When you opt to do the drone delivery, you’re actually taken to an overhead view to select the location you want it dropped. This is 100% whoever filmed this choosing to dump it in the pool.
Do we know that for sure? I can see how a misunderstanding could literally happen. Someone might not realize that the drone is literally going to just drop the object without losing altitude
To be fair, if I got an Amazon drone delivery, I'd film it just because it's exciting. Maybe some people are used to it, but I've never seen one in real life.
Or filming it for the second time to prove that it did drop it in the pool the first time. Threads critical of mega corps important new services/products get the astro treatment all the time. Look at anyone about robo taxis.
But on the other hand the delivery and drone are note worthy enough that you could justify filming the delivery anyways though. It's not like just anybody is able to do this yet
Other things that are not included on the satellite image include people, pets, vehicles, all kinds of things that suffer harm if a package is dropped on them. It is a completely inadequate way to direct packages.
You're right. The flex drivers will just fling it at your door, or take a picture and then steal it.
Or in one case, my parents made the mistake of ordering food around the same time, and got a late notification of arrival. The Flex driver delivering a package took a picture, stole BOTH the package and the food, and just drove off.
Had no idea there was a camera in the upper corner.
I'm not exactly welcoming of our robot overlords, but at least when they fuck it up, it isn't intentional.
This happened to be oddly enough this morning. I had diapers delivered super early because we were going on a trip and I had a brain fart yesterday and bought the wrong size.
My garage has a pretty big space in between the 2 spots. Most people leave packages there. I have a flood light directly above it. When I went to get them, they were gone. I don’t think she realized the flood light doubles as a camera, so I saw her put 4 huge boxes down, take a picture, and then load them back in her trunk. It was like 200 dollars worth of diapers.
As a result I had to go to the store anyways and had to file a complaint with Amazon. Not exactly the way i wanted to start our trip.
I don't understand the second part of the theft. It's not like she can take the 4 huge boxes of diapers back to the depot and load them in her car. Does she drop them somewhere? Does a friend meet her and take them? Like... of all the things to steal, bulky, heavy diapers seems like so inconvenient?
Today is day one, traveling all day. Now that we’re here, should be much better. Traveling with a toddler is more difficult than we realized, it’s like traveling while having a portable hurricane in the vicinity. I can’t wait for our little dude to go to sleep for the night haha
Don’t you have to mark the drop area yourself? I couldn’t possibly imagine someone deliberately marking their pool to take a video and post it for internet points….
I mean what am I gonna go? Just all of a sudden hop on Reddit and lie for karma, like it's- like it's something to do? Come on, I got a little more sense than that... Yeah I remember hopping on Reddit and lying for karma.
You specify an area on your property, like driveway, front or back yard, etc... it's not like a pinpoint target. My coworker has gotten a few deliveries this way and it did miss once. His backyard is fenced in, and it delivered outside the fence, which is a hillside. The package ended up sliding down the hill. There wasn't any sort of picture of where it got dropped off and if he hadn't seen it happen he would have had no idea where it went.
You have to designate a spot in your yard specifically for the drone to drop the package. Op purposefully made it drop the package in the pool for karma
In some cases, the objective is to pump up an account's karma and then repurpose / sell it. An account with a lot of karma can afford to lose a lot of karma (going below a certain amount restricts how you can use the site). Such accounts are useful for troll farms.
Actually it does pay you nowadays if you have reddit premium and/or get wawards I think, but overall Twitter ragebait is probably a way better payout.
But allegedly corpos and government psy-ops do pay for high karma accounts according to multiple comments on Reddit, don’t know how true that is though
WTF IS THAT?? Thats REAL? Have I been living under a rock??? Some guy out here in the country is going to lose his shit and think UFOs are real because of that thing!!
Honestly I think the vast majority of the world is gonna be pretty calm about aliens/UFOs at this point.
Like we could have a legion of spacedwellers come down to earth 1970's apocalypse movie style, and most of us will are gonna be like... 'Dude, why are you here, this place sucks.'
Bro, so much off the wall unprecedented stuff has happened in just the last 6 years from 2020 to 2026. If aliens legit just showed up I would just be like "yeah, that tracks...".
Somebody already got arrested for shooting at one.
I live in an area with these and I HATE them. It feels so dystopian hearing them and watching them whiz by throughout the day. It's also upsetting watching them flying at the same height as the local birds, who I have to imagine are like, "what the fuck".
I would be afraid to let that thing around animals, I would worry it would drop something on one. Dog is relatable though 😭 Do y'all get a notification or option to chose this or do they just do that?
I see them near where I work. there must be a warehouse nearby that does them. before we know it, drones will be everywhere and it will be common on cities and suburbs. I first saw one maybe 3 months ago. Now its almost every day driving home.
I don't understand people want this lol, imagine hearing those mosquitos all the damn time. Now they're in your yard and flying over your house too. Geez.
Saw a clip not long ago where a good ole boy was arrested for it. He was just happily telling the cop he shot at it. Cop read him his Miranda and he kept telling him about how he shot it
He asked at one point “am I in a lot of trouble” and the cop plainly said “yea, you’re in a lot of trouble”
They aren't yet. Used to work at one of the companies Walmart was testing with and it was 3 guys running a tent in the parking lot for like 10 hours of the day receiving only like 1 order for less than $5 delivery fee (a box of oreos was the most common thing delivered), had to send a guy to go shop and bring it out to box it up while the other guys prepared the drone and flight plan. And they still had to send a guy in a truck to maintain visual line of sight to it. Now i think they have FAA waivers. But yea definitely not profitable then.
They do now however have some home bases that are fully automated towers of drone launch sites. That might only be in the Bentonville location right now.
I still agree though that I think doing last mile with this is a gimmick, but it paid well while it lasted lol. IMO the best place for this specific tech is like heart transplant delivery across town hospital to hospital. The cost of that delivery would actually be worth while and the speed and in theory lower risk of like getting into a car accident on the way while carrying it for example I think would make it a good idea.
The drones probably aren't a net positive in revenue as the technology is newer, more expensive. But the theoretical savings for a mature technology is immense. Particularly in lower volume areas. You fly the most inconvenient packages and deliver the rest by truck. Similarly these work well in urgent deliveries. When I worked as an HVAC apprentice half the job was driving to the job site and the other half was driving to the parts store.
Not so much saving as they are getting field test data for a potential future service option. Finding a way to make it a cost-saving measure is meaningless if they can’t get it functional in the first place, among other details that would need to be ironed out.
I've used drone delivery before (tbf it was Zipline, not Amazon) and it lets you pick a drop off location based on a satellite image of your property. It's always extremely precise with the drop off location.
I can't say for sure, but my gut tells me this person picked their pool as the drop off and then filmed it for internet points.
Delivery drones should be illegal. Imagine if every delivery service you saw in a day was a screaming noisy drone. That’s not a future any of us want to live in surely.
I was just thinking about that the other day. So I started counting, using the videos captured by my doorbell camera and two other cameras on the left and right side of my house. They allowed me to see 11 houses to my left and 15 houses to my right... so 27 house(my own house included) I was quite surprised. During that one day(a Thursday), there were a little over 90 deliveries. 47 were UPS, Amazon, USPS, Fedex. 11 were no-name white delivery trucks delivering boxes. 9 were cars, delivering what appeared to be stuff from the local Walmart store. The rest were were food deliveries.
It would be even worse than just the amount of delivery services you see. Sometime a van pulls up and delivers multiple packages in my street. If those where all drone deliveries it would be multiple drones all carrying 1 package instead of just one van.
I really don't want drones dropping my stuff from 10 feet up. When the delivery people drop stuff, it is going to be a maximum of 3 feet, but most of them actually take a moment to open the gate and put the package on my porch swing.
You have to pick where you wanted to drop it off. It's like a 10-ft square that can't be obstructed, have power lines nearby etc.
And then you have to pick that you want this particular thing to be delivered by drone.
This looks a lot like the homeowners moved there drop off point to be the pool and then filmed it and dropping it into the pool. Unless they also share their settings page to show that it's supposed to be in the front yard or whatever, this looks like just screwing with the system and they're going to be found out and banned from the drone program at least.
I hate this whole thing. They are literally only available in one small town in Texas.... That is it. They have not expanded at all...
It's a PR scam imo just so they can claim they have it
Edit- apparently they expanded since I last bothered to care about it. For a long time it was indeed a small college town in Texas that had the pilot program.
I see some kind of large drones almost daily. flying to or from the same location. I cant see if they are amazon or not, but its something. Could be police maybe? Either way, in 10 years these things will be everywhere and you wont know who or why is flying it over us.
The Walmarts near me both have drone delivery as an option. Amazon is talking about doing the same in my area. Most packages are same day delivery already if ordered before 2pm.
So you told them to drop it there by picking that spot on you property to have it dropped, they did as you specifically requested and you're vexed about it? Quite Perplexing
Shooting a drone is legally no different than shooting at a commercial airliner. It’s a serious felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison and/or $250,000 fine. The FAA is very serious about these cases too.
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u/ComfortablyNomNom 5h ago
Well. That's certainly something a normal human delivery person probably wouldn't do. At least not right in front of you.
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u/AmountNew2152 5h ago
enjoy your cat litter sir or madam
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u/shaky2236 5h ago
"oh boy, I cant wait for my 5090 delivery"
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u/Wowkotobo 4h ago
Don’t you have to mark the drop area yourself? I couldn’t possibly imagine someone deliberately marking their pool to take a video and post it for internet points….
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u/ImBitterAndAlone 5h ago
You have to designate a spot in your yard specifically for the drone to drop the package. Op purposefully made it drop the package in the pool for karma
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u/Representative_Ad312 5h ago
You are literally able to select the drop point, this is for views
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u/GlitterFactoryOfDoom 5h ago
It totally could be worse to be fair...
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u/silly_scoundrel 5h ago
WTF IS THAT?? Thats REAL? Have I been living under a rock??? Some guy out here in the country is going to lose his shit and think UFOs are real because of that thing!!
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u/RiderFZ10 2h ago
It pooped in the pool
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u/ybtlamlliw 4h ago
I refuse to believe they're saving money with these drones, they have to be performing surveillance as well
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u/CretaciousPeriod 5h ago
Don't you set where the drop off point is? If so, they set it there and then put a pool up. The drone likely has no idea it's water.
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u/Saber_is_a_joke 4h ago
Stop choosing delivery in your pool/garage/detached carports/over rivers/on boats etc and posting fake outrage on the internet.
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u/Oraphielle 4h ago
What most people don’t realize is that to accept drone delivery you need to mark a spot that you can have it dropped.
This guy marked the pool to do it.
Why else would they be recording before it even happened? They did it on purpose. It isn’t automatic.
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u/Deep90 5h ago
Probably not the best to order drone delivery if you have power lines, a (clothing line?), and a pool.
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u/AppropriatePlum1006 4h ago
Trained on FedEx deliverers.
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u/Signal-Blackberry994 2h ago
One good thing about living near an airport these things won't be allowed anywhere near my house.
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u/captnrosco 5h ago
"Would you like to tip your driver?"
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u/PickedLastLemon 2h ago
Still waiting on my delivery of affordable healthcare.
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u/rcuadro 5h ago
Isn't the costumer the one that tells the drone where to drop it off by placing a pin on a map?
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u/ToTouchAnEmu 4h ago
I've used drone delivery before (tbf it was Zipline, not Amazon) and it lets you pick a drop off location based on a satellite image of your property. It's always extremely precise with the drop off location.
I can't say for sure, but my gut tells me this person picked their pool as the drop off and then filmed it for internet points.
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u/wivaca2 4h ago
I'm guessing they weren't delivering pool supplies.
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u/Fishfindr 1h ago
Keep those things out of my neighborhood please.
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u/dylman3000 3h ago
Delivery drones should be illegal. Imagine if every delivery service you saw in a day was a screaming noisy drone. That’s not a future any of us want to live in surely.
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u/Cool_Butterscotch_88 5h ago
Cover your pools people (the drones LOVE em).
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u/direwolf9900 5h ago
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u/Routine_Dimension_33 4h ago
Lioks like it was taking a dump
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u/Dale_Dickson 4h ago
I never realized autonomous drones shitting in our pools would be a problem one day. Wild.
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u/DancesWithInkPens 3h ago
I really don't want drones dropping my stuff from 10 feet up. When the delivery people drop stuff, it is going to be a maximum of 3 feet, but most of them actually take a moment to open the gate and put the package on my porch swing.
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u/Emergency-College578 5h ago
Did you tell them you had a pool?
You should send them the exact coordinates of the pool.
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u/ThMcRbIsbck 4h ago
I just want to know why it high speeds to the edge of the pool once it hits the water…
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u/ziggytrix 5h ago
Toilet trained, and all!
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u/proud-girldad 4h ago
It’s the customers dumbass fault
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u/Farty_McPartypants 4h ago
I can’t wait until Amazon come shit deliveries into my garden 😂
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u/UltraHypnosis 3h ago
Not in the pool... Damn it.
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u/shanksisevil 3h ago
Congrats on your new rtx 5090 card!
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u/MarksBroz 5h ago
Rather symbolic of the current state of society
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u/MeowCatPlzMeowBack 5h ago
Okay, but the way it nonchalantly flies off like it’s done a good job has me cackling lol
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u/MadmanBST 5h ago
It's a good thing all you ordered was a pool floaty
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u/modsRincels1985 4h ago
Drone just took a shit in your pool, laughed and flew off.
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u/AlarmingDiamond9316 4h ago
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u/shoobe01 2h ago
You have to sign up for drone delivery.
You have to pick where you wanted to drop it off. It's like a 10-ft square that can't be obstructed, have power lines nearby etc.
And then you have to pick that you want this particular thing to be delivered by drone.
This looks a lot like the homeowners moved there drop off point to be the pool and then filmed it and dropping it into the pool. Unless they also share their settings page to show that it's supposed to be in the front yard or whatever, this looks like just screwing with the system and they're going to be found out and banned from the drone program at least.
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u/Objective_Language_6 1h ago
This is so unreal I actually thought it HAD to be AI for a sec
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u/SubstantialHouse8013 36m ago
That is fucking hilarious.
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u/trupoogles 5h ago
worms voice “INCOMING”
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u/Frank__West 5h ago edited 1h ago
I hate this whole thing. They are literally only available in one small town in Texas.... That is it. They have not expanded at all...
It's a PR scam imo just so they can claim they have it
Edit- apparently they expanded since I last bothered to care about it. For a long time it was indeed a small college town in Texas that had the pilot program.
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u/GreenMachine1913 5h ago
Hope there's not a toaster in there
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u/spicy_feather 5h ago
Nailed it
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u/dbvirago 5h ago
Nailed it
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u/myveryownaccount 5h ago
Is this just a weird angle? Or are those delivery drones actually that big? It looks huge!
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u/probablydeadsooon 5h ago
Can't wait for our skys to be filled with all this garbage flying through the air, I'm tired boss
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u/Substantial-Tart-464 5h ago
drone's already hate their delivery job also.
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u/Ill-Bullfrog-5360 4h ago
Hmmm i beta tested these things. You tell it where to place the landing
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u/Sethmeisterg 4h ago
It's a brown baby boy!!!!
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u/datura_slurpy 4h ago
So you have to set up the landing zone. This was clearly setup by someone intentionally for the likes. Good for you.
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u/jfq722 4h ago
When it absolutely, positively has to be there soaking wet.
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u/peroxidase2 3h ago
It pooped it on the toilet. Good boy.
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u/Apolllo69 3h ago
Power lines, a pool and a drone. What could go wrong?
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u/AnTTr0n 3h ago
How is this shit even allowed?
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u/KoutaFox 3h ago
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u/SplendiferousSpinach 2h ago
Amazon prime air lets you pick where to deliver the package, I feel like this is on whoever was recording...
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u/Loose_Anywhere1147 1h ago
TASK FAILED SUCCESSFULLY!
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u/rusty0004 1h ago
that's exactly why we need at least 100-150 to have flying cars
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u/thelaceserpent 1h ago
That robot took a shit in your pool!
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u/VichaelMick 5h ago
So you told them to drop it there by picking that spot on you property to have it dropped, they did as you specifically requested and you're vexed about it? Quite Perplexing
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u/irwtkyrm 5h ago
Oh so water landings are fine for NASA but you're too good for them? Get over yourself /s
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u/BlackwingF91 5h ago
Noisy and terrible at putting stuff in the right spot all whole making air traffic worse! Waow
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u/dumbaldoor 5h ago
Shoot it down and reverse engineer it
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u/zenmatrix83 5h ago
it was a water landing, maybe it was fragile and the water cushioned the fall