Treyarch Co-Founder 'Deeply Sorry' His Drone Collided with LA Firefighting Plane | Push Square
Peter T. Akemann, co-founder of Call of Duty developer Treyarch, has pleaded guilty to piloting the drone that collided with a Canadian Super Scooper firefighting aeroplane during last month's devastating and, in some places, ongoing Los Angeles wildfires.
The reckless act, which grounded the valuable aircraft for repairs at the height of the crisis, resulted in a serious-sounding FBI investigation of Akemann (thanks, Game Developer). Currently CEO of The Entertainment Workshop (and previously running Skydance Interactive), the dev avoids a probable year in prison. Still, he will be required to pay over $65,000 for repairs and will be made to do 150 hours of likely hard labour in court-mandated community service, aiding with Southern California wildfire relief efforts. Akemann's lawyers issued a statement that professed how «deeply sorry» the working CEO was for the act.
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Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With six years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
Good that he's being forced to pay for repairs and engage in community service — that kind of wildly irresponsible behavior is unacceptable in a crisis.
What an idiot. Those fires were devastating and he actually impeded rescue efforts to put out them out with his big boy toy. Guessing with that low of a fine that he didn’t cause it to crash? Some people in the world just don’t have the capacity to handle being rich without being an *****.
65k, they charge these rich people so little
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