China farmer uses drone to transport pigs, causing power outage when cables get ensnared
Mountainside farmer blames darkness, low visibility for porker bungle; police say he could face punishment for damaging electricity lines
A farmer in southwestern China who used a drone to transport pigs to be slaughtered ended up with a porker stuck in mid-air and his village out of power for 10 hours.
The calamity happened after the drone’s rope became entangled with an electricity line.
The unidentified farmer was using the drone to lift his pigs and move them from the mountainous area in which he lives to a slaughterhouse in the early morning of January 24.
He said the location of his village in Tongjiang county, Sichuan province makes it inconvenient to transport pigs using vehicles, according to a report on the news outlet The Cover.
However, as the first pig was being transported, it became stuck in the air after the drone’s rope became entangled with a high-voltage line on its way down the mountain.