“Drone,” he said. “I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”

Ernest Hemingway wrote these words in his timeless, classic novella The Old Man and the Sea.

Okay, so he didn’t write “drone”. He wrote “fish”. But if Papa was on the dock for the following footage where a fisherman in San Diego hooks a guy’s flying drone, he might’ve been moved to rework his story.

The drone operator’s name is Tice Ledbetter and according to him, the fishmonger is an “asshole”.

Is he though? Check it out for yourself and make your best judgment. Never mind the fact that Ledbetter might be breaking the law by spearheading an “unmanned flight over city property”.

Drones aren’t all bad, however. Here’s the gorgeous aerial footage that Tice’s flying machine captured:

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