Drone Wolf

[poliphilo]

Someone has come up with the monicker Drone Wolf for the man or woman who shut down Gatwick.

Instant legend.

The assumption is that the perp is an "eco-warrior" and the assumption is probably right. But it could have been a kid. We won't call them a terrorist because people weren't terrorised, merely annoyed.

The wonder is it hasn't been tried before. It's not that it hadn't been thought of. Airports round the world have been taking measures in anticipation. But not Gatwick, apparently. One airport- I think it was in the Netherlands- has been training up birds of prey to take drones down- an cheap and elegant way of dealing with a cheap and elegant "crime".

I put "crime" in inverted commas because our overuse of air travel is also criminal. We all know we shouldn't be pumping rubbish into the atmosphere and none of us is doing very much about it. Apart from Drone Wolf, that is. There's a long, long tradition of being annoying in a good cause. Gandhi belongs in it, so does Martin Luther King, so do Pussy Riot. They were all of them very annoying in their day and age- and look how we admire them now.

Comments

[poliphilo]

The police have made arrests but I'm not at all sure they've got the right people.

[oakmouse]

Looks like very much not the right people. Poor devils, they've got a hard row to hoe now. (The falsely accused, I mean.) The internet is slow to forget and slow to believe a mistake has been made.

[poliphilo]

The authorities fouled up across the board.