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.
My daughter tells me that a ‘drone’ flies around her property around the same time every day. She thinks it’s a military drone from Eglin/Hurlburt which is right next to her property. It’s small, about a foot or so in diameter. She says it ‘watches’ her while she is doing yard work or feeding the chickens, etc.
She is tempted to take her shotgun out..............
On what theory? First, it would probably be deemed a trespass by them justifying her right to shoot it down. Second, even if she were found liable in a civil suit, the damages would be limited to the value of the destroyed drone - a couple of hundred bucks at most.