Judge rules man had right to shoot down drone over his house

[SlowBurn]

Stand Your Airspace
http://www.cnet.com/news/judge-rules...ver-his-house/

[b4uqzme]

Good for Merideth.

Let it go Boggs...let it go.

[muggsy]

How much should you lead a drone?

[Longitude Zero]

Excellent decision. The pilot of the drone was a Peeper.

[Droolguy]

Great, we now have precedent that says that peoples opinions are more important than actual flight data.

This is a perfect example of our justice system catering to public opinion as opposed to actual justice.

I swear they might as well just give the popular media free reign over prosecution in this country, it's not like they aren't judge and jury now-a-days anyway.

Headline might as well read "Man let go despite hard evidence that he's lying, because who the hell cares about facts?"

[SlowBurn]

How much should you lead a drone?

Not sure, maybe 4", but here's the right load:
http://www.ammoland.com/2015/08/snak...#axzz3q5ETXtqe

[Scarywoody]

Who else wanted to see a picture of the daughter to see if it was worth it?

[Bawanna]

Yeah, I'd definitely need to see the daughter to make a good decision on something like this.

I probably would have blasted it too though.

I do agree with droolguy though, the media controlls a lot of stuff they got no business controlling now days.

[GROTMAN]

I think shooting down a drone is ok as long as you have the proper permit..

[yqtszhj]

Not sure, maybe 4", but here's the right load:
http://www.ammoland.com/2015/08/snak...#axzz3q5ETXtqe

Thats awesome. Perfect reason to get a shotgun..

[Bawanna]

This is no BS. We just had a call at the front desk, said she had a Drone or a UFO flying over her house.
Wanted to know if it was ok to shoot it?

Girl (not a violet yet) asked me how to answer and I said I'd go ask the officers.

They wanted to know what I said and I told em blast the sumbuck!

They said the answer is no, can't shoot in the city limits. I asked what if it's causing a threat of serious injury or death, then they saind blast the sumbuck?

Thank goodness for the internet, how did anybody know anything before the internet.

[OldLincoln]

So, if the drone is behaving in a threatening manner like trying to run into your front door, you can shoot it. Some smart kid should come up with a directional EMP thingy (ray gun?) to swat them down.

[CPTKILLER]

Good!

[DeaconKC]

I am not a shotgun hunter, but wouldn't 400' be out of most shotgun loads' range?

[MatCat]

That judge is off their rockers, I make my living making electronics for 'drones', and I have seen the pilots own data and raw video, he was about 150 feet if I recall in altitude, and his cameras where forward facing getting the horizon, the persons property was not even visible to the camera feed. Second to that anything in the air is federal, your land rights do not include the sky and things that fly in it, regardless of it being a full sized jet plane or a paper plane. I am all for self defense for legitimate infringements, but this case was not one of them, if anything the guy that shot it down created more of a safety risk then solving one. Sadly it is a slippery slope these days, the FAA wants hobbyists to stay below 400', but below 400' is very visible to the general public whom get excited over things they don't fully understand other then the crap the media poops out, why I almost always fly above 500' to avoid the hassle of pissing someone off that thinks my plane can see them way the hell down there :P.