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A high school student mistakenly receives a military drone for more than 300,000 euros

  
Source: U.S Federal Gouvernment-Wikicommons
 An American  high school student mistakenly received a military drone and shared his  surprise in photos, on the internet, under the ironical title "I think I  received a drone in the mail". 
What are the chances of mistakenly receiving an object worth more than 300,000 euros? Such statistics are difficult to determine is the least that can be said, nevertheless it is the funny story that happened to an anonymous student. The latter was awarded by the home delivery company UPS, an ultrasophisticated drone with an exact value of 309,000 euros. He then decided to post the photos of the machine on Imgur and Reddit's image sharing sites under the title "I think I received a drone in the mail".
"The package arrived alone in its box"
While the high school student had simply ordered a cardboard box (see image below), the latter received the famous drone in his transport case accompanied by a card bearing the inscription "Federal property of the United States" followed by The address to which to return a lost object. "The package arrived alone in its box, the cardboard next door was my order in fact," he explained on his webpage.
Source: Seventy Seven
 The  student then posted a series of photographs, detailing, in a more or  less approximate way, the different parts to be assembled in order to  make the apparatus functional.
 "Wings?" 
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 "The Control Panel"?
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 "I guess that's what controls the drone."
"Did I just get a drone in the mail?" 
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 An error from the UPS home delivery service provider
The  different parts of the drone were sent to the boy by the National Ocean  and Atmospheric Administration, in French the American Oceanic and  Atmospheric Observing Agency, who explained to the Motherboard site that  the delivery was a mistake of the home delivery service provider. The  object is actually a "Puma Drone" and the agency in question uses it to  measure the amount of waste in the ocean, to study seabirds or to  observe the marine weather in 3D .

These love stories that end in drama

 

Oh, Valentine's Day! Declarations of love, candle-lit dinners, bouquets of roses delivered at home. Snapshots, you might say. Is right. Indeed, the couple is not necessarily synonymous with tender love and exchanges of enamored looks. In this February 14, here are some examples of love that go wrong.  

4.000 km to sail to take a rake
The intention appeared beautiful and romantic, but led him to prison. A Turk traveled nearly 4,000 kilometers sailing last November to marry a young English girl he had met a few years earlier. But his beloved, who has always refused his advances and married in the meantime, has not agreed to see his sigh. Worse, frightened by the insistence of the gentleman, she preferred to warn the authorities. The man was arrested as soon as he arrived in British waters, after seven months of a hectic journey, and placed in a detention center.  

She emasculates her husband with a kitchen knife
Jealousy was too strong. In September 2012, a Peruvian woman decided to cut the penis of her unfaithful husband, using a kitchen knife, while the latter was asleep in a hotel room. She then threw the organ into the toilet, before being questioned by the police, who had been alerted by the hotel staff. The husband was admitted to the hospital for intensive care. 

Stabbed because of "The Voice"
"The Voice" really unleashes all the passions. So after the last episode of the 2012 season, a couple came to the hands in Nangis (Seine-et-Marne). Supporting each a different singer apprentice, the tension rose gradually until the 35-year-old woman grabbed a knife to stab her companion twice in the shoulder. His days were not in danger. In December 2011, it was "Koh-Lanta" that provoked a violent fight in a couple of Tours. 

A meeting on the Internet that ends in the plate
He had invited him to cook, in the true sense of the word. A 21-year-old Russian was arrested in August 2011 for murder and cannibalism. He had invited a man contacted to a dating site, stabbed him before eating him, for a whole week, in the form of steaks, sausage or croquettes. According to the investigation committee in charge of the case, the only motive of the murderer was simply "to taste human meat". 

He invites his girlfriend to watch an episode of "Dexter" and cutting it with an ax
"Dexter" would give him cravings for murder? The body of a 31-year-old woman who had gone to her boyfriend's house in December 2010 to watch an episode of the series, was found nearly a month later cut with an ax and poured into cement . The couple would have argued, and the man would beat his companion to death before panicking and causing the body to disappear.