WHEN DRONES GO BAD INVESTIGATING INCIDENTS OF ROGUE OPERATIONS
OF PUNTERS AND PONIES
Incident Type: Unlawful Surveillance
Incident Location: Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool, UK
Aircraft Type: Not disclosed
Incident Resolution: Pilot and crew arrested; drone seized
In the 1973 classic “The Sting,” Paul Newman and Robert Redford purportedly develop a system to discover the winner of an out-of-town horse race in real time—before the results are announced publicly. This gives them the ability to always bet on the right horse and earn unlimited winnings.
To finance their plans, they turn to a vicious gangster played by Robert Shaw. However, the whole scheme is, in fact, a con to separate Shaw from a substantial sum of his money, and the claim of
