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Everyone crashed their new holiday drone

Drones: what gloriously frustrating gift.

Colin Daileda

on December 26, 2016

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Few things define the holidays like the fading whine of a newly-gifted drone as it floats ever farther away, over branches and out of sight, where it will eventually smack into a tree and smash into the ground.

Many people have given and received drones this holiday season. Many of those people have also watched as their presents -- in minutes -- turned into husks of their former selves.

Drones are hard, but hopefully we can all have a collective laugh at just how gloriously frustrating they can be as a holiday gift.

Many people, for example, tried to bring down the Christmas tree with their new toys.

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Others are generalists, and aimed for any tree in sight.

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@RachelGriffiith update: he got it working again, and immediately got it stuck in the top of a huge tree.
— Rachel Griffith 🎃 (@RachelGriffiith) December 25, 2016

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Others said, who needs a tree when there's so much hair atop human heads?

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And then there were those who didn't crash their drones so much as find ways of misplacing them.

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So, before you decide to keep that drone you find in your backyard or your park or on your roof or on your street, maybe check Twitter. It's gotta be someone's.

And if you want to continue laughing at the misfortune of new drone owners, check out @faineg's timeline.

Colin Daileda

Colin is Mashable's US & World Reporter. He previously interned at Foreign Policy magazine and The American Prospect. Colin is a graduate from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. When he's not at Mashable, you can most likely find him eating or playing some kind of sport.