Ending an Albania-Serbia Game and Inciting a Riot with a Drone

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28 points·ilamont··7 comments

Egh... Just goes to show what a little media-twist can do to make someone like this famous, or "noble". Doing something that has a very high chance of inciting a riot because your feelings were hurt over hooligans burning your flag half a decade ago doesn't sound like a noble thing to do.

Anywho, anyone have any stats/info about how many individuals had to be taken to a hospital over this incident? I couldn't find anything credible.

Admittedly, it's not the fault of the operator: it sounds like the entire arena was full of equally dishonorable people ready to start a fight. ;)

That sounds like a much bigger problem to me.

I like the title. Sounds like a "Do it yourself" tutorial.

A drone is fully autonomous. If you are remotely controlling the craft it is unmanned. I guess referring to a multirotor as a "UAV" just doesn't grab people like "drone".

I saw this game live last year. It was one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen in a football match.

The Libertadores Boca Jrs-River plate match also ended in a similar fashion.

The difference I see is that ordinary futbol ultras aren't backed by armies so there's a different limit on how far things can escalate in a club match. Serbia-Albania [1] created an international incident.

[1]: Editorial mistake by The New York Times as the tradition in football fixtures is to list home team first.

Here's a poorly made video of the incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4s3qWYEm1o

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