The Proper Use of Drones

I'M SURE I WASN'T DREAMING. I wish I had been, but I wasn't. It must have been on National Public Radio that I heard about some eight year old american kid walking to school with a drone hovering over his or her head all the way there, and presumably, all the way back later in the day, for protection purpses. I swear I heard that. Dud was either thinking about droning his kid, was about to do it, or was already doing it. Helicopeter parent to the max. To do more the parent would have to actually accompany the child to school. Is this where we're headed? Shockingly, the answer appears to be "yes". You can already see it; all upper middle class American kids, with a drone hoverning just above the head, all day long, day in, day out. Or perhaps they could be turned off and stored in the cloak closet during school. If some bully kid walked up to your drone covered child on the sidewalk and gave him a shove just for spite, what would the drone do? Laser the aggressor in half? A quick tazer-like shock? Such is the stuff of which future tort lawsuits shall be made. Soon our skies will be filled with drones delivering pizza, photographing crime scenes, hoveringly observing public places keeping watch over them, and serving as companions to people out for a stroll. All things considered, its probably a better way to use drones than sending them into Pakistan to kill Taliban members and, all too often, their friends and families.