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2 Foot "Quad-Copter" Crashed On White House Grounds

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2014 was not a good year for White House security, when one after another deranged intruder managed to scale the fence, and on at least one occasion, make it all the way inside the building housing the "leader of the free world" (assuming of course said leader was not on a golf course at precisely that time). The resultant embarrasement for the Secret Service was too much to bear for at least one person, and in October the head of the Secret Service resigned claiming it was the "Noble thing to do" (leaving unclear if it was "nobler" to no longer have to protect Obama or something else). However, this took place only after some others came up with the idea to dig a moat surrounding the holiest of American holies.

Which would have been a great idea, if the earth was 2 dimensional. And as it turns out, over the past few days someone figured out that while there is an extensive barrier surrounding the White House, it only stretches about 8 feet above the ground. Everything above that is open air, or as it is better known in this day and age of pervasive drone overflights: "a direct path."

As AP reports, this is precisely what happened at the White House early this Morning during Obama's trip to India (and shortly, to King Abdullah's funeral in Saudi Arabi), when according to the Secret Service, a small quad-copter drone crashed overnight at the White House complex.

An investigation is underway to determine its origin and identify suspects and their motive.

Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary says the device was a quadcopter and was about 2 feet in diameter. A quadcopter is an unmanned aircraft that is lifted by four propellers.

Leary says the quadcopter was flying at a very low altitude before it crashed on the southeast side of the executive mansion around 3:08 a.m. Monday.

This latest "targeting" of the White House raised new questions:

Why would anyone possibly want to fly a drone into the White House, an action that is sure to bring jail time if the perpetrator is discovered? One possible explanation was hinted at last week in "Smuggling Drugs Across The Mexican Border? There's A Drone For That." After all, this president may not be known for his economic acumen, or "administration transparency" but he certainly is legendary in his liberal attitude when it comes to mind-altering substances.

 

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Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:52 | 5706296 Big Corked Boots
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What, no payload?

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:55 | 5706323 hedgeless_horseman
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He needs an Iron Dome from Israel.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:04 | 5706326 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Although control freaks will ignorantly disagree, it is nearly impossible to find the operator of a drone who's careful enough. The technology has become ubiquitous. What are they going to do, track everyone who buys a 3-axis gyro, Arduino, RF module, GPS module, 3D printer, electric motor, and wire? Good luck with that...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:10 | 5706422 tired1
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yes

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:14 | 5706440 Zero_Head
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I'd LMAO if the Foodstamp President got droned.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:31 | 5706523 Manthong
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It probably had a Big Mac and a pack of Kool’s for King Hussein hanging from it

The Secret Service (or the Wookie) needs for somebody to design a Stinger about the size of a cigar with a hand-held launcher about the size of a .45 to counter this threat.

 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:37 | 5706564 NoDebt
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Let's just build a giant metal cage around the whole place.  Make it feel like.... a prison.  I think that would be fitting for the criminial residing within.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:07 | 5706708 forexskin
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thunder dome.

let 0 face some leather masked bikers with maces. mmm more popcorn.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:26 | 5706820 knukles
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Droning Brown People.  The American Way.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:31 | 5706841 Patriot Eke
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What goes around comes around.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:36 | 5706866 SWRichmond
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Manufactured incident to enable regulation of drones, restricting them to dot gov usages, all the mundanes may not have them.

The damned mundanes were catching up, fighting fire with fire, have to stop it.

Time to buy is now, apparently...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 14:00 | 5706943 Urban Redneck
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Why buy... when the Good Lord, Allah, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster all provide drones for zero fiat money cost to any able bodied man with strong hands, and a strong stomach... just grab yourself the loved one of your nearest statist drone/desk jockey (make sure they have their own cell phone on them when you do), and "ask" them to call in an "order"...

 

Improvise, Adapt and Overcome any and all obstacles.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 15:18 | 5707311 Panem et Circus
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This is all probably just some dumbass techno-geek in DC who bought a drone and took it out of the box on its maiden voyage and it got away from him. I can see two punk kids shitting their pants watching their brand new drone drift uncontrollably towards the WH in the wind we had here last night. They probably freaked the fuck out and ran like hell knowing the full weight of the US .gov was going to climb up their poop shoots for a fucking accident.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 16:04 | 5707552 Urban Redneck
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I don't advocate starting wars, just winning them.  To paraphrase Tyson- every neo-fascist-statist has plan, then their government steps on the loved ones of the largest single pool of talent in bringing down "undesireable" governments... they'll wish they were only punched in the face by Tyson (in his prime)...  

Let them make their futile plans.  In the meantime I would rather spend the probable calm before the storm with loved ones and try to improve shithole humanity has flung itself into, than be baited into participating Dubya's original shop-a-holic panacea for bankster malaise...  Que Sera, Sera.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 16:33 | 5707694 checkessential
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Yep. Next thing you know they will be tracking down all owners of Frisbees and whiffle balls when they find one lying suspiciously on the other side of fence.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:41 | 5706883 MalteseFalcon
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If this country was full of "lone wolf" terrorists, you'd think drones would be used much more often to at least spoof "mission critical situations".

The answer is, of course, Americans are largely law abiding and the current level of "policing" is straight out over-kill.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:48 | 5706901 seek
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Not just Americans but pretty much the whole fucking planet just wants to live and get along. Plenty of lone wolves could hope the mexican border at any time as well, pick up a killing tool of their choice in a burlary or buy it in a ghetto neighborhood, and go on a spree.

The reality is 99% of the time when we hear about a threat, it's someone who's mentally retarded being lead on by the FBI.

The current level of policing is about jobs and revenue (and control, of course) and has absolutely nothing to do with safety. This country made it 100 years and to over 100M+ people with no standing police forces (outside of a few megacities) and just county sherrifs.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 15:57 | 5706837 Pool Shark
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It's not an 'Illegal Drone'; it's an "Undocumented Flying Machine" that just happened to jump the 'border' fence at the WhiteHouse.

It should demand amnesty, free college tuition, and a Pilot's License...

 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:40 | 5706578 SumTing Wong
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My ten year old kid has one of those things. And he keeps crashing the damned thing everywhere. Come to think of it, I haven't seen that thing in a while. Oh shit...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:15 | 5706443 Uchtdorf
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So only buy 2nd hand because the stores have security cameras running 24/7 which the Secret Service could requisition. Never buy with a credit card.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:11 | 5706429 A Nanny Moose
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Drone Registration in 3...2...1

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:53 | 5706656 XitSam
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They can have my drone when they pry it ... um, never mind.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 14:10 | 5706982 JuliaS
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From my vast blue sky.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:23 | 5706489 Abitdodgie
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What no C4 where's the fun in that.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 14:51 | 5707178 Took Red Pill
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This was just a test run. POTUS is out of town

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:25 | 5706495 GeezerGeek
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The owner can always claim it was hijacked in mid-flight by ISIS.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:57 | 5706331 fudge
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We anthraxed some folks

 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:56 | 5706324 Overfed
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I guess they're gonna have to build a giant bullet-proof glass dome over the WH. It'll be like a big fishbowl.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:57 | 5706338 Ignatius
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"Do the orders still stand?"

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:20 | 5706472 metastar
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Did the drone crash, or was it taken down?

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 14:51 | 5707186 Took Red Pill
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apparently crashed in the trees. Too bad the pilot couldn't fly like this guy can;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD487qw8dCo&sc_src=email_107032&sc_eh=89...

 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:58 | 5706681 mbutler101
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Of course the order still stands have you heard anything to the contrary?

-Lord Vader

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:01 | 5706360 Mi Naem
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Eeeeee puh! 

Eeeeee puh! 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 15:12 | 5707280 Mi Naem
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Oh, c'mon!  Nobody recognizes that "Simpsons" episode?!? 

The one with the big glass dome over Springfield? 

That's some highbrow, sophisticated stuff, Man! 

Buncha cultural retards. 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:11 | 5706428 Razor_Edge
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"In Xanadu, did Kubla Khan, a stately pleasure dome decree....."

Is Amazon dispatching dope now by drone?

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:12 | 5706433 A Nanny Moose
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Heh...Truman Show.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:00 | 5706352 Mi Naem
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Yeah, one might look forward to flying a drone over the next protest, and dropping a sh1tload of glitter over our protectors to celebrate the sense of security they inspire. 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:02 | 5706692 XitSam
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That's an interesting idea. A harmless payload. Police response sure to be based on the "fear" it caused. "OMG, it could have been a weapon of moss destruction!"

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:38 | 5706874 SWRichmond
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One should be mindful of the wavelength of the "glitter" one releases...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 15:09 | 5707254 Mi Naem
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Red, for all the luv we feelin'. 

 

Toro!  Toro!  Toro! 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 17:58 | 5708014 DrData02
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Oh God No.  Not the Moss.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:31 | 5706534 darteaus
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Drug Drone payloas was jacked by Secret Service right after touchdown.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:39 | 5706877 SWRichmond
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small drones being used to fly drugs across the border now...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:52 | 5706305 jldpc
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So far, so good!

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:57 | 5706339 Philo Beddoe
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Pretty sure it was delivering gay porn.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:09 | 5706416 Headbanger
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Nope..  It was a super sized order for Moosechelle from KFC!

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:52 | 5706306 williambanzai7
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I'm a drone man...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:53 | 5706308 Seasmoke
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It's now the quickest way to get Obama his $$$$$$$$$

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:53 | 5706311 lakecity55
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So, that's happened to it.

I hope Barry got the Maui Wowie I taped to the fuselage.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:57 | 5706319 El Vaquero
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He likes "Labrador." 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:58 | 5706350 Cacete de Ouro
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Choom Wagon 2.0

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:54 | 5706313 SmokinMonkey
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Obama was having a new set of golf clubs delivered by drone

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:55 | 5706316 44MagnumPrepper
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Cue scary "drone at WH" from MSM in 3, 2, 1....

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:58 | 5706347 gamera9
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Yes it appears the Tea Party is is more sophisticated than once thought.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:17 | 5706452 Uchtdorf
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Unless it's a false flag operation...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:10 | 5706739 Creepy A. Cracker
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No doubt Dear Leader peed his pants then immediately surrendered.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:55 | 5706325 Salzburg1756
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:56 | 5706330 Frank N. Beans
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payback?

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:57 | 5706332 Who was that ma...
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We droned a few folks.  (And got droned in return).

What goes around, comes around.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:26 | 5706815 BigJim
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Live by the drone, ...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 17:22 | 5707907 MeelionDollerBogus
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Not a real false flag until we have a year's worth of Sandy Drone hoax memes.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:58 | 5706337 ChargingHandle
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So how long did the potentially dangerous drone sit crashed upon the grounds?  This is the real question. 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:57 | 5706341 Calculus99
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Got an enemy? 

Park 1-2 miles from his/her house, get this drone out of your boot, fly it over the fucker, then no more problems with that person.

Fly drone back to your car, drive away. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU

Shit like this is coming, better not have any  dangerous people after you...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:05 | 5706716 XitSam
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I've said it before, incendiary devices delivered by drone are going to be the next thing.  Long metal roofing.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 16:05 | 5707569 PacOps
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And then there is the drone swarm, overwhelming the targets defense capabilities. What a nightmare for the SS.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 16:08 | 5707576 PacOps
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And then there is the drone swarm, overwhelming the targets defense capabilities. What a nightmare for the SS.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:57 | 5706343 Bill of Rights
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Don't Drone me bro...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:58 | 5706346 agstacks
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Was there a wedding, funeral, or kindergarten graduation on the back lawn? Those types of events tend to draw the drones close. 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:58 | 5706349 FiatFapper
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Helicopter Ben with his new toy.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 11:59 | 5706353 Billy Sol Estes
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Wont someone think of the children?

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:06 | 5706358 steveharless
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US Armed forces sent it by mistake....drone operators  thought they were in Kiev

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:13 | 5706436 Doubleguns
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Maybe it carried a bio-weapon delivered around the whitehouse grounds prior to crash. Did any of the folks walking the grounds have protective gear on....ummm nope. Secret Service seems to be really on top of things there. 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:28 | 5706515 Big Corked Boots
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I bet that Clipboard Guy was there... so it's all good.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:04 | 5706368 Frozen
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Someone at the Papa John's Beta Drone Operator's Training Center just got their 29.5 hr workweek cut in half and demoted back down to Street Delivery

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:04 | 5706372 Agent P
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Wookie Grooming Kit from Amazon.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:04 | 5706373 SmokinMonkey
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Now I would like to fly this drone over area 51 and take a good look at all those UFOs hiding there.  

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:05 | 5706382 T-NUTZ
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Time to make drones illegal for the common man

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:46 | 5706610 raeb
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Time to make drones illegal for the common man

 

 

right, then only criminals will have drones.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:11 | 5706752 XitSam
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right, then only criminals will have drones.

 

like the government.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:07 | 5706391 f16hoser
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So that's how Obama gets his monthy coke... Sniff Sniff

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:05 | 5706392 Oswald did it
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They forgot to say that the Muslim extremists left their passports and a copy of the Koran on board

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:39 | 5706581 samsara
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I was expecting that the WH collapsed in it's own footprint from Drone Fuel. 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:06 | 5706397 Schmuck Raker
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We're going to need a bigger fence.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:09 | 5706406 hedgeless_horseman
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Hey!

That's rac...

Wait.

Oh.

You said bigger.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 14:41 | 5707130 silverer
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Two more tries?

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:08 | 5706405 F.A. Hayek
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It's just the paparazzi looking for glozell or jay-z.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:10 | 5706413 jay28elle
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Taller fence?  Hell, tear down that fence, Mr. Obama!

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:33 | 5706539 yogibear
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Drones can also carry payloads into the gated/guarded oligarchs homes.

Very easy to make custom ones. 

They attempt to jam them now.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:10 | 5706420 HowdyDoody
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Amazon delivery for the Prezident!

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:34 | 5706548 yogibear
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The animals are getting restless. It gets worse as the 1% transfer more wealth.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:10 | 5706423 Blano
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It's Bush's fault. 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:12 | 5706431 Fun Facts
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Amazon banana delivery

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:12 | 5706432 Tucson Tom
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CORRECTION: the drone was in India,the flying object was in the lawn.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:24 | 5706488 buzzsaw99
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those things get lost all the time. some poor kid lost his xmas present.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:26 | 5706501 SheepDog-One
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AH so that's how CINC gets his choom and crack delivered!

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:25 | 5706503 taketheredpill
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My solution?  Eagles. Build Eagle nests on four corners of WH roof.  It's patriotic as shit and anything drifting lazily in WH airspace will be free game.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:44 | 5706606 IridiumRebel
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Let me expand. EAGLES WITH FRICKIN LASER BEAMS.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:27 | 5706508 NoWayJose
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How much longer until there is a six block area around the White House that is cordoned off and inaccessible to the common man?

In today's world of drones, you really cannot have rooftop snipers blasting away at small moving targets. 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:13 | 5706764 XitSam
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It used to be that common people had picnic lunches on the White House lawn.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:26 | 5706514 Mike Honcho
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Congress scrambled and set a record for developing, proposing, and voting in a 967 page Drone Regulation Bill (only applies to citizens)

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:38 | 5706579 yogibear
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They can pass all the bills they want. The terrorist won't care.

All the terrorist need to do is custom make a armada of them and fly in around the white house with payloads.

At night do it.

DO it when the president's around and congress/senate is in session then set them off. Imagine the panic.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:31 | 5706839 BigJim
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Send in a fleet and cripple a Mark1 GE reactor. Sit back and watch the fuel pools start boiling a few days later a la Fukushima.

Do that to one sited a few miles upwind of a major conurbation and you've got a truly Big Deal.

The fact that no 'terrorists' have done this suggests to me that i) they're pretty dumb, or ii) they're controlled opposition.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:27 | 5706522 LFMayor
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Looks like it was carrying a noseCandy-gram.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:29 | 5706524 taketheredpill
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Secret Service will be sent back to shooting school and learn how to properly handle a 12-Guage open choke.   PULL!!

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:14 | 5706767 yogibear
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"Secret Service will be sent back to shooting school and learn how to properly handle a 12-Guage open choke.   PULL!!"

If it stays low enough and they start shooting other agents/security people.  Quite amusing.

They have another threat now among others.

Some of these drones can be so small.  They can fire small poison darts.


Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:32 | 5706540 IronShield
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It coulda been one of his sons.  Dad, I'm home...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:36 | 5706562 stant
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Maybe that drone was trying to escape

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:42 | 5706587 BouncingCat
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Amazon test delivery?

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:45 | 5706604 youngman
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I bet it was a Super Bowl Commercial.......Whats UP???? Maybe the Budweiser Clydedales.....

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:45 | 5706608 loregnum
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The drone president having a drone dropped on his lawn and his SS minions freaking out over it...hopefully whoever flew it is against all the drone use and did it as some joke. Better not have been some test of security and some chump is planning some type of white house attack as we don't need to deal wih the fallout from that.

Won't be long before some government twats say quad-copters need to be banned.

 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:19 | 5706793 XitSam
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Drone swarm. End of Rose Garden ceremonies & press conferences.

See two drones bounce a ball between them http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/28/quadrocopters-juggle-balls-cooperativ...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:34 | 5706855 BigJim
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Statist solution: We need to regulate juggling.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:24 | 5706805 Bob
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By far most likely explanation is False Flag Quad Attack for just that reason.  I'd like to think one could fly in a drone . . . oops, scratch that . . . but I'm thinking the SS has all radio frequencies monitored fully and probably pass through only signals known to them. 

Seems there would be a lot of reasons for them to be already using such a system for many years. 

But they wanna choke private drones out of existence is my guess.  Too many wild cards in other settings. 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:50 | 5706641 zerohedgejjxxzz12
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Maybe Obamba and congress will have to resort to living in a cave for national security!

 Hmm where have we seen this before?

Didn't Osma bin laden live in one?

 Wasn't Sadam Hussein living in one when they found him?

 Seems things are bout to go full circle.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:14 | 5706647 swass
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Mystery Solved!  Yellen was asking the Federal Reserve IT department to experiment with "dollar" drones to drop cash from the sky rather than using more expensive and fuel-inefficient manned helicopters of her predecessors. 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:56 | 5706666 tuttisaluti
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They need a cage and the lock on the outside , not a fence.......

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:07 | 5706710 Emergency Ward
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Time for 20-foot concrete walls topped by concertina wire, guard towers staffed by shoot-to-kill sharpshooters, and rooftop anti-aircraft batteries -- we must keep the President safe.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:10 | 5706747 Dr. Engali
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There will be a day when we have miniaturized  biometric assassin drones. That is when things get interesting. 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:25 | 5706814 Limbs Akimbo
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See the movie 'Dune'?

 

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:52 | 5706927 _SILENCER
Mon, 01/26/2015 - 14:43 | 5707148 silverer
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It's a combo play:  "Drune".

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:14 | 5706759 Zymurguy
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I'm sure it was one of his daughter's "holiday" gifts they were playing with.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 18:02 | 5706788 TheGreatRecovery
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Flown by the same Top-Gun-in-their-dreams drone "pilots" who keep accidentally dropping bombs on wedding parties in the Near East?

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:23 | 5706801 2muchtax
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Poor bastard didn't realize that they are serial numbered. SWAT team in 3.2.1...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:25 | 5706807 Limbs Akimbo
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If drones are outlawed....only outlaws will have drones.

 

Now anyone can become a merc. Just have enough batteries!!!

 

Yahoo!!!!!!

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:31 | 5706838 raeb
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Better check for the ebola virus and quarantine the White House.  We quarantined some folks.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:46 | 5706898 begintowin
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Actually what occurred was Obama secretly ordered the FAA to ban Netanyahu's flight from Israel when Benji was invited to come to the U.S. and personally command the Congress to serve Israel first.

So Benji sought the advice and counsel of a rabbi who practices the art of Kabbalah. He decided to sneak into the country by using a secret Jewish incantation to shrink himself so he could fit inside a drone. Netanyahu's rabbi warned him the spell would wear off at midnight but Benji thought midnight was U.S. time not Tel Aviv time.

Consequently as the drone was on final approach to Reagan National Airport, the spell wore off and crashed coincidentally on the White House lawn when Netanyahu returned to his normal size.  Benji escaped by squeezing himself through the metal bars of the White House front gate (rats can easily do that).

I have it on good authority that is what really happened.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:48 | 5706903 Shrapnel
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I'd bet just about anything that one of the many treasonous gov't agency's was responsible for this. Hegelian Dialectic, the gov't wants to clamp down on this technology and given the established history of false flags and fraudulent events used to further an agenda, this fits right in.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 13:51 | 5706925 _SILENCER
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Barry just was having a new pair of Mom Jeans delivered from Overstock.com. He loves a bargain.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 14:08 | 5706975 strangeglove
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That was SkyMall, Sorry

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 14:24 | 5707060 SmittyinLA
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Sooo how do jumbo jet engines fired up waiting on the ground digest drones, any studies yet?

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 14:32 | 5707107 2muchtax
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$4,000,000,000,000 later a teenager can defeat their security

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 14:33 | 5707110 Bangalore Torpedo
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What I find to be absolutely hilarious: how many people that post here believe in all of the CIA/FBI/etc. conspiracy theories?  MANY!  Yet the Obimbo administration proves its utter incompetence over and over again!  They got off light this time, next time some whackjob could very well pack a much more volatile payload in that bad boy!

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 14:42 | 5707144 2muchtax
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I know for sure that there are if fact conspiracies and a lot of incompetent people in gov't. The only thing that I'm uncertain of is which to attribute to each event.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 16:34 | 5707697 piratepiet
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Hanlon's razor :

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 16:40 | 5707722 Urban Redneck
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The Stupidity, Ignorance and Arrogance of .gov desk jockeys create the "opportunities" that malicious men like Z'big and Rahmbo seek to capitalize on.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 17:07 | 5707840 MeelionDollerBogus
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Occam's Razor: other things being equal, simpler explanations are generally better than more complex ones

 

and... it's simpler to get manipulating liars all into one place and organized than a pile of stupid people, since that's like herding cats across fields of random laser-pointers and cat-nip.

 

It's double-easy to trick everyone who believes Hanlon by all playing stupid. Stupid people can't pretend to be good liars but good liars can pretend to be stupid in front of others who genuinely are stupid.

 

Never attribute to stupidity that which is provably explained by goal-directed malice on a consistent basis and beneficial to the same group of people repeatedly.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 18:14 | 5708069 TheGreatRecovery
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Best post ever!  Thank you.

"It's double-easy to trick everyone who believes Hanlon by all playing stupid. Stupid people can't pretend to be good liars but good liars can pretend to be stupid in front of others who genuinely are stupid.

"Never attribute to stupidity that which is provably explained by goal-directed malice on a consistent basis and beneficial to the same group of people repeatedly."

As my wise old friend (the same one who said "never try to con a con-man" said, "you have to learn to play dumb."

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 18:07 | 5708045 TheGreatRecovery
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I TRIED TO TELL THEM that they need to move the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Fed underground, for only underground will be safe from Turrists - until Mattel brings out the $100 remotely-piloted drill rigs.   :-)

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 18:11 | 5708058 TheGreatRecovery
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It's that dang Machiavelli!  Ever since I read him, I can't keep from looking over my shoulder.  :-)

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 14:37 | 5707124 silverer
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They're calling a simple RC helicopter a "drone"?  This will require massive expensive domestic and G10 meetings and more piles of new regulations and restrictions.  Whoever did this should get their ass kicked by the RC hobbyists, who have enjoyed this stuff for years without hurting anyone, and now they will suffer for the actions of some jerk.  Any half wit could have done this 30 years ago, but now a half wit actually did.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 13:06 | 5731621 TheGreatRecovery
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Uh oh.  It just occurred to me that the government employee out flying his drone around the White House grounds, at 3AM, drunk, might have been PAID by, say, the NSA, to do exactly that.  Which would make this just the 19th-million Black Flag.  Sheez, I bet there are actually 25 different Departments of Black Flag, and all of their employees living it up in houses with heated swimming pools, just laughing their butts off at the Sheeple they get paid so well to defraud.  (Note: This is NOT sarcasm.)

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 15:09 | 5707261 1stepcloser
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did a saudi passport fall out after it crashed

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 15:15 | 5707298 Bunga Bunga
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All drones are coming back to daddy.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 15:57 | 5707522 Geruda
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This is not a forum.  It's a place full of talking monkeys.  Retarded ones at that.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 16:01 | 5707539 2muchtax
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Welcome

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 16:12 | 5707600 discopimp
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BarryO needs weed, it our patrotic duty to fly it to him!!

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 17:01 | 5707819 MeelionDollerBogus
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Either yers dronin' with us or yer dronin' with tha terr'issts!

Or... next on "Skynet: is jealous of Obama golfing and wants to join him on the green"

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 22:34 | 5708977 Infinite QE
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Michelle ran out of "keep me a woman" pills and needed an emergency delivery.

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