Another Heathrow drone attack in planning

[The Editor]

Put these terrorists in a cell with a guy name Bruno. Let that sink in. No pun intended.

Yes - that would do it...... subject them to Bruno Mars songs 24/7.

Enough to deter even the hardest criminals.

 

[gnirtS]

Threaten them with a bar of soap and a job offer.
Those 2 things utterly terrify them.

 

[AnzacJack]

These nut bags aren’t deliberately targeting drones. They are just using drones to be disruptive. They are operating in Brisbane at the moment (thankfully not with drones, and I hope they don’t start) and are shutting down main roads in peak hour by running ropes across bridges and gluing canoes to roads. They keep getting arrested but they also keep getting released. They need to start seeing some decent jail time

 

[AnzacJack]

This may have been posted in another thread or I may be posting in the wrong forum

Saw an article today that a splinter group of EXTINCTION REBELLION is planning another drone attack on Heathrow starting Friday, Sept 13 and lasting for a week, or longer. The plan is to fly the drones at head height to stop inbound and outbound flights.

Will have to wait and see if
A) They do it
B) If they do what new restrictions on drone ownership and operations will be put into place

Article originally was published in the Daily Mail Online

Drone laws won’t make a difference with this crowd. They would be blatantly breaking already existing laws

 

[Mavic Mac]

Drone laws won’t make a difference with this crowd. They would be blatantly breaking already existing laws

Totally agree - but like most things in life - it only takes one to screw it up for all the others - The laws that will be made will only affect "law abiding" fliers - it won't hinder or deter the flagrant violators !

 

[gnirtS]

Drone laws won’t make a difference with this crowd. They would be blatantly breaking already existing laws

Not laws as such but absolute, maximum penalty enforcement for every single one of them would deter for next time.
These people push and push because they know currently they law isnt going to act.

Laws are only effective with effective enforcement and punishment.

 

[zocalo]

Not laws as such but absolute, maximum penalty enforcement for every single one of them would deter for next time.
These people push and push because they know currently they law isnt going to act.

Laws are only effective with effective enforcement and punishment.

Pretty sure that's what they'll get if they get caught trying this in the UK. That no one was prosecuted for Gatwick, despite all the time, effort, and expense, is still a source of embarrassment to the government and police. Also worth keeping in mind that the UK's new PM & Home Secretary are both quite hardline in their approach to crime, which will also have a bearing on the severity of any sentences.

For most legal jurisdictions, these kinds of protests utilise civil disobedience because they are well aware that the maximum possible criminal penalties are not really all that steep. Civil penalties are an option too, but in practice unlikely because the cost to bring the suit would more than likely end up costing the plaintiff more than it's worth. What they are getting into here is a completely different ball game; in the UK it's years of jail time vs. days, and thousands of pounds vs. hundreds in costs. And that's just the criminal side - LHR would go after you in civil court too, and they'd be after much more serious amounts of compensation.

Clearly plenty of members of this group are willing to risk the comparatively small worst-case punishments for the lower end type of protests. Those that are willing to risk years in jail and financial ruin? If it's more than a handful, I'll be shocked. Of course, a handful is also all that it would take to actually do this...

 

[gnirtS]

Its unlikely financial punishments will work for this lot as mummy and daddy fund them anyway in the main. Very few of these people have income of their own or savings to go after.

Jail time is needed.
So far in the UK the police have been very relaxed about drone prosecutions - even to the extent of confiscating and then returning after the event an idiot who decided it would be an amazing idea to fly his drone over a huge crowd at an airshow!

It wouldnt take many to cause chaos BUT with the new systems they have anyone flying a drone would have both the drone and their detected exceedingly quickly. Like you said, Gatwick humiliated them - they'll be out for revenge.

 

[MAvic_South_Oz]

Totally agree - but like most things in life - it only takes one to screw it up for all the others - The laws that will be made will only affect "law abiding" fliers - it won't hinder or deter the flagrant violators !

All laws are like this too, makes you wonder sometimes how unfair it can be that we all get affected by such a small % of violators . . . not to mention all the enforcement costs, sometimes effective (if actually enforced), more often not. Forever.

 

[Mrmund]

The laws and resources are available to stop them. I'd query the will of the police to stop them though.
When the soap-dodgers blockaded major city centres this year for days on end the police mainly refused to act to reopen major roads and so on because of "human rights".

Soap dogers. Hahaha