Animal rights group’s drone met with “numerous shots” from hunt club
The South Carolina “T and D” reports,
A remote-controlled aircraft owned by an animal rights group was reportedly shot down near Broxton Bridge Plantation Sunday near Ehrhardt, S.C.
Steve Hindi, president of SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness), said his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter drone to video what he called a live pigeon shoot on Sunday when law enforcement officers and an attorney claiming to represent the privately-owned plantation near Ehrhardt tried to stop the aircraft from flying.
“It didn’t work; what SHARK was doing was perfectly legal,” Hindi said in a news release. “Once they knew nothing was going to stop us, the shooting stopped and the cars lined up to leave.”
He said the animal rights group decided to send the drone up anyway.
“Seconds after it hit the air, numerous shots rang out,” Hindi said in the release. . . .
The Sheriff’s incident report stated that “once shot, the helicopter lost lift and crash landed on the roadway of U.S. 601.”
The drone was valued between $200 and $300.
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Perhaps the animal rights group acronym should change to KRASH…idiots.
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Southerners have always been known for being good shots, and the do not take kindly to being harassed.