Schadenfreude: noun. Deriving pleasure from another's mishap or misfortune.
The damned prototype spy drone in Texas actually attacked their own SWAT team's armored vehicle. During a photo op!
What the hell are they doing a photo op for, anyway, not to mention buying their own domestic spy drone? Oh, wait. It is Texas.
drones - Salon.com
1 day ago ... Police drone crashes into police SWAT team. A Texas sheriff's office confirms safety concerns about the spread of domestic drones ...
www.salon.com/topic/drones/
The Montgomery County, Texas Sheriff’s Office had planned a big photo opportunity with their newly acquired surveillance drone. It all went horrible wrong wehn, according to the Examiner, “[The] prototype drone was flying about 18-feet off the ground when it lost contact with the controller’s console on the ground. It’s designed to go into an auto shutdown mode…but when it was coming down the drone crashed into the SWAT team’s armored vehicle.” (The SWAT team had suited up, armored vehicle on hand, for the purpose of the photo).
In a time where every major street corner is permanently under police surveillance, where the NSA keeps all of your texts, emails, and web searches, where unreasonable searches and seizures are the norm, not a rare exception, this Salon.com story has me fucking rolling on the floor.
I can't wait for chapter two, where a NYPD undercover squad, trying to infiltrate a mosque in Brooklyn, accidentally arrests a secret FBI squad doing the same thing. Or chapter three, where an illegal domestic CIA team ends up in a shoot out with a secret ATF team trying to take control of domestic pot sales in Washington state.
Schadenfreude - it is not just for happy hour anymore.