Could a helicopter with a search light follow them?
“Could a helicopter with a search light follow them?”
The “drone pilots” sound sophisticated. These things are flying in formation and changing directions, etc. But keeping a spotlight on one from a safe distance in a copter...could be difficult, those things can change direction and speed very quickly.
I think the local good old boys need to set up the potato cannons and other jackleg weaponry and try to shoot one down.
The drones aren’t actually doing anything illegal, as far as we know, so the police don’t have a role.
On the ground, some cities have (or used to have) anti-cruising regulations to prevent people (or teenagers, at least) from driving up and down the street repeatedly. Perhaps the county can pass an anti-cruising law for drones.
Unless of course the county doesn’t have jurisdiction over its airspace. If the county doesn’t have jurisdiction and the FAA doesn’t regulate drone traffic, then it’s the Wild West once again in Colorado.