Dude who used drone to deliver sausage explains how (and why)

Amid the U.S. election chaos, it's no surprise that great stories *fly* under the radar.

Like the story of an Australian dude known only as "Tim from Melbourne," who used a drone to pick up a sausage sandwich from a nearby hardware store. It's genius.

Tim was having a few beers with mates and messing around with a drone, when the smell of a barbecue from a couple of doors down got them peckish, he told Today on Thursday morning.

Of course they thought about setting up their own grill, but why do all that when hardware store Bunnings Warehouse have sausages cooking out the front?

So they attached a bag onto the drone with money in it, then flew it to Bunnings, located 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) away. Unfortunately, the sausage sandwich came back "freezing," according to Tim.

In even more troubling news, Tim could face a hefty A$9000 (US$6979) fine from the nation's aviation authority. But Tim defended the safety of their unconventional flight.

"As far as we're concerned, it was all pretty safe," he said.

"We made sure the area was clear, we made sure it didn't fly over any houses, things like that. There was a bit of cropping involved to make it look like one big flight, when it was a couple of individual ones."

Whatever happens to Tim, he's still a legend in our eyes.