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Drone camera plunges into Quabbin Reservoir
By adamg on Wed, 06/28/2017 - 11:10am
Pro tip: Before you send up your camera-equipped drone, make sure the camera is securely fastened. The MWRA says a crew using a professional-grade drone and camera (weighing about 100 pounds in total) learned that lesson last night when their camera separated from their drone and fell into the Quabbin Reservoir.
An MWRA spokesperson says the camera fell near where water from the reservoir begins its journey to the Boston area and poses no threat to water quality. Still, she says DCR and State Police divers will be sent in to retrieve the device. She added that the crew had prior permission for the drone shoot; otherwise drone flights over the reservoir are forbidden.
She adds the crew was filming a car commercial.
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Let me be the first to say
What's the point of this comment?
Seriously. By all accounts they followed all regulations and had an accident. Are you that miserable that you feel the need to laugh at others misfortune?
Fight fire with fire
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S07E21/1253635.jpg?b64lines=IFdvdWxkIHlvdSBsaW...
It was the largest automobile he could afford
n/t
Strictly for my own amusement
But if it also pisses off a humorless crank with a stick up their ass, I'll have to do it more often.
Well at least you're admitting to being nothing more than a
miserable internet troll. See you next Tuesday, Scratchie.
Funny
I'm not nearly as miserable as you seem to be.
Schadenfreude is normal.
And really.
I feel bad for the reservoir getting electronics dropped into it,
but a crew filming a car commercial losing a piece of equipment?
No, any additional expense that someone in the car advertising business incurs is a benefit. If it was human error, even better.
If it was equipment failure, they should publicly shame the manufacturer.
Maybe they can get some money back.
And PAY the MWRA for having to clean up their high-end litter.
Because... that's entertainment!
Good.
Remember how good others will feel when someone close to you dies or you befall some unfortunate incident, because "schadenfreude is normal."
Pro tip from Bob Lobel: When
Pro tip from Bob Lobel: When programming your drone to fly over a Pelham address, make sure to cross-reference that address to a post-reservoir map.
Drone Down
Maybe some ghosts from the Swift River Valley seeking revenge for their lost towns?
Hannah Corkery's Revenge?
Hannah Corkery's Revenge?
Hannah Corkery's Creator?
Is Anon a certain former VP candidate/Fairmont Line rider?
Another reason to hate car
Another reason to hate car commercials, not that we needed one.
Maybe this will be the next
Maybe this will be the next ubiquitous ad that replaces the one with the girl in the orange jacket who fantasizes about the Southwest Airline clerk singing her some boy band song that they play at least once every break on NESN.