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If this ever actually happens, delivery theft will be rampant.


My first thought is that knocking drones out of the sky (not necessarily to steal their contents) could become the new fun activity for bored juvenile delinquents.


Not just juvenile delinquents. I am well into my 40s, and I am not sure I am going to be able to resist take a shot at them.


Seems better than leaving the package sitting in front of the door for several hours.


One well-placed shot from a pellet rifle could bag you a drone and a cookware set.


stuff the package, I'm stealing the drone....


Will you?

I don't see 'rampant theft' of delivery vans.

If drones become the common place, why should any one steal them.

Honestly its a 18th century person using horse carriages saying cars becoming common will lead to rampant car theft. If something is freely available the motivation to steal it drops.


How do you figure?


Lots of ways to knock out a drone out of the sky.


Presumably they'll have GPS and will phone home constantly- if someone shoots it down/hits it with a thrown ball/etc Amazon will probably send someone out to find it. If they find it mounted on someone's wall like a hunting trophy they'll call the police.


Shoot it down, take out the battery, put it in a faraday cage bag and sell it to the blackhat hardware modder. It ain't pretty but a few of those, and you can afford both food and mortage. You got to live off something, and jobs have been hard to come by since The Automatization. </story>


Maybe there's a camera live-streaming the flight, hell; within 10 miles of the warehouse maybe there's a guy in a tower with a pair of binoculars.




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