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Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM

The wild, wild, West of drones

Look! Up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane.

No it’s not Superman. It’s a drone. Thousands of ‘em.

They are everywhere. They carry Amazon products literally to your front porch. Real estate agents use the video from the drones to hawk their homes. Utilities save money by using drones to inspect power lines instead of using more expensive choppers. The law uses them to find missing persons in the backwoods or crooks on the run.

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