Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules

library_napper , 6 months ago

Officials also seized 14kg (31lbs) of hashish, 8kg (18lbs) of marijuana, more than €157,300 (£135,527) in cash, and six large aerial drones.

Holy crap. So, umm, what happens if snatch a drone carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars? Finders keepers?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62040790

INHALE_VEGETABLES , 6 months ago

Finders dissapeepers

jarfil , 6 months ago

what happens if snatch a drone carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Run.

If the owner finds you… like if they have a camera recording and the GPS location… you might get some free bullets on top of it.

Spain has some relatively strict gun control. That doesn’t mean someone controlling the smuggling of millions of € in drugs, can’t pay a few grand for some of his “acquaintances” to fly all the way over, get his property back “by whatever means”, and fly back the next day.

library_napper , 6 months ago

In September the Jordanian air force shot down two drones carrying crystal meth coming from Syria

Uh, what happens to the people below a drone-full-of-meth that’s shot down?

rbesfe , 6 months ago

The border between Jordan and Syria is mostly unpopulated desert. Time for a treasure hunt!

Powderhorn OP , 6 months ago

They don’t sleep for three days.

library_napper , 6 months ago

I was thinking the crystals would turn to fairy dust then you’d start floating and fly off to never never land

ImplyingImplications , 6 months ago

Great, another good job taken by robots!

taanegl , 6 months ago

They took our jobs!

tsonfeir , 6 months ago

I mean, most drones do snitch, where can I buy a drone that doesn’t broadcast its position or have gps fences?

library_napper , 6 months ago

I think you just build one using open source components

Smoke , 6 months ago

Be sure not to leave fingerprints!