[DugwayDuke]

I don’t suppose it occurred to him to ask them to fly over different property?

[Enlightened1]

So if a peeping Tom is filming/taking pictures of your young daughters (2 little girls in this instance), wife or girlfriend...

You are going to be polite to the pervert about it?

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

I don’t suppose it occurred to him to ask them to fly over different property?

The story doesn't say where the 'pilot' was located. If he was flying FPV, and from the story it sounds like he certainly was otherwise there's no way to know whether the "friend's house you're taking pictures of" is in the frame or not.

So, without knowing the pilot's location it's pretty difficult to ask them to fly over different property.

It doesn't really matter because the pilot isn't supposed to be flying drones over buildings, such as these folks' houses.

[Altariel]

I don’t suppose it occurred to the operator to keep his “toy” either on his own property or on *public* property, and not his neighbors’ properties.