Drone advice.

[CS25]

No experience nor thoughts have been given to the subject by me on the question or situation posited by OP prior to reading this thread but as I went through the comments it seems key that the law assumes everyone's intentions are puritan with respect to a person flying a drone in airspace wherever it flies. I would think the same puritan intention would be assigned to someone that flies another object at the same time...meaning the person whose privacy is being invaded. Some ideas...

Instead of using another drone at $300 minimum to take out the snooping drone, would an RF controlled helicopters be able to reach the same height as a drone? If so, why not "accidentally" bump into his drone's propeller blades? Or similarly, why not go out and fly a kite and accidentally get tangled up with the drone if the wind cooperates?

[normalguy21]

If your a registered democrat you could shoot it down and blame it on a Republican .

[Unique_Carpenter]

Im waiting for someone to file trespassing or peeping tom criminal charges against drone operators.
It's only a matter of when, not if, and I'm confident that will happen.

[trekker]

Originally Posted by skbinks

For Reference:
http://www.sbphotos.biz/Portfolio/Cl...727-Edit-M.jpg

I'm not a lawyer and I have no idea how accurate that article is but drones are considered aircraft and it is illegal to shot at an aircraft (non-updated laws probably). You own the airspace above your property up to 500 feet (some say 300 or 400 so not sure).

I have a thought (this is not advice and just me thinking with my fingers), it is still illegal but might be harder to prove. Get or make a short range radio jammer. The next time it gets close to your house, jam the signal then when it hits the ground.........

Deliberately interfering with a radio signal is illegal, but jammers are easy to get and unless the drone is being operated by someone working on a very important project with a lot of very expensive equipment, nobody will ever know what happened if you keep your mouth shut.

[trekker]

Originally Posted by atf searcher

Get your own small inexpensive drone a ram it into the invading drone.
Opps!! I was just flying my own drone above my own property and this other drone got in the way.
It was simply an accident. There is now way in the world anyone could prove "intent to damage".

No legal liability at all. If there was any liability it would be against him, it was over your property.
LE would go crazy over a gun shot but they couldn't care less about two drones hitting each other.

If he wants to do it again, fine repeat the same thing. He's loosing more money on his high tech drone than you are on your inexpensive Kamikaze drone.

I like this way.

[JRLawrence]

Originally Posted by Russ38

Meh fuck that, .22 is a faggot round....

Have you ever heard of 22 bird shot? It is very quiet, but it has a short range.

Next thought.

Can you identify the make and model. If you can, you can determine if this thing can transmit the pictures. Most toy models can not transmit picture; they store the pictures in the camera. Thus, no pictures of you shooting it. Story done. It vanishes, probably lost power or something.

The more expensive model, and custom models can transmit back to the operator. If you know the model, you can probably figure out the radio signal that control the thing, or at least the range of signals. Then the jamming idea is possible. Keep in mind that you are suppose to be licensed to do radio transmission, even for CB radios. Linear signal accelerators are definitely illegal (a sick bird) so keep any jamming device hidden.

I like the ides of shooting the thing down, if it can't take a picture of you doing it.

It sounds like some idiot just trying to have fun by harassing his neighbors. Just a guess, but if he bought this at the toy store, and hasn't got a lot of money in it, you may be safe.

What can you get away with if no body saw you do it, or recorded it.

If the ducks can't see me hiding (don't move around when they come over), and they see very well, a stupid kid's toy will not see me hiding in the duck blind.

Sounds like a lot of fun. Let's get together and have a hunting party. A long barrel magnum goose gun has more reach than a 22 bird shot. Does anyone else have a 10 gauge shotgun? I haven't had that thing out in decades.

JR

[JRLawrence]

Originally Posted by atf searcher

Get your own small inexpensive drone a ram it into the invading drone.
Opps!! I was just flying my own drone above my own property and this other drone got in the way.
It was simply an accident. There is now way in the world anyone could prove "intent to damage".

No legal liability at all. If there was any liability it would be against him, it was over your property.
LE would go crazy over a gun shot but they couldn't care less about two drones hitting each other.

If he wants to do it again, fine repeat the same thing. He's loosing more money on his high tech drone than you are on your inexpensive Kamikaze drone.

He said he is living in the middle of a 25 acre farm. I took that to mean he is not in town. If that is correct, LE has nothing to do with what he does on his own farm.

The last case of shot gun shells I bought was about $5 per box of 25.

Let's go hunting.

JR

[Slitlikr]

^^^^+1^^^^
I think the prick got the message from my neighbor and knows we're serious.
Haven't seen it since.
My neighbor did determine the model which is high end and transmits live video.
$1,800.
If it gets past my neighbor's place it will be shredded with flying lead.

[Tetas]

Originally Posted by Slitlikr

If it gets past my neighbor's place it will be shredded with flying lead.

That's what I was thinking...it'd be worth paying for the drone if I HAD to!

I'd buy a lawyer first and turn it into a Supreme Court issue, let's get this shit straightened out as to what you can video on private property!
(You can't video me naked in my bedroom while STANDING on my property...WHY should it be legal to use a drone 5' above the ground to do the same thing?)

[BDD]

Shoot a drone down that is taking pictures over your property in Texas outside the city limits? Come on people.

If you are charged, and that is a BIG if, demand a jury trial. Anybody think a jury in Texas ... the "Come And Take It" state ... will convict? I would bet a year's hobbying money that they won't.

[MrThom]

.22 cal shot is NOT bird shot. Its snake shot. The dude in Kentucky used a shotgun, and went to jail about an hour later...

[oldbutstillgoing]

Air rifle. .177 pellet at 1200 fps through the rotors will do the trick. No noise either

[oldbutstillgoing]

Air rifle. .177 pellet at 1200 fps through the rotors will do the trick. No noise either

[BDD]

Paint gun. I know more than one person with a paint gun stores under the hood of their grill in their back yard in Texas.

[skirtchaser79411]

Blow it out of the sky but just use bird shot