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Mistletoe Drone from TGIFriday’s Crashes into Photographer

Chris Gampat
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12/09/2014
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Last Updated on 05/25/2023 by StateofDigitalPublishing

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For some odd reason, TGIFriday’s thinks that it’s a great idea to fly a drone around their restaurants and have mistletoe attached to it. Or at least, they thought it was a great idea until it literally chopped off the tip of a photographer’s nose.

According to Vice, photographer Georgine Benvenuto was working for the Brooklyn Daily down in Sheepshead Bay at the restaurant location to document the new happening. When the drone made its way to their table, someone flinched and the drone made a crash landing into Ms. Benvenuto’s face.

Brooklyn Daily’s article states

“‘It literally chipped off a tip of my nose,” said Benvenuto, using tissues to stanch the blood. “It took off part of my nose and cut me here, right under my chin.'”

Mrs. Benvenuto stated that she was happy that it didn’t go anywhere near her eye since that is part of her livelihood. The incident has the food chain standing behind their operator and saying that it was an isolated incident. It surely is, but the idea of flying a drone around with mistletoe isn’t exactly the most PC idea either. If the drone clipped her eye, there would be a major lawsuit.

Video of the TGIFriday’s mistletoe drone is after the jump.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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