3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California • Hacker News Board

Re: 3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California

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Post by dnh44 » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 2:45 PM UTC

diggan wrote: post #117

giobox wrote: post #58

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Dog attacks are common enough in the U.K. to be a topic you can subscribe to on the BBC news site. While it’s definitely pretty culturally acceptable to have a dog off leash there, I’m not so sure it should be, especially in places such as children’s parks or near livestock etc. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c9q9301541xt/dog-attacks

Strangely enough, most of those stories are about dogs attacking their own owners/families and seems to indicate the dogs were leashed in most stories.

Coincidentally a friend of mine was just attacked and bit by a large Alsatian. Luckily he is mostly okay!

The dog was on the lead (or leash for you American English speakers) at the time of the attack though.

Re: 3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California

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Post by YinzerNxtDoor » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 9:42 PM UTC

brandonmenc wrote: post #225

fugfjj wrote: post #148

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Ground zero is Buenos Aires. Ive been to Austin. Its nice. In sure you have some very annoying dog owners. I grew up in BsAs. The city is a sidewalk of dog shit you have to avoid stepping on.

I'm not talking about stray dogs.

Neither is he

Re: 3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California

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Post by fallinghawks » Thu, Jun 10, 2021, 11:26 PM UTC

Dah00n wrote: post #244

thatguy0900 wrote: post #230

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Admittedly the drone crashing is more than a sighting, but it still stands that that is less than what a real predator would do. I just cant imagine these birds surviving while they abandon all that en mass every time a falcon attacks them. Seems like there has to be more to this story

Sounds to me like they were chasing away the birds for giggles and then a drone crashed.

It's quite possible. According to https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/generation-seabirds-wiped-dr... , while a news crew was interviewing the environmental scientist in charge and a DFW officer, a third person brought and began flying a drone, sending it directly toward another tern colony. I suspect that being buzzed by drones has been going on for a while and perhaps the crash was just the last straw.

Re: 3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California

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Post by kodah » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

fugfjj wrote: post #221

kodah wrote: post #188

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There are a lot of places that put on their website or Google maps that they're dog friendly and allow off-leash or on-leash visits. So "always" is not even near correct here, it is on a dog owner (and other visitors) to determine whether the place they're visiting is dog-friendly and to what degree.

??? If youre in an off leash park do what ever you want. No one is arguing that. Im annoyed at the leash-less dogs in parks where dogs aren't even allowed. Although they're the least of my problems, a neighbor has a couple of pet pigs.

I'm guessing you missed the whole point of who I was replying to. They weren't defending anyone or talking about an aggressive dog, they were talking about a dog that walked up to a man and he shot it. That was the example. That is a by definition example of a sociopath, dog owners not putting their stupid dog on a leash is probably irresponsible or selfish, but not sociopathic.

I've already acknowledged there's nuance to the idea of being able to shoot a dog, much like there is to shooting a human. You were so desperate to argue your silly little point about defense that you forgot you, and some of the other folks here, are defending someone who shot a dog for no reason.

That's who you defended and voted for. That's what I was upset about.