China farmer uses drone to transport pigs, causing power outage when cables get ensnared

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...


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