Comment Re:Right to Privacy in One's Backyard? (Score 1) 1197
Typically that doesn't happen after you've hovered a drone over someone's yard.
So the moment the ass with the drone said "are you the SOB who shot down my drone" it's pretty much a different thing
I'm simply not buying the boo hoo argument of the guy with the drone. As TFA said
This is like demanding to be allowed on my property to retrieve the camera you illegally placed in my 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.'"
That moment soon arrived, he said.
"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."
In this case, hovering 10 feet off the ground within the borders of his fence isn't some incidental flying overhead, it's pretty much entering your property and filming. And that should be a criminal act.
It's not like the guy was shooting down something 100 feet in the air or just flying past.
By the time the owner of the drone was about to indignantly enter the guy's property, he'd essentially trespassed once already, and knew the guy was armed. If that doesn't tell you to approach with caution you're an idiot.
This isn't random gun nut shoots shit for fun. This is someone responding to something which is flying so far into what is reasonably his private property as to be hard to accept any reason other than the guy running the drone is an ass and a peeping tom.