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The news here isn’t that a guy in Kentucky shot a drone mid-air as it hovered over his backyard. At this point, that’s not much of a surprise.
What is notable, however, is the comments the shooter made after being arrested for the incident.
William Meredith was charged with first degree criminal mischief and first degree wanton endangerment this past weekend after firing a shotgun at and successfully destroying an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone) as it hovered over his yard in Hillview, Kentucky, according to local news station WDRB.
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First of all, I have not been able to verify that this shot at Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, pictured above, was generated by a Target store in Washington state (much as nothing else seems verified in this insufferably overblown mess). The guy who posted the picture on Twitter tells me a friend of his posted it on Facebook and that it was taken, supposedly, at a Target store in Washington state.
Here’s a wider angle so you can see that it sure looks like a Target store (of which there are 37 in Washington state).
And it looks like a Target store that employs someone who doesn’t appreciate that a joke displayed publicly on the West Coast can make it all the way to the East Coast in the blink of an eye these days.
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