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‘Flying aliens’ harassing village in Peru are actually illegal miners with jetpacks, cops say (www.vice.com)
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‘Flying aliens’ harassing village in Peru are actually illegal miners with jetpacks, cops say::Authorities announced their theory after visiting the isolated Indigenous community where the attacks took place.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At £380,000 starting price, I have doubts on whether illegal gold miners have the money for that. If they had £380,000 they'd probably be able to bribe their way into legitimacy and still have some money left over.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on who is funding them, and how expansive their operations are. Drug Cartels have been caught using these already. Theyre hardly a controlled product.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Do you have a link? I didn’t find anything to support this when I searched. It sounds far fetched.

[–] BrrooklynMan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you can almost certainly just rent them for a short time.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure you could rent them for the rest of your life if you aren't careful.