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...
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?
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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.
And the judge told him not to shoot down anymore drones while the case is pending.
Seriously?
It's Bullitt County, KY, whaddya expect? 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.
You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.
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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One shot, one kill........ It saves a lot of ammo!
One shot, one kill........ It saves a lot of ammo!
yawn
Member, Clan of the Border Rats -- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
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.
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.