Reasonable fear of serious injury is the standard for lethal action in self defense. Destroying a device isn't lethal action, thus a much lesser standard satisfies justification.
It's nothing more than common sense. You keep your crap in your yard and I'll keep my crap in my yard. Hover some mechanized hunk of metal over the top of my kids and you can kiss its ass goodbye. Simple...
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Here in the US a lot of us tend to take our private property rights very seriously, much more so than other countries do. I"m glad we do. Blood, sweat, tears etc... into buying and keeping it, its mine, you are not welcome unless invited.
Mornin', Pedro !
I'd like to supplement Jeff's comments above.
Dunno' about how they do it in other countries, the N.Eastern U.S., and don't CARE.
Under the law here in Az. failure to remove oneself IMMEDIATELY from private property when advised of trespass constitutes an ASSAULT.
Waving that creepy thing off a time or two, giving it a chance to get gone, and than blowing it away would stand as reasonable and acceptable behavior in ANY court in this state.
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Consumer drones interfere with CA firefighting efforts
BY Kenzi Abou-Sabe July 19, 2015 at 5:22 PM EDT Los Angeles county firefighters battle a wildfire in Wrightwood, California, July 17, 2015. The wildfire is one of several in California over the past month where firefighting efforts have been partially disrupted by people flying private drones. Photo by Gene Blevins/Reuters
Los Angeles county firefighters battle a wildfire in Wrightwood, California, July 17, 2015. The blaze is one of several recent California wildfires in which firefighting efforts have been disrupted by people flying private drones. Photo by Gene Blevins/Reuters
When a fire that started in the hills northeast of Los Angeles spread to Interstate 15 Saturday, drivers were forced to flee their cars because of flames that eventually destroyed 20 vehicles.
A rare rainstorm helped to control the wildfire, which is now about 60 percent contained, but not before private drones flying over the wildfire grounded firefighting aircraft for almost half an hour. RELATED CONTENT
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Saturday’s incident marks the fifth time in a month that firefighting operations have been temporarily grounded by a private citizen flying a drone.
In the past month, drones have gotten in the way of firefighters in San Bernadino County, the Plumas National Forest and, most recently, Interstate 15, which connects Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
A July 12 incident at the edge of the San Bernadino National Forest grounded firefighters’ air tankers for eight minutes.
“That may not seem like a huge amount of time, but in a fire emergency every minute counts,” U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Carol Underhill told the Associated Press.
Part of the conflict between private drones and public safety is a lack of clear, legislated regulation around what drone owners can and cannot do, partly because the tecnology is relatively new.
State lawmakers in California are currently drafting a bill that would impose heavy fines and potential jail time on anyone whose personal drone interferes with firefighting efforts.
California law currently states that interfering with firefighters is a misdemeanor, but the proposed legislation would severely heighten that punishment.
I am not sure its too much a problem here in the UK yet, but one area I see these drones being used and abused is by the Press..
There are laws that supposedly prevent them being flown near people or private property, but with todays cameras and zoom lens, that's not going to provide much protection from snooping..
The other area of concern is there use by terrorists. Even moderately low end models have GPS guidance, which means low cost off-the-shelf auto-pilot technology is now easily within their grasp..
While many consumer grade drones have very limited payload/range, I predict that the auto-pilot technology alone will end being used in other terrorist related applications..
There was never a drone in this story. It's called a quadcopter, or perhaps an RC helecopter if it has 1 main rotor, and they've been around for 50 years. The drama with the media over the term "drone" makes me laugh. It's like "assault weapon" - they simply cannot use it enough.
It's like calling a magazine a clip - makes us all look stupid.
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