Off Topic Amazon to Parcel bomb Darlington

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Blond Bombshell

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Wonder if there'll do more damage than the Luftwaffe...During World War II, Darlington experienced limited Luftwaffe bombing, with notable activity in March 1945, when a lone raider strafed streets and targeted a train.

BBC News - 'We had people come just to see it': Amazon delivers its first UK parcels by drone - BBC News
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'We had people come just to see it': Amazon delivers its first UK parcels by drone

The unmanned aircraft can drop off 100 parcels a day within a 12km radius of Amazon's hub.
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Blond Bombshell said:
Wonder if there'll do more damage than the Luftwaffe...During World War II, Darlington experienced limited Luftwaffe bombing, with notable activity in March 1945, when a lone raider strafed streets and targeted a train.

BBC News - 'We had people come just to see it': Amazon delivers its first UK parcels by drone - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk

'We had people come just to see it': Amazon delivers its first UK parcels by drone

The unmanned aircraft can drop off 100 parcels a day within a 12km radius of Amazon's hub.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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It's Darlington ...

... the first drone will be stolen, put on Ebay, delivered and nicked off someone's porch!
 
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Smug in Boots said:
It's Darlington ...

... the first drone will be stolen, put on Ebay, delivered and nicked off someone's porch!
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That's why they are staying about 10ft off the ground, and only dropped in selected places, wait till one hits a house like what happened in America when trying it out.
 
Just imagine, a lovely warm Sunday afternoon, you've had a few dry sherrys, you go to turn the sausages over ever so slightly on the Barbie.. you hear a buzzing and go to waft the bee away with your BBQ tongs...
 
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rooch 3 said:
Like the first mobile phones, can’t see this catching on.
One parcel upto 7.5 miles delivery?
A van driver will have done 200 by then.
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The bloody sky will be swarming with them if they want to make it workable. And that's before someone works out how to nick them or jam their navigation, or start nicking the parcels before the intended recipient gets there.
 
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rowley said:
The bloody sky will be swarming with them if they want to make it workable. And that's before someone works out how to nick them or jam their navigation, or start nicking the parcels before the intended recipient gets there.
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What worries me most is that, I'd guess, these drones are made in the USA or China, like the robots that sort the parcels at Amazon. They'll be delivering goods made in the Far East which will undercut products made here. We're all expected to marvel at the technology but it looks to me like we're just taking jobs out of the country and getting little in return, not even the proper amounts of tax.
 
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Blond Bombshell said:
Surely the kids will be getting bigger weapons than my Nerf gun I use to shoot at the fecking seagulls trying to get at my goldfish in my pond.
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I literally just received this WhatsApp, from Dave Ashfield in Devon, who's sick of being **** on by the seagulls ...

... he'll never hit one but it'll keep him occupied!

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