Posted on 07/31/2015 2:31:27 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
Merideth allegedly told the police that a drone was hovering over his house, where his teen daughter (he has two) was sunbathing. So he pulled out his gun and gave it a merry death. Merideth was arrested for wanton endangerment and criminal mischief. There is, apparently, a local ordinance that says you can't shoot a gun off in the city, but the police charged him under a Kentucky Revised Statute.
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No judge allows the defense to suggest such a thing.
People should be allowed to shoot drones flying over their property, of course. We're so far removed from our original freedoms. JMHO
Voyeur.
(Not *you* Windhorse.)
Seems like this sort of thing might be a case for using a laser. Either powerful enough to ruin the video, or the drone’s optics, or propulsion controls.
This is why you need a guard drone. Sort of like a guard dog but operating in three dimensions.
I can see some real “positive” uses for drones but invading ones privacy seems to be “over the line”. Would I like to have a drone? yes. Would I use it to spy on my neighbor’s, no.
There needs to be some type of middle ground for using those things.
The drone was controlled by a leering pervert taking video of this man’s daughters in the pool.
There is no DA that is going to move this case forward.
Aaaahh, to be 15 and own a photo drone
Move over, coffee.
This is a job for alcohol! ... and a crossbow.
Good idea. Cheapies that you don't mind using to ram the intruder.
We have entered a golden age for peeping Toms. Now they can remotely look into second story windows, skylights, etc and be anonymous.
Shooting a gun into the air in a populated area doesn’t seem very bright no matter what you’re shooting at.
I bet those PVC potato guns could be modified to shoot some sort of netting that would disable the drone and bring it down without endangering the neighbors. And you get to keep the intact drone and sell it on ebay.
It may have felt like the drone was trespassing but that doesn’t mean it was.
For that matter if could have flown higher, zoomed-in on the girls, and peeped to heart’s content without even flying directly over the property. Being over you is not a good indicator that it’s watching you rather than something over that-a-way.
Google’s photos are (usually) taken from public spaces. Someone standing on a public sidewalk can take photos of your house. I have to do it all the time for work. It certainly annoys people.
What that story didn’t mention that others did was that he used number 8 birdshot (pin head sized pellets), not bullets. He knew shooting bullets into the air was irresponsible and dangerous and would have really gotten him into trouble.
The satellite pictures of my back yard are not taken from what would normally be considered public places. The back yards around here are configured in a way that obscures their view from the street.
Before long there may be a laser or some other device that can safely disable drones with little trouble.
8 shot doesn't have near the range of heavier shot sizes. That drone must have been low.
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