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Not in my backyard! Woman throws stones before using a GUN to get rid of nosy neighbour's drone
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 5, 2017 | Alice Evans

Posted on 03/06/2017 3:30:16 AM PST by C19fan

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To: C19fan
Go for bigger..


21 posted on 03/06/2017 4:36:58 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: Farmer Dean

“Kick his ass until it’s up around his eye brows”

This is the right answer. The technology isn’t necessarily the problem. The reflex is to create a technology solution to a perceived technology problem. Wrong.

This guy would be unlikely to be a peeping perv again if some male in this woman’s life would do what needs to be done.

Same as in the workplace. Managers always look for a technology way to “block” employees that misuse their computers by surfing the net during work hours. The right answer is to fire them.

That this woman is on camera in a newspaper for having an appropriate reaction of concern and the perpetrator is unidentified calls for extra special treatment of the drone pervert once he becomes known.

Problem solved.


22 posted on 03/06/2017 4:40:58 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: Fresh Wind

“Electronic jamming is the way to go, though blasting the sucker is more satisfying.”

Nope. The person is the problem. The person needs re-education. A male in this womans life needs to explain in no uncertain terms the consequences of ungentlemanly behavior to the drone operator.


23 posted on 03/06/2017 4:44:49 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: WinMod70

line of sight is not necessary.

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24 posted on 03/06/2017 4:47:42 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: RFEngineer

And if she doesn’t know who the drone operator is?

I’d bet it’s some neighbor’s basement-dwelling kid. She, or “her male”, had better tread lightly. The parent(s) would not take kindly to someone “re-educating” their precious snowflake.

She might want to get her own drone to follow the annoying drone back to its base, or to dogfight it into non-existence.


25 posted on 03/06/2017 4:59:06 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Fresh Wind
And if she doesn’t know who the drone operator is?

Then I guess something like a hunting blind would work. All you need do is avoid being captured on video aiming a gun at the thing - then, why, that shot could've come from anywhere.

26 posted on 03/06/2017 5:04:36 AM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Stevenc131
Yeah...I was thinking my Granddad's Model 12 16 gauge pump with bird
shot...best dove gun I ever used...used to get my bag limit in one box of
shells.
27 posted on 03/06/2017 5:05:27 AM PST by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: C19fan

Aren’t drones required to be registered with the FAA now?

Think the perp is legal?


28 posted on 03/06/2017 5:05:31 AM PST by moovova
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To: C19fan
The Drone Wars....


29 posted on 03/06/2017 5:06:30 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Doogle

Drones can be fun toys, but the same rules of etiquette apply for new technology as for the rest of life. When you use your drone to be rude, karma might give you the bird.


30 posted on 03/06/2017 5:12:36 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: WinMod70; All

Many have “first person view” headsets that allow you to fly as if your in the vehicle. A buddy of mine flys and races these. Racing drones can go 100 mph and can turn on a dime. You’ll have to have some mad wing shooting skills to bag one if the operator knows he’s flying in a hostile environment.


31 posted on 03/06/2017 5:46:51 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: major_gaff

A hovering drone is no match for a 12 gauge pump. 98.7/100 ave. trap shooter until I was 25.

Dove at 50mph or a covey of quail exploding all around you was good practice.

And an ass kicking for the perv that trys to come and get it back.


32 posted on 03/06/2017 5:52:34 AM PST by Delta 21 (The minority demands NOTHING !)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Me either.


33 posted on 03/06/2017 6:17:15 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Vaquero

7 1/2s or 8 shot will do just fine.


34 posted on 03/06/2017 6:18:34 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: a fool in paradise

Most towns and city ordinances ban the discharge of ALL projectile devices and often list bows and arrows,BB and pellet guns, and slingshots right along with firearms.


35 posted on 03/06/2017 6:22:09 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: C19fan
Is there a quad 50 I could install to scare away drones?

Overkill.

I blew one away on my 80 acre property here a while back with a .410 Snake Charmer, using Mexican bird shot, at about 40 feet.

Fell out of the sky just as pretty as you please.

No one has claimed it yet...I've got it hanging inside my gate, with a note for whoever might claim it.

Nobody showed up, yet.

No more drones flying over, either.

36 posted on 03/06/2017 6:25:17 AM PST by OldSmaj (The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
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To: C19fan

I wouldn’t use a gun. I might use some of that 30-foot wasp spray stuff, or maybe my power washer.

I figure any thing that is close enough to my house that I can hit it with a spray gun is fair game.

Might be fun to try to shoot drones with the paintball gun as well.


37 posted on 03/06/2017 6:33:04 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Pollster1

We see one in our yard it gets knocked down.


38 posted on 03/06/2017 6:50:53 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: WKUHilltopper

At 20-30 yards maybe. At 40-50 #4s.


39 posted on 03/06/2017 7:10:05 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: a fool in paradise
...could she legally use a slingshot?

Unclear in New Jersey. What is a lawful purpose?

2C:39-3. Prohibited Weapons and Devices. e.Certain weapons. Any person who knowingly has in his possession any gravity knife, switchblade knife, dagger, dirk, stiletto, billy, blackjack, metal knuckle, sandclub, slingshot, cestus or similar leather band studded with metal filings or razor blades imbedded in wood, ballistic knife, without any explainable lawful purpose, is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.

40 posted on 03/06/2017 7:37:37 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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