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.
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?"
"The Control Panel"?
"I guess that's what controls the drone."
"Did I just get a drone in the mail?"
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 .
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