An Amazon Delivery Drone carrying $3.16 worth of soap crashed through a 650-year-old Church’s stained glass window.
“The delivery didn’t go quite as planned,” said Amazon spokesman Carly Hickenbottom. “We will make sure the soap is delivered through traditional methods.”
The Church in Northern France is home to a small community in a farmland area. Only 4 miles away is an Amazon shipping warehouse where test drone delivery flight have been seen making deliveries to the surrounding areas in France and Belgium. With zero accidents to date, the soap delivery is the first one.
The Church’s Priest estimates the damages are priceless, but Amazon will foot the bill to repair the windows, they just won’t be 650-year-old stained glass. “The windows survived tens of wars including World War One and the Second World War.
“Now, cause some guy was too lazy to go to the store and buy some soap, a piece of history is lost. We successfully defended the Church from the Nazis, but we weren’t a match for e-commerce.”
The new windows will be installed for the Christmas nativity scene ceremony on December 20th. No drones will be allowed to fly within 300 yards of the Church as was agreed upon by Amazon to avoid further charges by the state.
Locals are concerned about other safety of the drones. “What if that was a person?” asked Jacque Pierot. “You are just walking and boom, smashed by a drone with sharp propellers. Maybe even soap in your eyes.”
Regulators continue to look into the drone delivery method, and the European Union will make its recommendation at the end of the year when they convene in Brussels.
Amazon would have made $0.01 on the transaction but will now pay $50,000 to repair the window and refund the cost of the man’s soap.