Man shoots down drone hovering over house

[rawen2]

Just because something is legal (for now anyway) doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
Try flying one 10' over the back yard of the White House and see what happens.

 

[Camarobear]

Lets make it so you have to have a background check to operate a drone.

Who knows you could use it to record child porn, stalk your ex, or surviel your despised neighbor and record his wife cheating....

Imagine all the criminals and these actions!

Save the kittens! Vote to background checks (BGCs) on ALL drones! New and used! Close down resales of used drones unless BGCs are done!

Terrorists can fly a drone into a plane engine! Only a terrorist would carry a drone. So instant death penalty to any man wearing a dress and having a drone...

SF bay area might say something, PETA is at a marriage between a man and a LLama so they wont.

Oh and hunters can harass animals. So gotta put those people in prison...

On another note... GOOD JOB TO THE HERO THAT SHOT DOWN A DRONE!!!!!

I would let that guy marry my sister!

 

[bakersman345]

This guy only took old Joe bidens advice - fire a shotgun into the air

This guys stupid dont shoot a gun in the air there are 100 ways to smack something 10 feet off the ground, id just stand on my tip toes and grab it but I'm tall. A broom also comes to mind

 

[Provincial]

You want to register quadcopters? I don't. There's got to be a better way.

Quadcopter operators have been increasingly irresponsible lately, including interfering with wildfire fighting operations. Do you have a better way to make them responsible? I don't.

Remember, everyone who acts responsibly in injured when one person acts irresponsibly.

 

[The B]

Ben, your lack of reading comprehension is showing.
I didn't say it was against the law to fly a drone low over a backyard, I said it should be illegal. "Case law" is often in the wrong, and needs to be corrected by real laws.

The powers that be have an interest in reducing our legal expectation to privacy, for instance police spying. Your backyard isn't a public space except in the eye of the law. My proposals provide a means of regulating airspace below the normal altitude regulated by the FAA for manned flight. The FAA rules are unenforcable partially because there is no way to identify the drone and track it to the offender.

Criminals will still fly unregistered drones, but unregistered drones would be exempt from recovering damages if damaged or destroyed while in use. "If drones are registered, criminals will still have drones." But "Drone Self-Defense" would be an Affermative Defense for the homeowner!

No.. you've got that concept backwards. Case-law is very "real" law. It's where the court looks at the application of a law and determines it's constitutionality and makes real, actual changes to the law to fix legislative errors. Case law is the law of the land. SCOTUS is the highest court in the land, and the convention of "stare decisis" precludes any "correction." They've determined there's no RIGHT to privacy under open skies - but that doesn't prevent a state or local government from enacting a law of it's own. It'll probably be challenged in the courts again, but you could certainly give it a go.

As to the question of should you have an expectation of privacy on your property: I don't care, myself. So it's hard for me to see the need for more difficult to implement and enforce laws to protect paranoid types from having photos taken of their property. It all feels like a fear of the new and misunderstood, to me... which is, unfortunately, a common problem among conservative types (most members of gun boards).

You're going to have less and less of your notion of "privacy" going forward. Not because da gubermint wants to get you, but because that's where technology is taking us. I'm not sure how I feel about various forms of intrusions... I sorta care, I sorta don't, but I definitely don't really care if people snap some pictures of my yard from a drone. Pretty damn minor intrusion, in the face of the NSA recording my phone conversations - and I don't see anyone shooting any NSA agents.

I guess if a drone came buzzing, I'd go investigate... find the operator, offer him a glass of lemonade and inquire his purpose. If he said "to film your daughter, 'cause I'm a pervert," I'd probably put some jabs to his nose and jaw, and break his toy. What's a guy to do? I'm sure as bubblegum not going to discharge a bubbleguming firearm in my neighborhood to prevent my posies being video'd, in the OFF CHANCE it's someone using a sophisticated $2,000 piece of equipment to do what he could do for free on the internet from the safety of his home.

 

[RVTECH]

If you're OK with exposing yourself to liability.

I'd probably put some jabs to his nose and jaw, and break his toy.

I take it then you are OK with exposing yourself to liability because this action would - and probably more so than just downing the drone.

 

[RVTECH]

Not because da gubermint wants to get you, but because that's where technology is taking us.

Then there is a simple answer to this - make a law that applies to anyone who operates a drone, RC airplane etc ANYTHING remotely operated assumes ALL liability for it use, misuse, damages to property and injury AND conversely CAN NOT hold ANYONE liable for it's inadvertent destruction by any means accidental or intentional. In simple terms - you fly it, you buy it.

 

[Caveman Jim]

I have a super soaker by the back door so I can spray the neighbors friggin cat when it comes over for a poop!!!!
Should work on a low flying pervert copter right?

 

[The B]

I take it then you are OK with exposing yourself to liability because this action would - and probably more so than just downing the drone.

There's a really big distinction that a lot of gentlemen in this thread are apparently missing:

1 - 100% odds the guy is a pervert misusing his drone
2 - ?% odds the guy is a pervert misusing his drone.... 1%? .1%? Given all the legit/non-perv reasons to fly a drone around a neighborhood, the assumption that it's being used for nefarious ends is ridiculous to me.

#1 brings low odds of liability. Perverts caught in their perversion generally don't call the cops themselves. #2 - almost GUARANTEED liability, when the operator hears a gunshot and their viewscreen goes blank in the middle of checking for starlings under their client's eave. Yea, he's calling the cops (as are 15 other neighbors) and he's suing.

 

[Just Jim]

Ya, the progressives can't get enough of spying on the people. Next step is they arm the drones.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

In this case it would work.They were ''MEN'' that were perverts into looking at teen girls. But if you were in a liberal fruitcake city like San Francisco in Californicate, where ''men?'' are perverts, it would not work. You would not only have just 1 spy Drone flying around, but a FLEET of Pink Drones flying around !

Just did a double check in the BIG mirror! Yep.......pretty darned sure I can make anyone, of any persuasion, crash that infernal thing and go after his own eyes with sharp sticks! He77, I want to blind my self!

 

[Sgt Nambu]

I have a super soaker by the back door so I can spray the neighbors friggin cat when it comes over for a poop!!!!
Should work on a low flying pervert copter right?

I'm mighty sorry, Jim! I'm suing you on behalf of your neighbors friggin cat! Kitty's are free spirits and should be able to poop anywhere they desire!

I'm sending my drone!!!

 

[jbett98]

I wonder if a pressurized air tube gun could shoot those small cocktail ice cubes as projectiles.
After shooting up into the air and then falling to the ground, they would melt.

 

[Just Jim]

If it gets to be too common to see drones I suspect people will use technology to crash them.

 

[Caveman Jim]

I'm mighty sorry, Jim! I'm suing you on behalf of your neighbors friggin cat! Kitty's are free spirits and should be able to poop anywhere they desire!

I'm sending my drone!!!

Your drone will get soaked.....

 

[Caveman Jim]

If it gets to be too common to see drones I suspect people will use technology to crash them.

Where can I get one of them drone jamming devices?

 

[Just Jim]

Somebody will come out with one. How many have we lost to the Iranians now?

 

[jbett98]

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[edslhead]

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