Posted on 08/01/2015 11:31:04 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Curious, I’m sure you have general aviation planes overflying your property.
How do you determine if they are spying and if you should fire on them?
Roll them in a little flour,,,
tastes like Chicken!
Regardless of what you think your "rights" are, you fly your drone over my head or my house without permission and I'm bringing it down.
If this clown was flying his drone commercially without a AC/Section 333 exemption, or a SAC-EC, or a COA, then he's a danger to the community.
Flying for a hobby is one thing, but flying commercially is another matter entirely because the FAA controls commercial UAS, not the local laws.
Clowns like this guy are responsible for the loss of property during a brush fire recently in CA whose flight over the fire grounded the firefighting aircraft and for the near miss of two airliners over JFK.
Modern radio systems have a 2-mile range, so that's a pretty big area to search.
“Try READING the article FIRST.... before you jump to concoctions that it’s just an innocent perverted peeping Tom with a Drone camera hovering over little girls sunbathing in their backyard.”
I read the article and found nothing that would convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the drone operator was acting illegal. I did see evidence that would convict the guy who shot down the drone of reckless endangerment, possibly illegal discharge of a firearm, etc.
Second, even if he was a ‘peeping tom’, that does not justify taking the law into your own hands. Call the cops. BTW, you do not own the airspace over your property. Nor do you have an expectation of privacy outside your home, even if it is your privacy fenced backyard.
“It was an $1,800 Drone. What does that tell you?” I haven’t the foggiest. Why don’t you tell me what that tells you?
It’s called property rights, gun rights and a right to privacy. Ever hear of the 2nd and 4th Amendment of the Bill of Rights?
Rights trump, laws, statues, regulations and ordinances period. The are inalienable. Meaning you CANNOT put a lien on Rights with laws, statue, regulation or ordinance. Rights trump everything, but our Creator. This is because we each have right as “Human Beings/Spirits” from our Creator. No person, entity, group, business, government body, etc... can violate it.
As for “air rights” over your property the law is unclear. No one has private ownership to the Air or Seas. Therefore, it falls under Admiralty law.
Anyhow, the drone was clearly spying on his daughters. You ever heard of “Stalking” laws?
You would be correct if these girls were in a public park, beach, etc.... However, when you are on private property the rules change. No one can come in there and VIOLATE your right to privacy. When people violate you or your family. Certainly peeping Toms/perverts, etc... Not only do you have a Right to defend your family, but it’s your duty to defend it.
So I don’t know where you come across about taking the law into your own hands. The ONLY PEOPLE guilty of that is the pervert drone operator. Humans DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to VIOLATE other human beings. Certainly little children.
For the record, the cops are not their to SERVER FIRST and then come to protect if needed. If they are at a hot scene then yes, but if they have to come to where you are at. Which they do most of the time. They are not LEGALLY LIABLE if anything happens to you or your family while you were waiting for them. .... So in other words you are on your own........... if you are being assaulted. The police are there first, to investigate what happened. Now if its still going live, then yes they can defend you at that point. However, if it’s over, then there is nothing you can do about it.
What, are you "Barack on Global Warming", Enlightened? That's not at all what the facts are. The guy was 100% wrong. He's going down.
Only if the jury convicts. If I were on the jury, I would vote to acquit.
No, Principled...I TOTALLY get that and agree, but that isn’t what happened here and I am flummoxed as to how many FReepers are seemingly ready to shoot something down before knowing the laws and facts.
Lol! :)
----So, if I'm to use YOUR logic and presumption, then I guess you would be against firing a weapon in your house to protect yourself against an intruder, as it's prohibited by city ordinance?
No, Chief. Let me type slowly and spell out some "gun stuff" for ya. You can lawfully use deadly force for protection where your life and family's lives are threatened. (You and I can both agree that we'll do that, no matter what ordinances, laws, etc say.) You CANNOT lawfully randomly shoot aerial vehicles down just because you "think" you or your daughter are being spied upon. The shooter is being charged and your and his facts about the law in this matter are wrong.
That the pervert had a lot of disposable income?
WTF???
Real red blooded Americans would not defend this.
You are defending a drone taking photos of little girls sunbathing in the backyard of their home. Little perverted peeping Toms.
Even the little girls ran inside to their Dad terrified and YOU defend that????
Absolutely Astounding!
For the record five of his neighbors are defending him, and the police did
“They didn’t take the SIM card out of it…but we’ve got…five houses here that everyone saw it – they saw what happened, including the neighbors that were sitting in their patio when he flew down low enough to see under the patio.
‘Our rights are being trampled daily,’ he said. ‘Not on a local level only — but on a state and federal level. We need to have some laws in place to handle these kind of things.
‘You know, when you’re in your own property, within a six-foot privacy fence, you have the expectation of privacy,’ he said. ‘We don’t know if he was looking at the girls. We don’t know if he was looking for something to steal. To me, it was the same as trespassing.’
You obviously talk to yourself a lot as well, because I have no idea what you're babbling about.
Exactly!
I agree 100%!! Boneheads are going to ruin it for us all.
When drones are outlawed, only outlaws will have drones.
Lol! True!
Nice try, ma'am, but your facts on THE STORY HERE are 100% wrong. However, if you'd like to shoot and ask questions later, you just go right ahead little lady. PS - Hat tip to you on your astute observations that our daughters should be protected from peeping pervs, though, Miss Obvious!
Well, Surtz4Brains, I don't plan on visiting the small stream shanties that comprise your neighborhood of Gumbyville, Mississippi but I will now consider myself lucky to be FAR away from you - and also consider you lucky in that you actually have access to the internet.
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