A LOCAL BOY who had lost his special Christmas Day drone was finally reunited with the specialist piece of tech this week, two days after it had gone missing.
Ghillie Campbell (10), was ecstatic on Christmas morning when he opened his presents and found that he had been given a drone from his Grandmother.
But less than two days into owning the UAV, (unmanned ariel vehicle), disaster struck and Ghillie lost his special Christmas gift.
Last Saturday afternoon he decided to take the drone, which is fitted with a 4K camera and is capable of 90 minutes of flight time, with him as he went to play football with his friends at the five-a-side pitches near to Dunoon Stadium.
His intention was to film his pals and their footy skills from above, but when he launched his drone it kept climbing and he quickly lost control and sight of it.
Fortunately he did have the ability to replay the last piece of footage the drone took before it vanished and a final screenshot made it possible to roughly pinpoint it’s last known location, which was around Queen Street in Dunoon.
He and his friends took off on their bikes to find the missing drone but as daylight faded their search proved fruitless and their theories as to what had happened to the UAV began to grow arms and legs. Ghillie’s friend Bruce suggested that the drone may have landed inside someone’s bin as they were filling it with Christmas rubbish and it could end up at the dump, another suggested it could’ve landed on a van roof and could be on its way to Glasgow.
Ignoring wild conspiracy theories as to the drone’s whereabouts Ghillie’s mum Amy posted its final screenshot to local Facebook groups and appealed to anyone in the local area to ‘keep an eye out’ for it, but hope for the Christmas gift was fading.
Then miraculously on Monday morning Mary Price, a worker for the Key Housing Association, found the UAV lying on a patch of grass near to the car park of their housing facility on Queen Street.
Mary initially thought she had discovered a dead bird but on closer inspection realised it was a dark coloured drone and it wasn’t long before she had contacted Amy to inform her that Ghillie’s missing UAV had been found.
Later that afternoon Ghillie’s dad Lorne drove his son to the Key Housing Association’s office on John Street where Ghillie met with and thanked Mary before he was reunited with his missing Christmas gift which he promptly fitted with an Apple Air Tag to ensure it never goes missing again.
Mary joked that the reason the drone went unnoticed for two days in such an obvious place was down to the fact that only men and boys had been out looking for it. Controversial patter which could lead to Mary finding herself on Santa’s naughty list for next year.
