Even more oddities spotted in the news

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Well, they've convicted the person who flew a drone into a firefighting aircraft during last month's Palisades wildfire. He pled guilty, so he won't be going to jail, but he has to pay for the repairs to the aircraft and perform 150 hours of community service. (No word on whether that service includes cleaning up the damage done by the fire while the water bomber was on the ground being repaired instead of fighting the fire.)

Some background about the drone pilot, courtesy of The Register:

Not only is he one of the founders of game developer Treyarch, which was acquired by Activision and became one of the studios behind the Call of Duty franchise, but he's also the president of Skydance Interactive, a Skydance Media subsidiary that develops VR apps and video games for the media giant. Oh - and Akemann also holds a PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley.

So, not some random teenager who was too stupid to realize what he was doing.