Small drone with camera hovering outside my window today.

[Definitely]

You need a sentry gun that automatically takes out anything in your airspace with a barrage of small projectiles...

And you'll get free bird dinners once a week without any effort!

 

[Darth Handsome]

You only have to be accurate left to right...a straight over the shoulder cast. As long as you throw it high and far enough, the line will settle down on the drone. Distance and elevation just have to be "enough", so focus on the left-right aim.

This is an accident looking for a place to happen. He'll birds' nest the reel and it will all be caught on drone video, likely headed for a date with youtube.

 

[scorpionldr]

Well, the rock video was awesome. As for solutions....my neighborhood is too quiet for such silliness. No ideas.

 

[Inertialsky]

anyone inclined to shoot down a model aircraft with a shotgun needs serious mental help

 

[FretNoMore]

anyone inclined to shoot down a model aircraft with a shotgun needs serious mental help

Yes. Everyone knows the right tool is an automatic 50 cal assault rifle.

 

[Stewie26]

Well, the rock video was awesome..

Yeah..that guy has a pretty good arm when you consider that he was sitting down when he threw it.

 

[Darth Handsome]

Yes. Everyone knows the right tool is an automatic 50 cal assault rifle.

They make ARs that are 50 cal?

 

[ArtechnikA]

They make ARs that are 50 cal?

Google 'Beowulf' ...
They are not .50 BMG, but .50's they are...

 

[FretNoMore]

They make ARs that are 50 cal?

I don't know.

 

[SteveHeissner]

If the terrain and proximity to neighbors is an issue perhaps you could down it with a high pressure water hose.

 

[nukes_da_bass]

Too bad you can't buy Estes solid fuel model rockets with motion detecting guidance systems and exploding payload nosecones

 

[mellowinman]

I would just start sunbathing naked, starting with tanning my ass.

 

[bassinplace]

I don't know anything about the technology involved with one of those things, but if you can shoot it down, retrieve it and destroy it, then there would be no evidence, correct?

 

[Darth Handsome]

I don't know anything about the technology involved with one of those things, but if you can shoot it down, retrieve it and destroy it, then there would be no evidence, correct?

Area 51, here we go.

 

[aborgman]

I'm far from being a gun advocate or even a fan of guns, but I would definitely get a shotgun and blast that thing out of the sky. That is some total BS.

Keep in mind I just woke up from a short snooze and am in no mood for some A-hole to be hovering a winged camera near my home. I'd probably shoot the owner given the mood I'm in right now. Stupid Pizza Roll-fueled dreams.

Problem is - the air above your property is a "public highway" that you have no right to control.


Look into the case of United States v. Causby(1946).

The Causby family owned a chicken farm. It happened to be underneath the glide paths to the municipal airport, so planes were passing roughly 83 feet above his property. The planes scared his chickens. Scared them so bad they literally killed themselves flying off the walls in fright. "As many as six to ten of their chickens were killed in one day by flying into the walls from fright. The total chickens lost in that manner was about 150,"the Court noted. Production also fell off. The result was the destruction of the use of the property as a commercial chicken farm."

The end result? Triumph for aviators. The Court affirmed that "the air above the minimum safe altitude of flight... is a public highway and part of the public domain."

 

[nukes_da_bass]

Area 51, here we go.

Wouldn't this be area 52?
Area 51 is supposedly full : beaver:

 

[aborgman]

Talk to the police about voyeurism. I'd be surprised if looking in your window with a camera is not illegal.

Generally looking into a person home through the window from public property is protected - and in fact if you are visible from public property and undressed, you can be charged for indecent exposure... even though you're in your own house.

 

[Darth Handsome]

Wouldn't this be area 52?
Area 51 is supposedly full : beaver:

Ah crap. I shouldn't have brought that up......

 

[DerHoggz]

anyone inclined to shoot down a model aircraft with a shotgun needs serious mental help

Do you record people in their houses?

 

[Immigrant]

Problem is - the air above your property is a "public highway" that you have no right to control.


Look into the case of United States v. Causby(1946).

The Causby family owned a chicken farm. It happened to be underneath the glide paths to the municipal airport, so planes were passing roughly 83 feet above his property. The planes scared his chickens. Scared them so bad they literally killed themselves flying off the walls in fright. "As many as six to ten of their chickens were killed in one day by flying into the walls from fright. The total chickens lost in that manner was about 150,"the Court noted. Production also fell off. The result was the destruction of the use of the property as a commercial chicken farm."

The end result? Triumph for aviators. The Court affirmed that "the air above the minimum safe altitude of flight... is a public highway and part of the public domain."

Yeah, I was grumpy when I posted that and at the time, didn't care if it was legal or not. As far as the chicken farmer, he got screwed. I'd love to be a judge in a case like that. The airlines and airport would have to chip in and relocate the guy, depending who was there first anyway.

If the drone could be reached with a good blast from a water hose, that would be a safer way to go indeed.

Darn. Now I'm conflicted. Do I feel sorry for the chickens or splurge and go to Popeye's®?