WATCH THE NIGHT SKY Danger lurks - warning Last night on my terrace in New York, enjoying the gentle breezes and texting friends in the dark on a lawn chair with my dog, Manny, by my side, I heard a buzzing like a loud bee around me – nowhere - but buzzing. I could even feel the buzzing. Texting, and not alarmed, although ready to swat and thinking the dog had disturbed a resting bumble bee in the dark from under its night-resting-leaf, I continued to tap away, the light of my cell reflecting in my face in the night. The buzzing subsided, as did my preoccupation with invading insects, only to have the same episode repeated a few moments later. Then, all time froze. Goose bumps. Terror. As I looked up from my cell phone for the first time, there, about 8 feet in front of me was a celestial. Yup, a triangle about two feet by two feet by two feet, with four rows of red down one side and an equal number of matching green lights down the other. I jumped up. When it saw me, it zoomed straight up at frightening speed, buzzing up, up and away as it jumped out, dancing across the night of my terrace, then looped up and across the street and even higher until it was a blur of lights, hovering over the opposite building. It then quickly disappeared between two exhaust pipes on the facing co-op. I could not walk. Every hair on my body was erect. “WTF,” I screamed, alone on a roof terrace. I forced my night vision and cursed the darkness. Then, slowly it emerged from its hiding place and floated along the roof tops out in the direction of LaGuardia airport, then lopped up and around and came right back, buzzing again like the giant-bee-it-is-not, across my terrace, hovering over me in the night sky. It seemed to be – extra terrestrial, and scary – very interested in my cell phone. When I reached up, jumping, stupidly, bravely, (Skip what are you thinking, this is a space ship) it again zoomed up high above me to tear off in the night sky toward the opposite apartment house. I started photographing it with my cell phone: I got in four quick shots. Folks, it is not extra-terrestrial, no, not at all. As it turns out it is a $2000, night-vision, perfectly legal, personal DRONE, spying on my cell number or night activity on a terrace (had it hoverd outside my bathroom window in the past?) or with its telescopic lens… the contents of my apartment. This is another reason I have a 119-pound Maremma, called Manny. Welcome to the wacky world of 2014.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:59:06 +0000
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