DETROIT, MI -- Despite the curse-laden exchange between the two men after punk rock bassist Spencer Pollard heaved projectiles downing Harry Arnold's video drone Saturday, the veteran photographer says he holds no grudge.

Arnold, a 52-year-old from Detroit who founded Detroit Drone to offer video services about three years ago and was hired to film by event producers, chalks it up to a "rebel moment," not unlike "Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat."

It was approaching 9 p.m. Saturday at the Zumiez Best Foot Forward indoor skateboarding event at the former Michigan Theatre when Arnold said he was capturing drone video footage of Pollard's band, Los Angeles-based Trash Talk.

The mosh pit was overflowing with punk rock energy, fans circling, bouncing off one another and flailing their arms aggressively.

Arnold said, while looking through the camera monitor, he saw ice cubes fly by.

"I'm thinking, wow, the crowd is going nuts," said Arnold, who soon realized Pollard heaved the drink. Before "it clicked" what was going on, Arnold said a second attempt, this time the anti-aircraft ammo of choice a full can of beer, or possibly an energy drink, made a direct hit causing the drone to spiral about 20 feet to the ground.

It crashed off the front of the stage into a secure area behind the crowd barrier.

"I'm just glad no one got hurt," said Arnold Tuesday. "It's very dangerous to down a drone over a crowd, and it landed in about the only safe area it could have."

The footage is available on YouTube. It's been viewed 28,000-plus times since Arnold posted it Monday.

Arnold, offering MLive Detroit the "PC version," explained what happened next.

In the video, you can here a collective, "Oh!" from the crowd as the 4.5-pound drone crunches to the ground.

"I expressed my bewilderment at why he would do that -- I didn't use that line, but that's the gist of what happened -- and he was like, 'Screw you,' and I was like, 'Screw you,' and that was that," said Arnold. "There was mature language used."

The band continued with its set and after Arnold says he decided he had adequate footage and left the event. Arnold said he'd spent the entire day at the competition, had flown the drone by the band prior to the can attack and believes they knew he was a hired photographer. He doesn't think it was a specific attack on the drone, but rather random destruction.

"He endangered people," said Arnold. "I look at him as a young man -- just as I tell my son, 'You can't do things as fast as you think of them.' There are too many people in prison or dead just because things popped in their head to do."

He estimates there was about $700 in damages due to a broken Go Pro camera and special mount.

"Everything is cool with me," Arnold said Tuesday. "The promoter has promised to take care of my losses and I'm happy leaving it at that -- and I wish the band all the luck and no hard feelings."

However, Arnold says "not to trivialize" what happened.

"People had kids in the concert, and when it came down, if it had come down on a kid in a stroller, it could have dome some serious damage," he said.

Neither the band nor Pollard have apologized to Arnold directly or via social media.

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