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Originally Posted by kaywoodie
My blind, gimp azz would have done the same thing. And I'd dared the owner to set foot on the place!!!!


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Kudos to the owner, I'd like to be on that jury.


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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


Really? The nation was NOT founded on property rights.


Honestly don't give a rats azz whether it was or not, bring that chit into my backyard and hover around, and it's coming down. I may live in a city, but my neighborhood is full of rednecks, coonazzes, etc.... Nope, we didn't hear anything officer...

Wish I was on the jury when he goes to trial, no way he'd be found guilty! Given a civic award maybe...

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Local News story with a few words from the shooter.



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[bleep] that Drone.

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And the judge told him not to shoot down anymore drones while the case is pending.


Seriously?

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Originally Posted by 458 Lott
If you have a hunting bow there is a neighborhood friendly way to dispose of unwanted drones.

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If my family or house was been scoped out via a drone, I'd do everything possible to make sure it would be the last flight of that drone.
...with a version of these on the other end.

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Originally Posted by 458 Lott
Just because they are smaller doesn't change a thing.

If you're flying your r/c copter, park flier etc in your yard, a park or r/c field no big deal.

You start flying it over property you have no right to fly over and are taking video or pictures of them and their family, you have a problem.

Personally I find the small drones right outside your window much more invasive than a military or LE drone flying 1000's of feet AGL.

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A few years back the SCOTUS somehow found a right to privacy in the constitution. Regardless of whether its there or not, it's now the law and everything about us is now sealed. So how does flying a camera over our backyard get around the court's ruling?


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In my almost septuagenarian mind, hovering a camera a few feet over two young sunbathing girls has only one purpose. If a cop fails to grasp that, he's a damn poor cop. If a prosecutor fails to grasp that, he ought to be fired immediately.

It was a very bad idea to shoot at the thing, but he had every right to "confiscate" it by any other means available to him. As I said in my first post pages ago, the need to preserve evidence such as the copter owner's fingerprints justifies knocking the thing out of the air.

Were I a judge there, I'd be happy to sign a search warrant to see if the copter owner has child porn on his computer. Because I'd agree that there's probable cause based on this event.


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Originally Posted by RWE
And the judge told him not to shoot down anymore drones while the case is pending.


Seriously?



It's Bullitt County, KY, whaddya expect? laugh That's Louisville's Redneck Bedroom, where those who COULD afford to move, did, when busing took effect in Jefferson County Schools.
It's within commuting distance of Louisville, but outside Jeff County, where all the badder things happen. Minorities are just that, in Bullitt County, and family still means something. It's REAL America. He just might get off there.
They'll have a heckuva time finding a jury to convict him, if the charges aren't dropped altogether, and that MIGHT happen. You never know in Bullitt.


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The shooter is facing felony charges for "criminal mischief" and "wanton endangerment"

http://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-dispute-emerges-over-drone-shot-down-by-kentucky-man/

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“Within a minute or so, here it came,” he said. “It was hovering over top of my property, and I shot it out of the sky.”

Police were called to the scene; Meredith now faces felony charges of wanton endangerment and criminal mischief, with a court date set for September.


It also appears he lied about how close the drone was to his home.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...shot-down-drone-was-higher-than-alleged/

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The pilot of the drone shot down Sunday evening over a Kentucky property has now come forward with video provided to Ars, seemingly showing that the drone wasn’t nearly as close as the property owner made it out to be. However, the federal legal standard for how far into the air a person’s private property extends remains in dispute.

According to the telemetry provided by David Boggs, the drone pilot, his aircraft was only in flight for barely two minutes before it was shot down. The data also shows that it was well over 200 feet above the ground before the fatal shots fired by William Merideth.


There has been no evidence shown that any pictures were being taken of his daughter nor his property.

For a crowd that talks so much about "rights" and "obeying laws", some seem quick to jump to conclusions with very few real facts.






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Lets see.

If I remember what was said.
His daughter saw if first went in and told dad.

Then dad came out and saw it for him self.

Dad went to get shot gun.

Got shot gun went out side and it was still with in the area.

He took aim and it was with in the shotguns kill range and shot it out of the sky.

I do not think that it was just buzzing threw the area.

And the police gave it back to the perps. with out taking the chip out of the camera.

How do they know what the thing was taking pictures of.

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I've not fired a weapon in the city limits in anger for several years now. My neighbors dog used to yap like a sumbeach at all hours of the night. When I'd approach the fence and yell at it the dog would viciously yap several inches away.

One night at 2 AM I walked out the door....coaked the yapping sumbeach to within 3 inches away and fired 3 fire breathing shots into the ground. The yapping sumbeach hit its owners back door running so fast it broke down the screen door. When Larry come running out I yelled across the fence......what in the helll was that explosion back here, sounded like it was in my back yard. After that night I'd tap on my back window if I heard a yap and it would go dead silent for the night.



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That's the most intelligent thing I've ever known you to say


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States need to pass laws prohibiting flying of anything below 1000ft agl over private property except in a flight path w/o written permission. Don't want a Cessna over my roof low level either. Fines and jail time for "drone peeping" need to be instituted as well.

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Exactly. Just this weekend there was another incident of a drone interfering with a private plane.

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