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Via Junkee:

An Aussie Hero Is Facing A Huge Fine For Using A Drone To Order A Bunnings Sausage
By Matilda Dixon-Smith, 9/11/2016

Let’s talk about our justice system, folks. Specifically: what is happening to the world if a bonafide Aussie Legend is fined $9,000 just for being the first genius to collect a Bunnings sausage using a drone instead of his own two feet? Has the world gone mad?

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is investigating after a video was uploaded to YouTube of a man piloting a drone from his home to the Sunbury Bunnings carpark to pick up a sanga from the weekend sausage sizzle. The CASA has said the drone trip violates a bunch of drone regulations, including use out of line of sight and use over a populated area.

CASA spokesperson Peter Gibson has said the drone can be seen in the video (which has since been deleted from YouTube) travelling over a housing estate, over a four-lane road and then hovering over the sausage sizzle. “You can clearly see people walking to and from their cars,” he told The Age. “You can clearly see people around the sausage sizzle.”

In an anonymous interview with tech mag EFTM, the drone operator defended the video, saying, “we shot it in parts, never going over homes or people”. The operator also claimed to have permission from those running the sausage sizzle.

The Bunnings sausage is, of course, an age-old Australian tradition. It’s at least as sacred as the Democracy Sausage on election day. So vital to Australian life is the Bunnings sausage that there is an entire Facebook page of memes devoted to it: the disturbingly entertaining Bunnings Memes. The page has just responded to the news, calling it “fucking bullshit”. “$9000 snag probably worth it though.”

Know this: we love a sausage, with onion and sauce, in white bread. We love it a whole lot.

Let’s be honest for a second here: would you like a Bunnings snag delivered to you via drone while you sit in a hot tub in your backyard? Yes. Of course you would. However, take this as a hefty warning: despite claims they did nothing wrong, the drone operator now faces a fine of $9,000 for the illegal flight.

That’s a heck of a lot of dosh to lay down for a Woolies sausage in bread.
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Read more at http://junkee.com/aussie-hero-facing-hug...3Oro8qQ.99

Is Hoody investigating the sausage breach?

Brings back memories of poor Milton - 'Regulation by Poohtube', inspectors sitting around watching clips of plane crashed and fat Russian models tweeting, plus naughty Aussies breaching aviation rules. Wankers.

"Safe $2 sausage treats for all"

Update: Drone sausage sizzle legend goes viral -

&..via 9news.com.au

'Aussie legend's' drone video receives international acclaim

By
nine.com.au staff

Melbourne man has been described a “God damn Australian legend” after flying a drone to pick up a sausage sandwich from Bunnings.

Tim from Melbourne, who posted the video of the stunt to Facebook yesterday, told the TODAY Show he got the idea to send a drone shopping after a few beers with mates.

“It was between a couple of us, we bought a drone just having a bit of a muck around and an afternoon beer and we could smell a barbecue a couple of doors down…and we thought we’ll go to Bunnings, get one of their snags, and then one of the blokes said we should send the drone,” he said.

Tim said he and his mates contemplated several different methods of safely transporting the snack almost 2 kilometres back to his house on the drone, but in the end settled on a simple sandwich bag and string.

“I can’t decide if you’re extremely lazy or extremely innovative, or perhaps both,” host Sylvia Jeffreys said after watching the video.

Karl Stefanovic chimed in on the conversation from New York, labelling the Melbourne man a “God damn Australian legend”.

“You’ll be gainfully employed over here when Donald Trump builds that wall, you’ll be able to get all sorts of things in and out of Tijuana,” Karl said as he impersonated a drone lowering a hotdog into his hands.

While the video proved hugely popular, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority said they would be investigating the flight for breach of drone regulations.

However, Tim insisted he didn’t break any laws filming the stunt.

“We made sure the area was clear, we made sure it didn’t fly over any houses… we considered it safe at the time.

Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/11...SGYoAeT.99

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