha, the keyboard's just begging for some drama now.

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  • 1 points GooseOnBoose

    -$1.000.000

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  • 1 points LengthinessClear9552

    I’m not seeing the problem or the chaos. Maybe you shouldn’t try to trim the bushes at the exact same time as removing the tarp but they still got the job done.

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  • 1 points pogo_iscure

    That looks very very expensive

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  • 1 points damascus_77

    Oh yea right here in the most crowded place possible

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  • 1 points Walzmyn

    Bold of you to assume anything was learned

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  • 1 points SneakyPetie78

    Im not drone pilot, but I could tell you, you need more clearance than that.

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  • 1 points ouzimm

    ain't no way im trying to lift it up in the middle of a street. go to a field brother.

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  • -12 points SirFlax

    I think this is AI.

    The amount of wind force that thing would be putting out, especially for a drone the size of a car, is not felt at all by its surroundings in this clip. Not to mention the amount of constant blur on random objects and corners. To then also have what I assume is the drone pilot not really reacting to his drone getting caught in a blanket and falling back down seems implausible. Also the blanket must be being held onto by something crazy to somehow get eaten by a drone but still be stuck to the side of that building.

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    9 points Tofandel

    This drone doesn't have a battery, it's plugged in. It's a DJI flycart 30. It may be as big as a car, but it's far from it's weight

    • Without batteries: The drone weighs 42.5 kg.

    It has a bigger area so the lifting force is more spread out, which gives of the expected wind in the video during lift. This thing is not an entire helicopter. A helicopter would put out easily 50 times the lifting force of this drone.

    I didn't see any anomaly in the video except bad compression

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    0 points Master_Xenu

    The curtain part definitely seems suspect, if you pause at the right moment the curtain is just so damn long. That's my only problem with it but they could have super long curtains that are the entire height of the house...I guess.

    https://i.ibb.co/7xfDn8PP/Screenshot-2025-11-28-143149.png

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  • 0 points Thalenra

    Oof, that cauliflower's got some serious beef with you. Lesson noted!

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  • 0 points ReginaldJohnston

    What a wonderful model helicopter.

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  • 0 points Decent-Ad701

    Drones are the future of warfare. Just hope our future enemies are this competent in their use.

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  • -2 points nikfornow

    This is the same cgi drone that they flew into a truck a few years ago...

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  • -8 points Kenex77

    Ah yes this is such a real video ah ha ha ha what a doofus amiright

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