Posted on 02/13/2016 9:51:13 AM PST by Enlightened1
Edited on 02/13/2016 9:54:26 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
That thing would be the ultimate duck hunting vehicle.....
Drive it to your destination, launch it across the mud or water flats then back it up into the bull rushes and wait for the ducks.....
Funny, I thought the entire premise of a fence was to enable privacy in your own back yard.
That’s what I thought. On New Years we went out in our back yard to watch the fireworks they do here (Phx, it wasn’t cold).
So over our house was a drone, supposedly filming fireworks but I really had to wonder. Seemed to be pointed at us. We were drinking champagne and in our pj’s but it WAS our backyard! I wanted to shoot it down.
None of the airspace over your house is “yours”.
It*s interesting that the specific wording of the proverb, *Good fences make good neighbors* is fairly modern. It comes from Robert Frost*s poem Mending Wall from 1914. The poem centers around this concept and questions whether it*s true or not. Here*s the poem ...
The proverb “Good fences make good neighbors” has been around for a couple of centuries in different forms. One place it can be found is in Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin. His version is: “Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull down your hedge.”
It’s interesting that the specific wording of the proverb, “Good fences make good neighbors” is fairly modern. It comes from Robert Frost’s poem Mending Wall from 1914. The poem centers around this concept and questions whether it’s true or not. Here’s the poem…
Mending Wall
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors”.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
“Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.” I could say “Elves” to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there,
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
Hah. . .and imagine some little 8-yr old girl reaching up and grabbing those rotating razor-blades (propellers) when it drops in for a delivery.
Ouch!
Really, it’s not the RC vehicle that’s the real issue, it’s the miniaturization of the information collection and other devices that could be added...
The premise of a fence is to keep things in or out. A neighbor on his roof can look over your fence and you have cannot prevent it. If you want privacy, stay inside and close your blinds.
Perhaps. . .interesting.
Well, we can agree to disagree. With no kids or pets, if I put up a 6 ft “privacy” fence, then it serves one purpose only. Yes, a neighbor could in both theory and practicality find a way to bypass my privacy fence, but the point is that it would be hard for them to claim it was accidental. If you put up a fence, it is a good faith effort to enable privacy on your part, and anyone trying to counter it ... whether by climbing on their roof or sending a drone or taking a picture from a satellite, is at fault for invading my privacy, and I should have the right to take action against them for doing so. In short, once they breach looking over my fence, they are now perverts or spies, and I treat both the same way.
“In short, once they breach looking over my fence, they are now perverts or spies, and I treat both the same way.”
The law is against you. Hope you enjoy the fines, settlements, and jail time.
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