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This is a case where technology is ahead of the law. The law will have to evolve to re-define "trespassing" and "voyeurism" to include the use of drones. The technology is so new, that hasn't had a chance to happen, yet.
It sounds like the arrest might have been from him firing off the shotgun in an area where he shouldn't have.
It MAY be that had he shot a possum, he may have faced similar consequences.
I wouldn't won't my neighbor discharging a shotgun at a hovering target either.
Shooting down at a poisonous snake in the canal where the shot wouldn't be flying across yards is another matter.
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This is a case where technology is ahead of the law. The law will have to evolve to re-define "trespassing" and "voyeurism" to include the use of drones. The technology is so new, that hasn't had a chance to happen, yet.
With such laws, the recourse would be to call the police and his actions would probably have still landed him in jail, assuming it was the weapons discharge that put him there.
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I dont blame him.. this should or could be an interesting outcome in court. I think a net gun like you see in the comics or movies would be awsome... then just keep the drone, maybe resell it.. Tough crap for the owner.
I have to side with the home owner here. After reading the article, they indeed did arrest the wrong people. Maybe there is no law written yet, but there needs to be a law stating that trespassing drones - not commercial (RE: Amazon) are subject to destruction.
Private aircraft are not permitted to fly below 500ft, drones should be restricted to the same rule when over private property. Which of course would force them into airspace where they should be required to have transponders and such. I am for that.
This is my greatest fear from these stupid, horrible things. I was laying on our common deck one evening last week to relax and watch the sunset and someone was flying a drone over it, it kept hovering there, flying away, flying back, hovering, all about 25 feet from me. It made me feel exposed and violated, and I couldn't ignore it. Within a few minutes I just got up and gathered my stuff and went inside.
To me it was no different than if some stranger just walked upstairs to the deck, stood there and stared at me.
I wanted desperately to throw something at it, but there is a thread here about a guy who swatted one down that was stalking him and he got arrested for it.
This is just another way for rich brats to torment people, like when laser pointers were all the rage and one would follow me for blocks just to be annoying. This is worse though, a total invasion of privacy IMO.
I have to side with the home owner here. After reading the article, they indeed did arrest the wrong people. Maybe there is no law written yet, but there needs to be a law stating that trespassing drones - not commercial (RE: Amazon) are subject to destruction.
If someone illegally parks partially blocking your driveway, should it be legal to destroy that vehicle?
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I wanted desperately to throw something at it, but there is a thread here about a guy who swatted one down that was stalking him and he got arrested for it.
Actually, in that case, he walked out into the middle of a public street and destroyed it.
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This is worse though, a total invasion of privacy IMO.
