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Man shoots down drone hovering over house
CNet ^ | July 30, 2015 | Chris Matyszczyk

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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KEYWORDS: banglist; drone; homeowner; shotgun
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To: LeoWindhorse

Next time, high powered pellet gun.

Gun? what gun?


21 posted on 07/31/2015 5:07:41 AM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is the CPUSA)
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To: Texas resident

My .177 air rifle is louder than my .22 rifle. Point the .22 straight up with nothing to echo off & it goes “Psst!”

A compound bow firing an arrow with strings fastened to it might well be undetectable. Tangle the drone & bring it down.


22 posted on 07/31/2015 5:26:54 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: elcid1970

I shot a deer just day before yesterday with my .177 air rifle. From 30 feet it was impossible to miss. The deer ran away. I hope it stays away from wifey’s green beans. She goes into a terrible rant denouncing the deer eating her pride and joy green beans


23 posted on 07/31/2015 5:31:26 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: elcid1970
A compound bow firing an arrow with strings fastened to it might well be undetectable. Tangle the drone & bring it down.

Saw a video once of a guy using a 12 ga. to shoot a length of broomstick dragging a line across a river. The line was then used to pull a rope across. IIRC, they simply cut a shell open and dumped the shot out then loaded it and seated the broomstick into the cup.

24 posted on 07/31/2015 5:36:17 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: elcid1970

.22 shorts are subsonic. They won’t set off the shot spotters that triangulate where the shots are fired from.


25 posted on 07/31/2015 5:38:19 AM PDT by printhead (Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
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To: bert

string some fishing line about 3 ft off the ground around the beans.

The deer don’t like feeling this... something... that they can’t see.


26 posted on 07/31/2015 5:40:58 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: chrisser

So you capture one with a net, probably damage the rotor system, and keep it.

A good shyster can turn the tables and have you charged with all sorts of goodies, like theft, property damage, public endangerment (the little chopper could have veered off and hit someone) and whatever else the jerk can come up with.

A good leftist judge would take on the case.

The MSM would make that poor cute little chopper to be Cecil The Chopper.

obama would weigh in and take personal revenge against you.

The fully brainwashed low info jury members would convict you.

You lose everything.

You’re better off letting some pervert check out your daughters, as in a good lefty society, perversion is the new norm.


27 posted on 07/31/2015 5:49:10 AM PDT by redfreedom (All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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To: grania

Google Earth started out as Keyhole, Inc., a CIA project. Info on Wikipedia.


28 posted on 07/31/2015 5:50:14 AM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: printhead

Do they detect 38s and 45 ACP and other subsonic pistol rounds?


29 posted on 07/31/2015 5:52:38 AM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: chrisser
Depends. What this guy did wasn't dangerous in the least. If he used steel heavy shot, "maybe" it could have been slightly dangerous. Light shot has no energy beyond 150ft or so. Worst case is neighbors got sprinkled with tiny shot going so slow it is insignificant. I would have done exactly the same thing if it were my daughters... and the SOB better pray to his God that I never find out who the owner of the thing was.

This is a lesson that I have drilled my sons with. Respecting women and above all, their unforgiving fathers. Legality is low on the list of a man's considerations when it comes to his daughter.

30 posted on 07/31/2015 5:53:21 AM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: LeoWindhorse

It is not safe to fire a pistol or rifle upwards into the air in the city. A shotgun loaded with birdshot presents no particular problem. A falling pellet is not going to make a hole in someone’s head. A good weapon for eliminating inappropriate quadrotors would be a little 45 Colt handgun loaded with .410. I used to have a little side-by-side snake-eyes version of that. It was very good for little copperheads that one might inadvertantly get too close to.


31 posted on 07/31/2015 5:54:58 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: tacticalogic

basically what is done to get line across between ships when doing underway replenishments. Canister with line, instead of the broomstick with line, is sent over with a shotgun.


32 posted on 07/31/2015 5:59:47 AM PDT by reed13k (w)
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To: mumblypeg

Wow....thank you for that information.


33 posted on 07/31/2015 6:00:19 AM PDT by grania
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To: reed13k
basically what is done to get line across between ships when doing underway replenishments. Canister with line, instead of the broomstick with line, is sent over with a shotgun.

Makes sense. Line unspools from inside the canister?

34 posted on 07/31/2015 6:07:12 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: LeoWindhorse; All
Should have used a LASER to fry the drone's sensors..... Just sayin..
35 posted on 07/31/2015 6:09:49 AM PDT by Voice of Reason1 (Absolute power corrupts absolutely Lord Acton 1887)
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To: chrisser

Bird shot is perfect for shooting int the air in urban environment. It comes down with no force to hurt.


36 posted on 07/31/2015 6:11:18 AM PDT by wgmalabama
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Before long there may be a laser or some other device that can safely disable drones with little trouble.

Awww.. beat me to it.. :-)

37 posted on 07/31/2015 6:11:51 AM PDT by Voice of Reason1 (Absolute power corrupts absolutely Lord Acton 1887)
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To: LeoWindhorse
Try one of these:


38 posted on 07/31/2015 6:52:53 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: wgmalabama
Bird shot is perfect for shooting int the air in urban environment. It comes down with no force to hurt.

Even if it is shot relatively straight up?

It's been awhile, but my recollection of physics is that the individual shot pellets will have about the same force coming down at ground level as they had when they left the barrel, negating wind resistance. Granted, you'll likely only get hit with one instead of all of them, but if you happen to be looking up, that one has a good chance of blinding you, I'd think.
39 posted on 07/31/2015 6:53:23 AM PDT by chrisser (This space for rent.)
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To: samtheman
Ramming Speed!

Ha. I figured your link would take me to a clip of the Deathmobile

40 posted on 07/31/2015 7:03:34 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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