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I just thought it was silliness, really--a publicity stunt for free advertisement, like this Amazon thing-a-ma-bob!

Restaurants can''t leave packets of condiments out because people will rob them blind--they're gonna let loose a helicopter and trust that some drunks who are hungry and have no money won't shoot it down or grab it with giant net (even a sheet would work) and steal the pizza? Same deal with Amazon--a thief may rob the copter in hopes of getting something good, or at least something that can be easily fenced!

NBC news had it: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/dominos-domicopter-drone-can-deliver-two-large-pepperonis-6C10182466

Faux Snooze had it: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/money/2013/06/05/pizza-delivery-by-helicopter-dominos-introduces-domi-copter/

Also, the Domino's experiment took place in UK, not USA...so there's that, too....


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336324/Dominos-builds-DRONE-deliver-pizzas-air-beat-traffic.html

Watching people bringing down the Domino's Pizza drone with a well aimed rock, so they can chow down on free pizza.

However, I can tell you that that won't be as big a problem as you'd imagine. They'd only have to do that ONCE before they realized that free Domino's pizza is not worth the effort needed to throw the rock. It would make more sense to just spread cheese whiz on the rock and eat IT instead.

And the sauce is made with battery acid!!!!

Another difference is, you can actually order decent shit through amazon.

Dominos, all you're going to get is some of the world's shittiest pizza.

I just heard on the news that UPS is getting into the drone-coptor game, too.

I can see these things running down little kids on the playground in five years!!!!!

"Aggggggggggh!!!!!!! Run, Forest, RUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!"

Only with DRUGSTORE deliveries.

It's only a matter of time before these cheap-assed pizza outlets realize that, as much fun as it may be to pay some poor schmuck minimum wage with no benefits to deliver pizza, they can save a hell of a lot MORE money if they fire him, and buy a cheap piece of South Korean-made consumer electronics for $50, and get IT to deliver the pizza.

The skies will soon be blackened with thermal pizza bags dangling from toy helicopters, and it's only a matter of time before the Domino's drone crashes into the Godfather's drone, and the Pizza 222 drone crashes into the Little Caesar's drone...and soon the streets will wring with the cheers of the peasant consumers being showered with free junk food.

It'll be like that scene from the mini-series ROME, where Caesar returns to Rome and goes around the streets in a cart, throwing handfuls of gold coins to the peasants, and Cato says "What a horrible sound these Plebs make when they're happy..."

Maybe everyone just wishes they would crawl back into their hole.

sprinkling Parmazan cheese on the drone, and eating it instead. That's probably what they're afraid will happen, which is why they'll never do this.

You've got to hand it to Domino's Pizza, though. They've got some nerve! Remember a few years ago when they launched a big publicity campaign to A) Admit their pizza is the crappiest pizza in the universe, and B) trumpet the fact that they're going to TRY to make it less revolting. (Presumably by putting less cardboard in the pizza dough?)

I mean, that really takes some first class Gaul! To make a hideously bad product, and STILL manage to stay in business because, as the saying goes, "pizza is like sex, even when it's bad it's still pretty good." Then you get to sell even MORE of the crap by mounting a publicity campaign saying "we know our product tastes as bad as cheese whiz and catchup smeared on cardboard, but we're THINKING about possibly doing something to improve it....maybe."

ROFL