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I can see both sides. On the one hand, you have no idea how or why that person came to be on the streets. Many are mentally ill. Some just can't afford rent.


On the other hand, they can be aggravating, especially when they move into public spaces like parks and make them unusable by the people who pay taxes for the maintenance of those spaces. They need to be run out of there and if drones are a tool to do that I'm all for it.

But not just for some guy's amusement.

Our game wardens here in Texas use drones quite a bit. I always do everything possible to stay legal, but it's annoying as hell to be fishing or duck hunting while the damn thing is buzzing around watching you.

I was told in 2022 by a deputy that shooting one down was illegal. Federal offense through the FAA as they are considered aircraft. Prior to the conversation with the deputy, about 3 weeks, we were sitting outside on the patio and someone hovered one over us about 100 feet. I had an idea who it was. We had some neighbors about 1/2 mile away that had bought a house for weekend use. They lived in St. Louis. The drone was around until I went inside and got my rifle and laid it on the table on the patio.

Another weekend and the city dudes were back and my wife came to the shop telling me the drone had been hovering over her at tree top level. That tree is no more than 30 feet tall. My temper is usually in control but not this time. I drove over to the house where I figured this was coming from and he had just landed it. I told him to keep it away from my family or it would get shot down. He threatened to call the sheriff but I beat him to it. The deputy went to see this prick first and he informed the deputy he could do whatever he pleased. That was the wrong thing to do. The LEOs can get a person's license revoked if they see a need and he let the young prick know that. Then he came to see me. Our visit went excellent. He was understanding and let me know to call him if it happened again. It hasn't. I asked him if anyone has shot one down yet and he suggested I not be the first.

Needless to say I despise drones when folks like this have them.

probably sage advice

but my question would be - at what point is it considered trespassing?

I want legislation for it to stop. At some point you'll be getting pulled over by drones to check your license - you won't interact with a human. Drones will be scanning for expired tags and emissions control , god know what else. The genie will be out of the bottle once AI becomes SOP

Somebody somewhere makes a jammer that would interrupt the signal from the controller--cause the thing to fly off somewhere and never been seen again.

No such thing for a drone, according to the law.

In 1972, the US Supreme Court invalidated the vagrancy laws across the nation. Prior to that, vagrants were routinely rousted by the police, and eventually (if it persisted) arrested, charged, and sentenced. Thanks Supreme Court.

I wish they would beat that drone guy's ass to a pulp.

No. I regret not finding out who the pilot was, and having them watch as I stamped their little toy into the ground as we waited for the sheriff to arrive. My thoughts were not quite so clear and measured at the time though.

I am thinking of taking the 870 with some 3", #2, bismuth loads with me on future range trips.

The point, I guess is that if a "normal" person in their right mind, doing perfectly legal activities, has the thoughts occuring to them that I did that day, imagine what a crack head, mentally ill person, or criminal might be tempted to do, when discovering they're being spied on.

Those folks who use these little gadgets to mess with people for laughs might one day get something they don't want.

After catching back up on this thread, I see that blasting a drone out of the sky may not be a smart move! Looks like one more of our rights, (privacy), taken away from us by our government. But it's for our own good, I'm sure.

codes depts have been using sat pics for a number of years now.

our county allows 120 sq ft sheds to be built/placed without permits. Easy enough for them to check that by roof size. those sheds also don't count towards property tax valuation.

you basically have no right to privacy in public areas.

but, perhaps a drone flying over, hovering, zipping closer, moving in and out from you as in the shot of the guy at the C store in the first video rises to the level of harassment?

Last i heard, while one does not have an expectation of privacy, one does have a right to be free from being harassed?

A suppressed subsonic .22 rimfire from inside a building with a window open would be hard to trace if it happened to put a hole through the vitals of a drone. If the drone happened to fall on private property after developing a "mechanical malfunction" it could be disposed of like any other windblown debris than ends up in someone's yard.

You could always set up a clay pigeon thrower next time you're testing loads out there and bring the 870 along. With the ear protection on, you couldn't hear a drone and if it just happened to fly into your zone of fire........

hmmmmn???

that sounds plausible.

could lead to a slap on the wrist with a good atty. One who might even say "but your honor, what kind of fool flies their drone over a shooting range?"

I like it. Plausible deniability.

That what Jim Biden replied when asked how they got by with so much.

Works for them. Well you may need to be a Dem.

DF

Drone or no drone, nearly every step you take in public is on a hard drive. There is no privacy.

Do these drones transmit the video via Bluetooth/wifi to the fliers receiver, or do they only retrieve video upon retrieval of the drone?

A drone over your property is trespassing.

You have the right to self-help in evicting that trespasser.