Awesome stuff you see on the internet

Imagine that sort of co-ordinated swarm, but the drones have facial recognition cameras and lots of sharp pointy knives all over them. And you are the target....

mariner4life

@kirwan said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@mariner4life said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@tim we. are. fucked.

Yep. Not to get all Daniel Suarez on you, but did you see those co-ordinated drones from the olympics making a live animation of a bird?

Imagine that sort of co-ordinated swarm, but the drones have facial recognition cameras and lots of sharp pointy knives all over them. And you are the target....

I'd rather not, i enjoy sleeping

Tim

Feds: Man tried to impress a woman by chartering a helicopter for a fake military mission

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A man pretending to be a three-star U.S. Army general wanted to impress a woman when he unexpectedly landed in a chartered helicopter at the headquarters of a North Carolina technology company last year, a federal agent testified Monday.

Details about the strange case of Christian Desgroux emerged at a hearing before a federal magistrate, who ordered that the defendant remain in jail pending his upcoming arraignment. The 57-year-old is charged with pretending to be a military officer, which carries a maximum of three years in prison.

It was around sunset on Nov. 6 when the pilot of the helicopter chartered by Desgroux landed on a soccer field at the sprawling corporate campus of SAS Institute in Cary.

As security officers approached, Desgroux stepped out wearing a "full military battle dress uniform" and displaying three stars that implied a rank of lieutenant general, Homeland Security Special Agent Tony Bell testified.

He saluted the security officers, and they actually saluted him back," Bell said.

A suspicious security supervisor confronted Desgroux, who told him he was there to pick up a female employee to take her to Fort Bragg for a classified briefing that had been authorized by President Donald Trump.

But none of it was true: Desgroux later acknowledged to federal agents that he had never served in the U.S. military, Bell said.

The woman, a longtime acquaintance of Desgroux, expected him to arrive in a car for a visit. Instead they went on a 30-minute helicopter ride around Raleigh, Bell said.

"She had no idea that he was flying a helicopter to pick her up," Bell said. Bell testified that Desgroux wanted to pursue a romantic relationship, but the woman is married.