Re: Radio Controlled Murder
- From: "K Barrett" <mormodes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 10:32:32 -0800
"Willow" <pangarun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A short time ago, I rekindled my interest in radio controlled
devices. Some might have seen the cars, ships and planes that are
controlled by a person with a small transmitter. Needing a bit to do
inside in the winter, I explored the ins and outs of helicopters small
enough to fly indoors.
A Quark will soon fly around our home, and hopefully its duties will
include chasing the cats when they act silly (an endless task) or the
dogs when they bark at a passing ghost.
My return to this hobby after many years set me to thinking - has
anyone used a radio controled heli/plane/car/ship in a mystery? I do
recall one of the Clent Eastwood "Dirty Harry" plots involving a mad
bomber who delivered his bombs with an r/c car and an episode of "Man
from U.N.C.L.E." where a bomb (I think) was delivered via a radio
controlled plane, but nothing else comes to mind.
Amazing what these things will do, really. I recall when visiting
London years ago, I was walking close to Green Park when a car came by
towing "Bismarck" - it must have been at least twelve feet long! I
got interested and followed to watch a gathering of r/c ship fanciers
who proceeded to launch battleships, submarines, troop carriers and
all sorts of ships into a pond. They did amazing things. More
recently, I have watched some rc helicopter pilots do what is called
"3D" and no real heli could come close - even the movie versions....
It occured to me that with all the miniturization of explosives and
such that a model plane/car/heli could be as deadly as any murderer
would want, with the added advantage of being some distance away.
Could one assasinate a politician with a radio controlled heli?
Certainly. Are these things rare enough to be traced like guns or the
like? Nope - well, some yes, of course. .
Does anyone know of a mystery where rc vehicles were used as the fatal
delivery system???
Willow
Argh... the fellow who wrote Davinci Code...grrrrr the book set in the
arctic...had a blurb from Pres Clinton saying he wished they had such things
available in real life...gggggrrrrrrrr it'll come to me.... Nah. gotta
google: Dan Brown's 'Deception Point'. Not bad, not great. For you a light
afternoon read. I enjoyed it, suspending disbelief all the way. Isn't that
a line from Jingle Bells? - no. too much Xmas on my mind... or is that a
line from a Ray Charles song... or another example of apophenia.... Ha! My
brain's melting and it isn't even 10:30AM here. There was a decent program
on TV recently (Discovery Channel?) about drones and fire fighting. They
can 'see' (infrared?) through smoke whereas pilots and conventional aircraft
can't, allowing fire chiefs on the ground to allocate equipment in a more
timely fashion. And if one goes down all you've lost is money, not a pilot
& personnel.
K Barrett
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