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I thought about it, even though my archery skills are near nil
That said, the only way it'd work is if the arrow had a mechanism to grab the flag.
The other way I would do it is if it was a trespass with people with military training who can watch my back while I lower the flag and replace it with the proper Confederate flag.
What about a shotgun with a dragons breath shell? Would probably catch the thing on fire.
Drone + lighter fluid + spark
You can get some fairly high powered lasers commercially, might have some OK results burning flags with one of those? Would have to be a pretty non-windy day though. Do take care though not to be shining it in a way that it could pass through the flag and hit, for example, the eyes of a pilot in a far off plane. As @[email protected] says, a laser should be treated with respect the same as any other weapon, makeshift or not.
While this could work, please don't go firing a laser powerful enough to set shit on fire randomly into the air. It's like firing a gun, that laser will fuck up whatever it hits and you don't know what's behind that flag. Easy way to kill a plane full of people by instantly and permanently blinding both pilots. I would look into artillery calculations and water balloons filled with bleach. Pretty easy to hit a stationary target with a pi handling trajectory calculations. Paintballs might be another option, bright pink.
Absolutely. I'll edit my original comment to mention the dangers.