A Hillview, Kentucky man was arrested Sunday night for doing something many other Americans would do and not think twice about. In this day and age of constant government surveillance of our every move, it is certainly easy to see why he took action. Privacy is of a concern, and one man sought to protect his family from another prying person.
William H. Merideth had a complaint levied against him for a firearm, and the police were responding to that particular issue when they showed up at his home. Merideth didn’t lie, nor did he mince words. He immediately admitted to shooting down a drone that was flying over his property. Once shot, the drone crashed in a field near Merideth’s house. Meredith recounted his story:
“Sunday afternoon, the kids – my girls – were out on the back deck, and the neighbors were out in their yard,” Merideth said. “And they come in and said, ‘Dad, there’s a drone out here, flying over everybody’s yard. Well, I came out and it was down by the neighbor’s house, about 10 feet off the ground, looking under their canopy that they’ve got under their back yard,” Merideth said. ”I went and got my shotgun and I said, ‘I’m not going to do anything unless it’s directly over my property.’”
“He didn’t just fly over,” he said. “If he had been moving and just kept moving, that would have been one thing — but when he come directly over our heads, and just hovered there, I felt like I had the right. 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.”
Sounds like someone is about to find out the deed doesn't have the "from the bowels of the earth to the heavens above" wording any more. Gonna go double if it was owned by an LE agency.
"My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it." - Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn
A Hillview, Kentucky man was arrested Sunday night for doing something many other Americans would do and not think twice about. In this day and age of constant government surveillance of our every move, it is certainly easy to see why he took action. Privacy is of a concern, and one man sought to protect his family from another prying person.
William H. Merideth had a complaint levied against him for a firearm, and the police were responding to that particular issue when they showed up at his home. Merideth didn’t lie, nor did he mince words. He immediately admitted to shooting down a drone that was flying over his property. Once shot, the drone crashed in a field near Merideth’s house. Meredith recounted his story:
“Sunday afternoon, the kids – my girls – were out on the back deck, and the neighbors were out in their yard,” Merideth said. “And they come in and said, ‘Dad, there’s a drone out here, flying over everybody’s yard. Well, I came out and it was down by the neighbor’s house, about 10 feet off the ground, looking under their canopy that they’ve got under their back yard,” Merideth said. ”I went and got my shotgun and I said, ‘I’m not going to do anything unless it’s directly over my property.’”
“He didn’t just fly over,” he said. “If he had been moving and just kept moving, that would have been one thing — but when he come directly over our heads, and just hovered there, I felt like I had the right. 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.”
Sounds like self defence to me. Protecting my girls is a priority with me and my youngest is 41.
"My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it." - Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn
Merideth didn’t lie, nor did he mince words. He immediately admitted to shooting down a drone
Shoot. Shovel. Shut up.
DON'T give the cops an easy arrest. Don't answer the door when they come snooping around. They have speed-traps and donut shops to attend to, they won't stick around long.....
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."-- Thomas Jefferson
Hillview ain't that far from me, maybe 35 miles. I hadn't heard about it, but I've been out of town for the last few days....
Yeah, it's inside city limits, and he discharged a firearm, but I'd have done the same, under the same circumstances. That's probably a misdemeanor, in any event, in KY, outside Louisville and Lexington.
You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.
I'd rather have spent birdshot land on me than that thing. Shotgun may be louder but that arrow would be more dangerous/likely to cause injury than falling 7.5 shot.
don't want your drone shot down, don't hover it over my family
no way to know who was controlling nor what their intent was from child pornography to casing the joint out, or intent to bodily harm.
property rights are what this nation was founded upon.
hope he gets off
but anymore, justice is a hard thing to find in a court of law in this country
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I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
Careful application of the netting used to keep birds off of fruits and veggies could solve that problem too. Just have to figure out the guys pattern with the RC POS. Snare it and smash the schitt out of it.
There is no way to coexist no matter how many bumper stickers there are on Subaru bumpers!
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