Small drone with camera hovering outside my window today.

[Inertialsky]

now that would be a fair fight!

 

[DblG]

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Or just get your own drone and use it to follow his wife everywhere and film in their windows, then post it on a website for voyeurs or something.

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I like this idea, though I'd probably be flying my drone & film him flying his drone filming me.

Suburban drone wars this fall on A&E!!!

Hurry now & pitch the idea!!!!

 

[eddododo]

Actually, who owns the airspace does matter. If it's not on his property, it's not trespassing. As to "it's coming down"...what are you going to do? Fire a gun in city limits? Accurately throw a rock 100 feet and knock it out of the air? What major league team do you pitch for?

Why would a pitcher do that..

 

[Inertialsky]

duff beer speaks the truth.

 

[Frozen J]

Kill the robot.

 

[6jase5]

I like the weighted fishing line, no hook of course, just a little weight. If that thing is hovering and within 50 feet, my 73 year old dad could cast right over it and the line just might get a lil tangled. It would take me a few tries but man that would be fun.

 

[bachlover]

Yeah, I'd probably be the coyote to this roadrunner, but like the coyote, I'd keep trying. Link Removed explosives.com

 

[Testing123]

Accurately throw a rock 100 feet and knock it out of the air? What major league team do you pitch for?

Did you miss the video @Stewie26 posted? The surfer throwing a rock from the beach at the drone came really close!
Here it is (the action begins at around 0:43):

Watch the video and it shows a pissed off surfer guy almost bringing down the drone by throwing a rock at it.

 

[Downunderwonder]

All the drones I have seen had multiple helicopter blades encased in bump guards, not your 100ft/sec USAF types. Easy targets.

 

[Downunderwonder]

I like the weighted fishing line, no hook of course, just a little weight. If that thing is hovering and within 50 feet, my 73 year old dad could cast right over it and the line just might get a lil tangled. It would take me a few tries but man that would be fun.

over it with a fly line and hooked fly is pretty well guaranteed to put it down.

 

[Joe Louvar]

All the drones I have seen had multiple helicopter blades encased in bump guards, not your 100ft/sec USAF types. Easy targets.

probably the "Parrot AR 2.0".

 

[Inertialsky]

bump guards are training wheels for newb pilots

 

[Munjibunga]

No harm in checking with the local authorities and seeing what the rules and regs say about it, surely you'd be able to knock it down, you could probably play the harassment angle too . . .

Also, unless things have changed, Go Pro's don't have transmitters (I dare say you could use an eye-Fi card, but I think they have a really short range). So I don't think he'd have the footage of you knocking it down.

He'd have the video if he recovered the GoPro. They record to a Micro SD card.

 

[Downunderwonder]

He'd have the video if he recovered the GoPro. They record to a Micro SD card.

knock it down and disappear it. It never was. Can you imagine the perp asking for a police investigation over his missing toy? If he did, residents all give same story, "I had one of those things buzzing outside my window last week, haven't seen it since". End police investigation.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

He'd have the video if he recovered the GoPro. They record to a Micro SD card.

I do realise that they record images, would be kind of pointless if a camera didn't!

knock it down and disappear it. It never was. Can you imagine the perp asking for a police investigation over his missing toy? If he did, residents all give same story, "I had one of those things buzzing outside my window last week, haven't seen it since". End police investigation.

Kinda what I was getting at . . . what GoPro?

 

[nukes_da_bass]

meh, I still say this is the way to go...

The opening lyrics are right on..."Here comes the helicopter -- second time today"

Dude- that hair!!! And mine is just as bad!
"Middle aged rockers shall NOT maketh music videos!!!".

 

[Downunderwonder]

@mohawk: Exactly, nobody is going to the police over a missing perv cam. The question is whether there is any cam, a fair assumption given the window buzzing, and whether it streams wifi.

In my view, a hovering uav on ones property should be fair game. Too bad for law enforcement uav doing good work, but the technology is far too invasive of ones assumed privacy.

Too bad for the technology too, uav courier delivery goes out the window with everyone shooting them down.

Have to imagine stray bullet deaths would go through the roof. No wonder the feds want to keep a lid on uav operation.

 

[FretNoMore]

Don't be too quick to jump to conclusions though, a drone of this type flying in your neighborhood may not at all be there to snoop on you. I know some photographers now use drones instead of masts to photograph houses for sale for instance, completely legit.

Police are also looking into using these for surveillance and crowd control, I think they may not take kindly to someone shooting their camera down.

If one is hovering outside your bedroom window all bets are off, of course.

 

[ArtechnikA]

Well, on second thought, there may be regs against jamming signals.

Yeah - you can receive radio signals all day long (unless it's radar in Maryland, or telephones anywhere...) but transmitters are more regulated.

But IIRC there are only so many RC aircraft frequencies available, and they work on the principle of mutual cooperation. Might be able to borrow a control rig and just switch freqs until you find the one in use. Since you're closer, yours should overpower his. Big blast of 'down' on the collective oughtta produce some tangible results...

 

[nukes_da_bass]

Get a HAM operators license and you can broadcast on just about any frequency