Can turrets generate audience votes for Verney?
Verney:
"That’s Entertainment: Whenever a dropped weapon template that was placed by this team is removed from play, this team gains 1 Audience Vote."
Sentry Gun:
"Although controlled by the player that dropped it, the Sentry Gun does not count as part of the player’s team, and so cannot be used for the purposes of scenario rules, Audience Votes, or perks."
It seems pretty obvious to me that the intention is that the Sentry Gun can't trigger audience votes by attacking, but it's still a dropped weapon, and that's all Verney cares about. But the rules say what the rules say.
Does anyone have any insights or takes?
...ok if we're being honest, this isn't actually about what happens on the odd turn where an opponent crashes into your sentry, it's about a bus loaded with zero build slot drop-ables that can use trunk of junk to drop them all on anyone unlucky enough to be in short range, generating lots of audience votes. So like, it would be fair to say I can't do that, but now I'm just mostly curious.