Originally Posted by
tarwheel
Talk about strange - I almost got hit by a drone riding home this afternoon. Some teenage kid was standing out in the street with some kind of control device in his hands. Next thing you know, this helicopterish device comes wizzing past me, almost hitting my head. That was a first.
Helicpterish, RC aircraft, toy helicopter, toy RC aircraft, quadcopter, tricopter, all proper terminology for what almost hit you. "Drone" is something the military fly which the media picked up as a buzzword because "drone" is far more ominous than "toy helicopter" to elicit emotional responses to their crappy journalism. Please don't call them "drones". I doubt it was the size of a car and doubt it had missiles or weaponry mounted on it for killing in a warzone.