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Written by steve mookie kong on 2025-02-01 at 19:11

Remember the drone that was flying over the Palisades fires and ended up punching a hole in the wing of a Super Scooper water dumping plane?

The pilot of that DJI drone was 56-year-old Peter Akemann, co-founder of Treyarch, one of the studios that make Call of Duty games (mainly the Black Ops series).

https://www.theverge.com/news/604527/drone-crashed-into-la-wildfire-plane-plea-deal

[#]LAFires #drones #dji #treyarch #CallOfDuty

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Written by MisterArix on 2025-02-01 at 22:56

@mookie They let him off too easy. $65k to reimburse damage to the plane. They need to fine double or treble punitivie damages, because it seems like he can afford it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treble_damages

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Written by steve mookie kong on 2025-02-01 at 23:01

@MisterArix

I agree. Though, this part interests me because this sounds like it’ll be more inline with proper justice:

It is possible that the US District Court will not accept Akemann’s plea agreement, which his lawyers are making jointly with the US Attorney’s Office, in which case he faces a year of prison time, a year of supervised release, and either up to a $100,000 fine or “twice the gross loss resulting from the offense,” whichever is greater.

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