On Drones and Hot Air Balloons

I can't make this stuff up, people....

I was at the Santa Rosa Country Club recently.  When I pulled into the drive to park my car, there were a few guys coming in off the course laughing, joking, and all the things guys do and contemplating if they wanted to grab a cold one before going home to their bitchy, demanding wives or go to a topless bar.   

One golf guy was operating an UBER annoying drone right there in the parking lot of the Santa Rosa Country Club buzzing around the golf course.  The thing looked like a giant mosquito and buzzed just as loudly hovering at a space just out of reach to smack it silent. 

The other Beavis and Butthead golfers watched in amazement as they popped open their trunks to dump golf gear and pop open a beer.  "Dude....that is.....uh....soooooo..... kewwwwwl....i...wanna..get...wun.."

The owner/operator of the drone was bragging on how he could control it for a mile away.  All I could envision was a sky full of mechanical mosquitoes where DEET could not repel them and I voted "no" on the recent mosquito tax abatement measure.

Damn...  dumb choice...

Just what we need.  We don't need any more amateur NSA wannabees equipped with pesky, mechanical mosquitoes buzzing around our air space when all we want is to be left alone.  Google has done enough damage to any shred of privacy we may have left.  I should leave the NSA out of it -- they are Google's scapegoat.

Which leads me to hot air balloons.

Everybody thinks they are soooooo pretty and peaceful.  Just fill a bag with hot air and float around the Napa Valley in complete bliss.  Where's the wine, cheese, and Edith Piaf recordings?    Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.

Here's the truth.  The low-hovering hot air balloons scare the crap out of the near by ranch animals and they often charge the property fence line out of fear.  The animals literally go nuts and get tangled in property fence lines trying to escape the perceived threat of some monstrosity coming from the sky.  Ranch owners, in desperate attempts to protect their livestock,  wave guns at the hovering balloonists threatening to shoot the damn tourists dead out of the sky.

Which is worse?  Drones or hot air balloons?  Same?  Or different???