EDIT: On second read, Wired's statement is technically true; that's the justification the police gave for arresting her. But as written, it implies that Star intended such a hoax.
Interview here: http://boingboing.net/2008/09/22/star-simpson-one-yea.html
And even so, reporting the claims of the police without qualification is something even a rookie reporter isn't supposed to do. The fact that the judge gave her a path to dismiss the charges, after sentencing her to a trivial amount of community service, is also pretty relevant. If you mention one fact the other ought to follow.
When you read this headline it should sound like a tautology.
I think this is a joke--if it's not, the founders are jokes because they have no idea what they are talking about and clearly no idea where this technology actually stands. Spend some time on rcgroups.com, fpvlab.com and the other multirotor forums and you'll realize just how serious those people are how quickly "Tacocopter" would get laughed out of the room.