Bah!

September 3, 2014 3:41 PM

Ram is not fond of quadcopter, quadcopter pilot. (SLYT)
posted by griphus (33 comments total)

Finally! A way to annoy nature remotely!
posted by The Whelk at 3:50 PM on September 3, 2014 [10 favorites]

team ram
posted by 2bucksplus at 3:57 PM on September 3, 2014 [8 favorites]

Proving, once and for all, that a ram is a better investment than a quadcopter.
posted by The River Ivel at 3:58 PM on September 3, 2014 [13 favorites]

Up next: a drone that pulls your cat's tail and attempts to ride your dog so your children don't have to.
posted by duffell at 4:01 PM on September 3, 2014 [8 favorites]

Well done, ram.
posted by zzazazz at 4:04 PM on September 3, 2014 [7 favorites]

Christ what an asshole (the pilot, not the ram)! Why harass the ram, who was just innocently rambling around, anyway?
posted by zachlipton at 4:05 PM on September 3, 2014 [9 favorites]

Apparently this is a feral ram, rather than a wild one, but c'mon, don't fuck with animals that aren't fucking with you.
posted by tavella at 4:06 PM on September 3, 2014 [4 favorites]

Lord I was born a ramblin' ram.
posted by griphus at 4:10 PM on September 3, 2014 [11 favorites]

#teamram
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 4:13 PM on September 3, 2014 [4 favorites]

Gotta say it: "You kids get off my lawn!!"
posted by harrietthespy at 4:16 PM on September 3, 2014

This is one of the few youtube videos I've seen where it was fun to read the comments:


What kind of sheep was this? If its a big horn sheep I would pull this video. It could just bring unwanted attention. Those animals are pretty protected. I cant tell if its a native sheep or wild domesticated.

|He's an Arapawa, I let him loose in my forest when the farmer was going to kill him for being too agressive... so all the animal rights trolls can suck it. I saved his ass 

you own a forest O___O

YOUR forest? Get over yourself pompous ass. 

this is my swamp.

|I planted the trees, I own the land, what should I call it genius?

dont be too angry. if you are angry for 1 second for every idiot on internet, you will need to live forever.

Rambro doesn't need protection, he is capable of protecting himself.


posted by anonymisc at 4:32 PM on September 3, 2014 [5 favorites]

"I was looking for the angry ram and when I found him I made him angry and then when I found him again I made him angry and now I am angry at the angry YouTube comments."
posted by Nevin at 4:34 PM on September 3, 2014 [15 favorites]

"I know, let's annoy the already-established-as-aggressive animal that has two hell-prong appendages growing out of its head."

Speaking as a guy who got mauled by a wild boar and has seen most of my own tibias, I would like to nominate this quadcopter pilot for president of the Fucking Idiot Club.
posted by compartment at 4:38 PM on September 3, 2014 [4 favorites]

Is a GoPro video helmet standard issue for piloting video quadcopter?
posted by klarck at 4:46 PM on September 3, 2014

The Blaaaaair Witch Project
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 4:49 PM on September 3, 2014 [4 favorites]

Where's the video where a second guy comes to retrieve both the quadcopter and the seriously injured pilot? Or did they go straight to the Blackhawk helicopter?
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:49 PM on September 3, 2014 [4 favorites]

I don't know why people are acting like this unfair to the ram. That ram finds pleasure in exactly three things: boning lady sheep, eating and smashing things with his head. Maybe even not in that order. That qualifies as a very exciting afternoon for a ram.

source: one year in rural Wales
posted by Mayor Curley at 4:52 PM on September 3, 2014 [48 favorites]

Just innocently eating grass when a copter lands right in front of him. no wonder the ram got pissed off.
posted by greenhornet at 4:52 PM on September 3, 2014

The last few seconds are kind of Blair Witch-y, what with the fallen, silent camera.
posted by bibliowench at 4:54 PM on September 3, 2014

AlonzoMosleyFBI: "Where's the video where a second guy comes to retrieve both the quadcopter and the seriously injured pilot? Or did they go straight to the Blackhawk helicopter?"

It's quadcopters all the way down.
posted by symbioid at 4:55 PM on September 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

This story is old.
posted by cjorgensen at 4:57 PM on September 3, 2014

I've already tried annoying the dogs with a quadrocopter thing while we were out at a cabin . They looked at it, looked at me, and sighed.
posted by fshgrl at 5:04 PM on September 3, 2014 [2 favorites]

The Blaaaaair Witch Project

I'm sorry...

I'm so sorry...

I never should have piloted that drone....
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:25 PM on September 3, 2014 [2 favorites]

I was cheering for the ram the whole way through.
posted by Joe Chip at 5:27 PM on September 3, 2014

Yeah, that's how I react to being filmed too.
posted by mrgoat at 5:39 PM on September 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

Yeah, that's how I react to being filmed too.
posted by mrgoat

'Nuff said.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 5:46 PM on September 3, 2014 [3 favorites]

What's that / It's a unicorn / I've never seen one of those before / Stay back, stay back / I'm sorry.
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:46 PM on September 3, 2014

Once there was a silly old drone
Just couldn't leave his sheep all alone
No-one could condone that drone's tone
He kept buzzin' that that roan*

'Cause he had HIIIIIGH hopes
He had HIIIII-I-I-I-I-IIGH hopes
He had high apple pie in the SKYYYYYYY hopes

So next time you're hasslin'
'Stead of assholin'
Just remember that ram:
Oops, there goes another quad copter --
Oops, there goes another quad copter --
Oops, there goes another quad copter --
DAMN!

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* Yes, I know he's an arapawa
posted by Herodios at 5:53 PM on September 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

Yeah, if he were harassing wildlife it'd be a different matter. But this is a bored domesticated ram the guy let live on his property (assuming the comments are accurate), and I'll bet bringing down a drone and getting all up in a guy's face counts as the best day this ram has had in a long time.
posted by George_Spiggott at 6:21 PM on September 3, 2014

When a copter flies right up to your face,
would you turn your head and cry "What a disgrace!"
No!
I get mad, I get mad, I get mad...
it ain't bad to get mad.
posted by symbioid at 6:40 PM on September 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

Apparently, he didn't mean to fuck with the ram:

Buddhanz11 day ago

+SuperJourneyer lol I wasn't flying that low on purpose, it was quite gusty & the quad was getting blown all over the place

also owning a forest would be cool
posted by pmv at 7:40 PM on September 3, 2014

What I also love about the youtube comments is the rich context.

Dude owns the forest he is dicking around in with his drone and he set the ram loose there to chill. He knows that ram. That ram was a known quantity to him. Hence a certain easy familiarity, down to the "Slow down, boy" and the edging him off with a stick.
posted by pmv at 7:49 PM on September 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

Ownership of the ram has yet to be established. By the ram.
posted by dhartung at 11:05 PM on September 3, 2014 [3 favorites]