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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDrone crashes at Louis Armstrong stadium, interrupts US Open tennis match
NEW YORK -- A drone buzzed over the court during a US Open match in Louis Armstrong Stadium on Thursday night and crashed into an empty section of seats.
U.S. Tennis Association spokesman Chris Widmaier said no one was injured and that the New York Police Department was "conducting an ongoing investigation."
The black device flew diagonally through the arena during the next-to-last game of a second-round match that 26th-seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy won 6-1, 6-4 over Monica Niculescu of Romania.
Pennetta said she heard the drone fly by and was not sure what it was. ...............(more)
http://espn.go.com/tennis/usopen15/story/_/id/13577411/drone-enters-louis-armstrong-stadium-crashes-empty-seats-match
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Drone crashes at Louis Armstrong stadium, interrupts US Open tennis match (Original Post)
marmar
Sep 2015
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djean111
(14,255 posts)1. Hoping the technology to easily kill those things is in the works. n/t
nykym
(3,063 posts)2. It already exsists.
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TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)4. Motherfuckers.
These entitled assholes will ruin the hobby for everyone.