The Amazon Drone — errr, Amazon Prime Air — will be able to deliver a pack of tube socks to your door in 30 minutes. But it might also steal your pocket-size pets or help the NSA take photos of your living room.
The unveiling of Amazon's plans for a flying delivery system of the future on 60 Minutes Sunday night had Twitter's conspiracy theorists and comedians speculating about its impact.
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Parody accounts quickly popped up, with @AmazonDrone gaining more than 5,000 followers overnight. Expect the parodies to continue until at least 2015, when the drone is slated to make its first delivery.
Get your 140-character drone quips in now, people — before Amazon's flying deliverymen take over the planet.
I predict that one day Kanye West is going to get married to an Amazon drone.
Amazon is testing delivery by drone, which would clear the way for all of us to relentlessly bomb al Qaeda hideouts with Garfield calendars.
OWWW. An Amazon drone just hit me in the nuts....
My next record available in bitcoin n delivered in a drone.
#Amazon drone delivery = shotgun season target practice.
I missed an Amazon drone delivery. pic.twitter.com/neJxYANj6p
A little slow today... just waiting on an Amazon drone to deliver my brain...
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Amazon is developing drone delivery service? Yawn. Wake me when Dunkin Donuts can air drop a "regulah" to my doorstep.
Hey @amazon, if I order something expensive can I ask the drone to stop and get me cigarettes on its way over? #faq
Amazon will deliver your orders by drone. Because having your stuff shot down is cooler than being stolen from your porch.
Your Amazon drone/Skynet jokes are totally fresh and no one else is making them.
I for one welcome our new Amazon Drone overlords.
If the Amazon drone deliveries don't make the same sound as the Hunger Games parachute sponsor gifts, I don't want it.
Want to show someone how much you hate them? Send me to their house with a Nickelback CD. #DroneRevenge
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I totally deny the accusations that my Amazon Delivery Drone quit because I kept answering the door with my robe undone!
"Delivering packages by AERO-PLANE?? Surely you jest!" -- Twitter user, 1918
::insert late Amazon delivery drone joke/pun::
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