Drone crashes through woman's apartment window
Drone fails aren't new (especially around the holidays when no one knows how to properly control their newly purchased flying device), but having one crash through your apartment window is still shocking.
A woman in New York City was jolted to attention on Sunday evening when a GoPro camera drone crashed into her high-rise apartment window, according to local news reports.
The drone smashed through the glass of the 27th-floor window in Manhattan, missing the 66-year-old woman by just four feet, according to the New York Post. A neighbor who lives in the floor above thought someone had jumped out of the window.
Fortunately the woman wasn't hit by the drone, unlike the unlucky guy who last year got smacked in the head by one.
In New York City you can't just take your drone out wherever you want -- but there are designated city park areas for model aircraft enthusiasts.
The owner of this particular drone is unknown, but it sounds like the device was the type included in a GoPro recall last year, when they were suddenly losing power and falling from the sky.
Topics New York City
Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
