Drone Shows Life Struggle

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Snowmobile goes through ice! Caught on drone!

A snowmobiler in Pontiac, Michigan is caught on video struggling for his life with screwdrivers trying to get out of a hole in the ice caused when his snowmobile went through it. He was probably chilly.

 

From the drone pilot:

To clarify things. I was flying the drone, the drone belongs to my friend who was driving the snowmobile. I did object to him driving on the ice that day. He at least had 2 screwdrivers and was wearing a life jacket. This was not staged, but it wasn't completely unexpected either. When I saw him go through I had to call 911, I edited that part of the video, I was also getting the rope ready, which is why you can see I had trouble finding him again for a second, I had just left the drone hovering when I was doing all that. It was my friends instructions that if he went in to get the drone back. I wish I would've set it down on the ice so you could have seen the part where I came flying up on the grass in my car, tied a garden hose, extension cord, and rope together and threw it out close to him. He was finally able to get on solid ice and pull himself out, by that time the fire dept, police and ems were already there, we pulled him back across the ice and got him on shore. So no i'm not a dick or a bad pilot.

 

Uh, no not a bad drone pilot but kind of a dumbfuck. It seems like kind of a douchebag move to do stupid shit that puts the lives of rescue personnel at risk. Rescue people factor the danger of the occupation into their lives of course and some live for the danger. I know a few people who have had to do crazy shit like go into a crashed car that was on fire-I can't be certain I would do it but would like to think I would-and people who do dumb shit often deserve to just cease to be in the gene pool any longer rather than knowingly risk the lives of others.

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Faked !

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eh's picture

Crisis actors at the very least.

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eh's picture

A little stupidity goes a long way though.

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