Fred Durst, the 55-year-old Limp Bizkit frontman, struck a consumer drone with his microphone during a recent Istanbul concert after it flew too close to the stage. The drone was hit during a "low-key breakdown" in the middle of the band's 2000 hit " Take A Look Around," prompting applause and cheers from the crowd. Durst then instructed security to "throw [the drone] out into the crowd," paced as if cooling down, returned, and asked the audience if they were "ready to get down." Consumer drones are increasingly common at concerts and sporting events, and reactions to them vary widely.
The drone got owned, as Stereogum notes, during a "low-key breakdown" in the middle of the band's 2000 hit " Take A Look Around." As soon as the diminutive machine caught Durst's eye, he began motioning with one finger for it to fly closer, like some kind of rap-metal anglerfish - and once it was within arm's reach, he knocked it out of the air with one clean hit from his microphone, drawing applause and cheers from his fans.
As a longer video of the spectacle shows, Durst told a security guard to "throw [the drone] out into the crowd" before pacing around as if cooling down from a fight and then going to the back of the stage to speak to someone. Though the fight-seeking frontman looked mighty fed up throughout the drone dust-up, he seemed to even out when he returned, and asked the crowd if they were "ready to get down."
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