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‘Flying aliens’ harassing village in Peru are actually illegal miners with jetpacks, cops say (www.vice.com)

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‘Flying aliens’ harassing village in Peru are actually illegal miners with jetpacks, cops say::Authorities announced their theory after visiting the isolated Indigenous community where the attacks took place.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 71 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I never thought I'd say that I think aliens are more plausible than illegal miners with jetpacks, but uh... I actually think aliens might be more plausible than miners with jetpacks. I mean, there have to be more reasonable explanations than aliens or jetpacks, right?

"Miners with jetpacks" feels like something someone would say if they don't give a shit but are being forced into making a report. I just can't see a bunch of people who're mining gold illegally as being capable of rigging together jetpacks, nor can I see them having the money to buy one. Surely if they had the money to buy one then they could have bribed the right officials to make their illegal operations legal; and if they had the skills to make one themselves then I don't think they'd need to be illegally mining for gold.

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Read the article right to the end. And think about why illegal miners might want to drive the locals away. And what illegal mining is. The people funding it are not poor and they do have a great deal to gain by not having witnesses around to report on their activities, or to stop them mining their land.

[–] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 32 points 1 year ago

That's some Scooby-Doo level shit

[–] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Sounds like something an alien would say to throw us off.

Nice try, Little Green Lemming. We're on to you.

[–] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 5 points 1 year ago

Where do I sign up for who're mining?

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

More plausible than miners with jetpacks, but less plausible than over-imaginative people in a self-fueled rumor frenzy.