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Slate Articles ([info]slate) wrote,
@ 2015-09-11 12:08:00


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The website Deadspin has a rubric called “Idiot on the Field,” under which it chronicles the antics of those cheerful inebriates who like to disrupt sporting events by unexpectedly running onto the field of play. If this past weekend is any indication, Deadspin might soon have to inaugurate a rubric called “Idiot Above the Field,” to track the increasingly common sight of people creating chaos by flying unmanned aerial systems—better known as drones—into sports stadiums. The most recent idiot-above-the-field incident happened Saturday, when a student spiced up the pregame festivities at the University of Kentucky’s home football opener by crashing a drone into the side of the press box at Commonwealth Stadium. Two days earlier, a New York City high school teacher allegedly sent a drone careening into Louis Armstrong Stadium, in Queens, where it buzzed a U.S. Open tennis match between Flavia Pennetta and Monica Niculescu before crashing into some empty seats. “I thought ‘OK, it’s a bomb,’ ” said Pennetta afterwards. No, just an idiot.



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