Hope they crash and get nursed back to health by the indigenous people, undergo a spiritual awakening, and lead a violent uprising against the mining company.
Oh, it’s just miners with jetpacks… Wait, wtf?!
Commercial jetpacks are available for some time now, there are even jetpack attractions.
Miners are the last people in my mind that would use jetpacks. I mean, they’re usually deep underground, right?
Not when they’re harassing villagers obviously
I feel like underground mines are more and more a thing of thr past, I have seen many an operating surface mine but only old mines that were converted to attractions.
Aliens sounds more believable than that
Miners with jetpacks sounds like something straight out of a Commodore 64 game
I was thinking the same thing. Even in Dubai they barely use them and now you’re telling me it’s a common commodity for illegal miners in Peru. Ya right.
The miners are not Peruvian nationals. It takes a lot of capital to sneak into the Peruvian jungle and start mining.
I’m a bit dubious about the jetpacks but the rest - that miners are trying to scare Indigenous locals - is legit, and it’s far from the first time this has happened.
I’ve never even seen one in practical use in Dubai. The most I’ve seen are prototypes of lab designs.
Obviously they doesn’t want sand to get everywhere in Dubai.
Commercial jetpacks are available for some time now, there are even jetpack attractions.
You keep saying that like you expect us to believe you…
I wish I was a flying miner pretending to be an alien so that I could harass villagers in Peru. That would be so awesome.
For the jetpack doubters (I was one too), someone posted this link on slashdot. Scroll down a bit and you’ll see a picture of a girl who snapped a picture on her phone of what is very clearly a guy in a jetpack of some kind. The theory is the miners use them to scout new locations to see if enough minerals are present to clear a road to them.
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It’s never aliens, unfortunately.
Aliens make more sense than ilegal miners flying in jetpacks.
I’m doubting either explanation in this case.
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The cops were watching Scooby Doo, and were like “Yes, lets go with that”.
I thought Vice.com went under.
What a genius getaway vehicle.
CJ agrees.
