[Enlightened1]

He shot the $1,800 drone down from out of the sky and it crashed in his backyard in Hillview, Kentucky

Unhappy dad: William H. Merideth, pictured with his shotgun, took action after his daughters complained

[Tired of Taxes]

The owner of the drone claims he was only trying to take pictures of a friend's house

Right... It all sounds perfectly innocent.

[Windcatcher]

Whoever comes up with an inexpensive way for homeowners to EMP the drones will make a fortune.

[Corky Ramirez]

This article inspires me to run out and buy a little cheap, sub $100 drone just to use as a suicide drone. Let one hover over my pool and I fly/crash my cheap one into the aerial trespasser.

[Arm_Bears]

It was hovering over top of my property . . .

Sounds like trespassing to me.

[elpadre]

can he charge the drone operator with trespassing??

[discostu]

The correct answer to peeping toms is not vandalism.

[cva66snipe]

It should boil down to user responsibility on the part of the one flying the drone. Putting one up in the air at a reasonable altitude as not to make it a hazard or nuisance and flying it as in constantly moving in a forward direction not hovering would seem OK unless it was harassment like low level back and forth.

IF the drone owner wanted to take pictures of a friends house but use air space over others property to hover in he should have approached the effected landowners first for permission and explained why. So why didn't he?

I was visiting a cemetery one weekend about 50 acres of land and a drone operator was flying a drone around hovering it in close to the head stones almost at ground level maybe 10 ft up. When anyone approached the area his drone he was flying it in he sent the drone over to the other side away from them.

A few days later I figured it out what was going on. He was a volunteer taking pictures of headstones to put in a website to help families and friends locate loved ones graves in cemeteries or so family can view the stone on line. The reason I knew was because we had left some flowers there and they were in the picture when I looked online a few days later but we were not in the picture. No harm done and it was a public area on state land and the V.A. cemetery administrators permission.

Hovering drones over a persons house without permission isn't wise. It's asking for conflict. It's invading their privacy and private property. At that point the craft is not being used to get from point A to point B nor fly in a traditional hobby craft pattern used for decades. Notice I said "hovering" not flying over and going on. Hobby radio controlled aircraft has been around for decades at least 50 years. But the onboard cameras being used now rightfully have some persons concerned. I don't have to worry about them. Trees would eat them LOL.

[noinfringers2]

I realize a load of buckshot is good for shooting flying objects being a long time waterfowl hunter. However, I also know that discharging such in urban areas doesn’t go very well. I think I would have tried using my pellet rifle. Much more fun but still wrought with lawful restrictions.

[Tau Food]

I’ll summarize the week: “Kill drones, not lions.”

[Responsibility2nd]

Happy conclusion.....

 

Kentucky Man Had Right to Shoot Down Drone, Judge Rules
webpronews ^ | October 28, 2015

Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2015 8:53:40 AM by Gamecock