# UPS delivers a drone to an unexpecting guy in Montana **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 6, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768 "2014-05-06T01:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/41 "2014-05-07T22:38:06Z")
The Japanese use a alfabet? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/42 "2014-05-07T23:41:24Z")
I might send it back. But I’d sure as hell fly it around the neighborhood for a while first. C’mon, you know you would, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/43 "2014-05-07T23:47:12Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > I’ve rethought my stance. I want to see the effect of explosions on all kinds of weather phenomena. Arm the NWS now! **Give the local news weatherman a rocket launcher too.** Are you fucking kidding me? Have you seen how inaccurate those guys are? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/44 "2014-05-08T00:30:08Z")
I think you CAN blow up a tornado, but not with a piddly little bomb like this pussy drone could carry. Seriously, take your average size funnel cloud, drop a ten ton blockbuster into it, and I’ll bet you could disturb the airflow in the immediate vicinity enough to collapse the funnel. Seriously, we need to station heavy bombers all around the midwest to try this out! Oh, and I guess build some more giant conventional bombs too. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/45 "2014-05-08T00:40:13Z")
Tinker AFB in Midwest City probably has some on hand ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/46 "2014-05-09T17:20:21Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > I really hope that NOAA isn’t using armed drones. Can you blow up a tornado? Tornados and explosives? This is a job for the Mythbusters! > [@Zebra](#): > > **SHARKNADO II: REVENGE of the DRONES** The contest to name the sequel is over. It’s _[Sharknado 2: The Second One](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharknado_2:_The_Second_One)_ :dubious: There are rumors of a third one to name though. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/47 "2014-05-09T23:37:23Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > Tornados and explosives? . Just another day in the O K C ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/48 "2014-05-10T01:13:09Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > Arm the NWS now! > [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Tinker AFB in Midwest City probably has some [large bombs] on hand Well, NOAA _does_ include a small paramilitary officer corps… but forward-controlling for dropping bombs on tornadoes is probably more excitement than they signed up for 😛 ---
**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/49 "2014-05-11T03:15:01Z")
I’m not surprised. UPS sent me a card telling me they could not find my adress. I called them up and told them to send me another card but tape it to my package. Seriously, they were going to send it back unless I came to pick it up. Apparently they don’t have a working GPS, any maps, or anyone capable of reading street signs because there are only four roads in my town and the number is on three sides of my mailbox AND my house. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/50 "2014-05-12T05:23:34Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > UPS delivers a drone to an unexpecting guy in Montana I would hazard that most drone deliveries are unexpected. Generally much less welcome though. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/51 "2014-05-16T19:46:34Z")
It’d be really cool if he stuck a note on it and then programmed it to fly back to their headquarters. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/52 "2014-05-16T22:34:08Z")
Actually he only received part of the full drone. So getting it to fly wouldn’t be very cool it would be a miracle ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768/53 "2014-05-16T22:56:50Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Actually he only received part of the full drone. So getting it to fly wouldn’t be very cool it would be a miracle He might have got the whole thing if he kept his mouth shut. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ups-delivers-a-drone-to-an-unexpecting-guy-in-montana/687768.md?page=2)