YC startup Apptonomy is building drones (pictured) that serve as flying security guards.
Forgotten, of course, except among the bidders warring over a vintage four-quart Dazey butter churn with a perfect label and intact fly guard.
Flyer guard David Morris caught the ball before half court, dribbled left, and launched a 40-footer with the 6-foot-8-inch Cardinal on his hip, and missed.
When Robin van Persie of the Netherlands scored his extraordinary goal off a flying header, the guards were looking away.
Deterling promptly signed up to drive the train on the nearest route and plotted "the last train to freedom". On Dec. 5, 1961, Deterling brought his family and friends on board, drained the air from the train's emergency brakes, and steamed at full throttle towards West Berlin, sending startled border guards flying.
I maintain to this day that what happened next was the most awesome thing I've ever seen in my life: one of the guys started flipping up tables all around him, sent canteen trays flying into the guards' faces, hopped up on a chair, scissor kicked two guys either side of him, pounced over another's head and vanished out the door.
Shaquille O'Neal used to bristle at the news media's fascination with high-flying guards — at the expense, of course, of brutish big men.
They can get caught off guard, flying out in a mild spell, then getting chilled by landing on a patch of snow.
Helicopters with armed men leaning out were flying overhead, private security guards and paramilitary forces were attacking people, and houses and crops were being burned.
The flying machine, manned by guards with a glint in their eye, involves being suspended in harnesses on the Hayward balcony where you will be laughed at by other visitors, as well as every passing child on a bus.
His state-provided security guards were flying pretty high, too, spending more than $32,000 in taxpayer money for travel and lodging in San Francisco, $4,400 to dine near the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum in Simi Valley, and $6,400 for plane tickets to San Diego, about 160 miles away, records show.
