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Fisherman called a ‘legend’ for the way he dealt with an intrusive drone

By Matt Naham
Aug 14, 2015

A man fishing off of a pier in San Diego was not exactly pleased when he spotted a drone hovering above.

The unidentified man responded with a long cast that actually hooked the device!

Tice Ledbetter uploaded the video with the theme music from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" playing in the background and wrote "What a jerk! Gotta admit though, that cast was spot on!"

The cast did not pull the drone to water or destroy it, but it did send a pretty clear message. The owner recovered it and had some untangling to do.

Ledbetter called the man a “jerk” for his cast, but the general consensus among Internet commenters is that the drone operator was in the wrong, not the fisherman.

One commenter wrote “That guy is a legend!”

Read more at Rare.us.

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