The new version of skeet shooting? I’m in.
Don’t fly drones over the yards of rednecks....
Actually, the issue of air rights arose a century ago with large heavier-than-air craft. The issue was wrested into Federal control, with the rationale that operators of aircraft should not need to be always asking permission of every landowner. Nobody’s made an accusation of drone retaliation, er, fly in Federal criminal court YET. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t ever.
anything above 300 feet and you’re going to have a hard time hitting it with shot anyway
but if it is close enough to my property and especially close enough to take pictures in my windows, then I will do whatever it takes to prevent invasion of privacy
Now you know.......
She should have told the guys to fly it away from her property since she saw them get out of their car and start playing with it. But then I read this:
“I don’t know if they lost command or if they didn’t have good command, but the wind had picked up. It came over my airspace, 25 or 30 feet above my trees, and hovered for a second. I blasted it to smithereens. “
Yeah. Real brains right there. Did this airhead even give them a chance to do so? Maybe she should have used her mouth instead of getting trigger happy.
Now these guys can make enough cash to buy a bunch of them.
You do not own airspace beyond what a legally built structure occupies. The ignorant ass was speaking about her “airspace”. The FAA does not agree.
Charles Krauthammer predicted three years ago that the first person to do this would become a folk hero.
No, you do not own airspace above your property.
A thread from yesterday on this topic with 60+ comments if anyone cares to read them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3464600/posts
Not many months ago we had one hovering near one of my daughter’s bedroom windows. It appeared to have a camera attached. I looked everywhere and never figured out who it belonged to. I live in the city, so shooting it wasn’t possible. As close as it was to our windows, if I lived outside the city limits, I would have shot it down.
Kind of a set-back for quick delivery of emergency medical supplies to natural disaster areas or donated hearts, kidneys, livers, etc. in transplant emergencies.
Not to mention all the cr@p people buy from Amazon, LOL!
How about a law to keep them at least out of shotgun range. Even that would be pretty invasive, given the photographic/video resolution and distance audio-gathering apparatus tht we now have. I would prefer no drones at all. R/C mdels in select areas excepted.
“The best way to avoid that might be to not shoot down the thing down in the first place.”
Thank you, Popular Mechanics.
Our caged birds thank you too.
She used #7.5 shot. I think I would go for #6 shot. My dad’s old Remington 1100 with the 30” full choke barrel would probably be good medicine for a drone.
I was at the local Food Lion grocery a few days ago, and people were standing in front of the store, staring up at the sky. I looked and didn’t see anything at first. Then, the sheriff’s deputies pulled in and went to the grassy area at the front of the parking lot. Guy standing in the grass with a controller of some sort, so it registered, drone. Scanned the sky again, saw it, quad rotor, pretty good size. They made him bring it down and leave. I don’t know what the law is regarding these things in NC, or whether the owners of the property just didn’t want him doing it there.
Transmitting classified government information on unsecured private computers is a federal crime.
It's much more serious, but it doesn't get prosecuted.
So, I guess they can just jam their "federal crime" where the sun don't shine.
“two punctures in [her] lawn tractor.”
TIRES. Two punctures in [her] lawn tractor TIRES.
Sheesh...