The News has said that a 47 year old man and a 54 year old woman have been arrested in Crawley.
A 47-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman, from Crawley, were arrested in the town at about 22:00 GMT on Friday.
I assumed the accused would be young males
How odd, I wonder if they are something like protesting climate change activists…
this lot who were busy yesterday…
I think something was said about ‘eco-warriors’ in the news.
I missed that JB but the ‘attack’ seems to have been well organised and executed including in the middle of the night.
Or even ban them from flying anywhere?
I wonder why this lot aren’t protesting in the countries of the largest polluters where their claims might do more good?
If they are protesting & attempting to make the world a safer place to live, how can they justify flying drones in an area where aircraft are taking off and landing?
I have no problem with peaceful protests, but where lives & well being can be put at risk, the punishment should be harsh!
Because they know the consequences wouldn’t be a good outcome for them.
That’s the thing with so called activists. Give it another five years and they will be jetting off with their kids along with everyone else.
I am interested to know how they found the culprits. I wonder if they were grassed by someone, or did the police managed to track the signals of the transmitter, which I doubt.
Most drones or quadcoptors as I like to call them have 2 frequencies that most use. One for controlling, and another for the camera and FPV.
If you try to jam the controlling frequency. It could automatically do a RTH. (Return to home). Apart that on the 2.4 gig that are used, there are thousands of channels. That is why you can fly many aircraft at the same time in the same area.
The ‘eco-warriors’:
Paul Gait, 47, and his wife Elaine Kirk, 54, were detained by police at their detached home in West Sussex at around 10pm on Friday night.
Father of two, Mr Gait, who works as a window fitter, is understood to be a drone enthusiast who also flew remote control helicopters.
But his boss insisted he had been working when the drone attacks were taking place and said he would be shocked if he had anything to do with the incident.
They don’t look like activists to me so it must be a case of mistaken identity …
Not being funny but what does an activist look like, we can’t tell a pedo from a middle aged man or an isis fighter from a caring Muslim so how can we say what an activist looks like ?
Do you think so it’s not like they are spring chickens ?
I was being funny …
Previous posters were speculating about eco-warriors and activists …
Try it in China and they’d never do it again! That’s why they do it here - no punishment!
Apologies I didn’t get the joke.
Why not go to China and try it?
Well, it wasn’t that funny anyway …
But the arrested couple do look suspiciously “normal” …
What a stupid thing to do!!! Looks like they did it just because they could and I bet they thought it was funny!
It would be just as funny if their address was made public!
And his boss said that he was working at the time of the incident. ???