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6. I'll have to remember that excuse the next time I want a new toy..

Mon Dec 3, 2012, 05:00 PM

Dec 2012

(Not that we have kinds, but still.. I'm sure I can come up with something similar *grin*)

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Dad's homemade drone follows kid to bus stop [View all] Liberal_in_LA Dec 2012 OP

Is it armed? Renew Deal Dec 2012 #1

Follow up story: Son shoots down drown with paintball rifle Earth_First Dec 2012 #2

The kid? Or the German shepherd? Fawke Em Dec 2012 #23

It's Vermont. Dad just wants to build gadgets cali Dec 2012 #18

Why was he walking the kid to the bus stop in the first place? Brickbat Dec 2012 #5

depends on age of kids. "grade school" = 5 to 12. Liberal_in_LA Dec 2012 #11

Of course they can. Mine did. cali Dec 2012 #19

Because the kid enjoys it? gkhouston Dec 2012 #30

I'm thinking that's not the issue. Brickbat Dec 2012 #32

I'll have to remember that excuse the next time I want a new toy.. X_Digger Dec 2012 #6

I am trying to imagine woo me with science Dec 2012 #7

Okay, so wait... Javaman Dec 2012 #8

a "hilly" quarter mile with trees! Liberal_in_LA Dec 2012 #10

Hey, it's a quarter mile back to the house, too. Arkansas Granny Dec 2012 #12

and hilly, both ways. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #14

Always snowing too, with those damn ice pellets. nt Nay Dec 2012 #33

... Javaman Dec 2012 #15

He must *really* love his SportsCenter in the morning... Blue_Tires Dec 2012 #27

He could have bought one for a couple of hundred hootinholler Dec 2012 #16

The dad is incredibly lazy. Terra Alta Dec 2012 #17

He's teaching his son ... surrealAmerican Dec 2012 #21

or maybe he just likes tinkering and making shit cali Dec 2012 #22

I like building gadgets too ... surrealAmerican Dec 2012 #25

If he's anything like me, yea just a DIY'er gone wild. tridim Dec 2012 #26

I'm sure that drone will be able to protect that kid Skidmore Dec 2012 #24

I wonder if the NRA would argue that the individual has a constitutional right Old and In the Way Dec 2012 #29