Drunk droning by Gov’t employee responsible for White House drone crash!

In the process of what officials describe as ‘nothing more than a drunken misadventure…’

No, this isn’t the Onion.

WASHINGTON — It was 42 degrees and raining lightly around 3 a.m. on Monday when an inebriated off-duty employee for a government intelligence agency decided it was a good time to fly his friend’s drone, a 2-foot-by-2-foot “quadcopter” that sells for hundreds of dollars and is popular among hobbyists.

But officials say the plan was foiled, perhaps by wind or a tree, when the employee — who has not been named by the Secret Service or charged with a crime — lost control of the drone as he operated it from an apartment just blocks from the White House.

He texted his friends, worried that the drone had gone down on the White House grounds, and then went to sleep. It was not until the next morning, when he woke and learned from friends that a drone had been found at the White House, that he contacted his employer, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. He then called the Secret Service and immediately began cooperating with an investigation into the incident…Read more at the NYT.

Washington D.C…Nothing more than a drunken misadventure, indeed!

Meanwhile, yesterday we learned that The Justice Department has been building a real-time database to track hundreds of millions of vehicles across the country. Yeah, “hundreds of millions!”