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Community => Recreation Commons => Topic started by: Rusty Edge on July 31, 2015, 04:44:40 AM

Title: DRONES
Post by: Rusty Edge on July 31, 2015, 04:44:40 AM

They're just getting rolling. They have plenty of practical applications. Maybe as many potential abuses.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/29/kentucky-man-shoots-down-drone-hovering-over-daughters-on-back-deck/ (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/29/kentucky-man-shoots-down-drone-hovering-over-daughters-on-back-deck/)

"On July 26 a Hillview, Kentucky, man was arrested and charged with “first degree criminal mischief and first degree wanton endangerment” after shooting down a drone that was “hovering” over his property.

According to WDRB, the man–47-year-old William H. Merideth–said the drone was hovering while his daughters “were out on the back deck.” Merideth said his girls came in and said, “Dad, there’s a drone out there flying over everybody’s yard.”

Merideth’s neighbor, Kim VanMeter, said she has a 16-year-old daughter who lies out in the backyard and the drone hovered over their house, “stayed for a few moments and then she finally waved and it took off.” VanMeter added that the idea of “a drone hovering with a camera is creepy and weird.”

Merideth came outside with a shotgun and saw the drone over the neighbor’s yard and determined not to shoot unless it came back over his property. He said, “Within a minute or so, here it came. It was hovering over top of my property, and I shot it out of the sky.”

He checked his surroundings before doing so and said, “I didn’t shoot across the road, I didn’t shoot across my neighbor’s fences, I shot directly into the air.”
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There's more to it, but essentially he thought that it was  criminal trespass considering he had a 6' privacy fence, and he was suspicious of it's intentions, either photographing the girls, or casing the house for a break-in.

To me, it's the same as breaking the camera of somebody caught trespassing. It wasn't following the streets, it was hovering over the back yards. Granted, he wasn't allowed to use a firearm in that town, but I seriously doubt if police will come out to stop peeping or harassing drones, so he's kinda on his own, and he probably didn't have a water canon or sufficiently large Tesla coil to zap it out of the sky.  Or a T-shirt gun.

Considering that drones are impairing the ability of aircraft to fight forest fires, and buzzing planes approaching airports, regulation is overdue.

Title: Re: DRONES
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 31, 2015, 05:01:13 AM

With a decent lawyer, no jury in the world would convict that man.

Title: Re: DRONES
Post by: Unorthodox on July 31, 2015, 02:12:21 PM

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAngc1AhUOg#)

Jump to 5:48. 

Always liked this show and boston legal (same people made both) 

Title: Re: DRONES
Post by: Rusty Edge on July 31, 2015, 05:29:38 PM

I suddenly remembered the time that Uno was attacked by a remote control airplane...

Title: Re: DRONES
Post by: Unorthodox on July 31, 2015, 05:44:03 PM

Still have the scar.