ABOVE: bassist Spencer Pollard follows through on Saturday's throw that knocked the drone out of commission.
While filming a national skateboarding event in Detroit on Saturday, drone photographer Harry Arnold of Detroit Drone -- a frequent contributor to Deadline Detroit -- had his RC copter knocked out of the sky and broken by a punk rock bass player who decided to throw things at the UAV after finishing a song, DL Cade reports on PetaPixel.
Arnold was hired to film the Zumiez Best Foot Forward indoor skateboarding event by the event’s promoter, but apparently the promoter didn’t let the punk rock band Trash Talk know that this would be happening… or that it’s rude to break other people’s things.
Moments after his drone — which he designed and built himself from various kit and RC modeler parts — and GoPro took to the skies over the stage, bassist Spencer Pollard set his gear down and began chucking things at the drone, eventually knocking it out of the sky. As you can see in the video above, it lands with a rather cringe-inducing crunch.
The event promoter promised to pay Arnold for the damage. No one was hurt in the incident.
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