Ya! Dude!

[table1349]

And I can always change my mind. I just went to fetch my mail, the apartment complex swimming pool is packed with babes! I'm charging my drone batteries as I type!

Is this yours???

I kept trying to hit the the Play button before realizing it was a photo lol!

Ahh but the real question is, did you catch the "Where's Waldo" part of the photo. The girl flashing the camera??

This will cause a rush of viewers of the photo, Guaranteed.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Here's the original article by the TV station that first broke the story. Their police chief was quoted as saying it is illegal to shoot a gun in the city.
Hillview man arrested for shooting down drone cites right to pr - WDRB 41 Louisville News

I was thinking that when the drone was shot down it could have veered off into another yard and hit someone instead of crashing in a field. The FAA spokesman in the article addresses that, and talks about it being unsafe to shoot one down; says these are not supposed to be flown over buildings either.

I read before that the FAA was supposed to have new laws in place by, I think, the first of the year. I'm thinking there may not be laws in place yet to act on some of these violations of how/where someone operates a drone.

 

[limr30 3]

From the article you linked to: ...

I just thought I'd try countering some of the knee-jerk, negative reactions here, based on nothing but hearsay. I'm out.

I guess you did not notice the exact same link that I posted on the previous page?

 

[robbins.photo]

Speaking of criminality; what would we call taking video of the girl sunbathing? Assuming she was wearing a swim suit, it would not be classified as child pornography, but what about just a video? Is that legal, considering that she had the expectation of privacy in her own backyard?

In the case of the drone we're discussing here, now we have the other side of the story. Flyer says he wasn't over the shooter's property, but was looking towards another house. And I can tell you, from first-hand experience, at 250' feet altitude, no photo or video will show you "anything" identifiable about "any" person or object of that size. The shooter overreacted. It's called vigilante justice, and it's frowned upon because as in the case here, he had no clue what the flyer was "actually" doing. He "assumed" a scenario, then took violent action. Strange that some here seem to approve of that. But again I state my personal preference...................... the owner, nor "anyone", should fly these things over populated neighborhoods. Why go looking for trouble?!

"......... The drone's owner, David Boggs, says the drone wasn't hovering low over anyone's property, showing flight tracking data to local media that indicates an altitude of more than 250 feet. And he says he wasn't trying to invade anyone's privacy.

"No. 1, I was having fun with my friends and family," Boggs tells WDRB, adding that he was trying out the drone he had only recently bought. He said he was trying to film the house of a friend who lives in the area but was visiting Las Vegas.

"Now the drone is getting a bad name because the Drone slayer made a bad decision and went skeet shooting in a neighborhood," Boggs told local WHAS Channel 11................"

Dispute Emerges Over Drone Shot Down By Kentucky Man The Two-Way NPR

From the article you linked to: "Both Boggs and Merideth say they want to see the video that the drone captured but neither seems to know what happened to the memory card inside the drone that saved the video."

I'm guessing that the dentist that shot Cecil the lion is hiding the memory card as well.

My strategy........................... I'll wait until all of the evidence is in, then make up my mind. I just thought I'd try countering some of the knee-jerk, negative reactions here, based on nothing but hearsay. I'm out.

Which is very close to my strategic position, which is to wait until we have all the facts and then realize I don't really give a crap.

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[snerd]

From the article you linked to: ...

I just thought I'd try countering some of the knee-jerk, negative reactions here, based on nothing but hearsay. I'm out.

I guess you did not notice the exact same link that I posted on the previous page?

Oh, sorry. No, I didn't. Reading too quickly I guess.

 

[limr30 3]

From the article you linked to: ...

I just thought I'd try countering some of the knee-jerk, negative reactions here, based on nothing but hearsay. I'm out.

I guess you did not notice the exact same link that I posted on the previous page?

Oh, sorry. No, I didn't. Reading too quickly I guess.

Just wanted to let ya know that some of us also like to get more info before passing judgment

 

[Designer]

"“Well, I came out and it was down by the neighbor’s house, about 10 feet off the ground, looking under their canopy ..

.. he flew down low enough to see under the patio."

So much for that "above 250 feet high" BS.

 

[Derrel]

"“Well, I came out and it was down by the neighbor’s house, about 10 feet off the ground, looking under their canopy ..

.. he flew down low enough to see under the patio."

So much for that "above 250 feet high" BS.

Hilarious....you are now accepting Shotgunner Ketuckian's POV and telling of the tale as the "truth"? Or are you just trying to be funny? It's difficult to tell!

 

[Designer]

"“Well, I came out and it was down by the neighbor’s house, about 10 feet off the ground, looking under their canopy ..

.. he flew down low enough to see under the patio."

So much for that "above 250 feet high" BS.

Hilarious....you are now accepting Shotgunner Ketuckian's POV and telling of the tale as the "truth"? Or are you just trying to be funny? It's difficult to tell!

Actually, my point is to show that there are at least two versions of every incident, and sometimes more.

Frankly, I didn't believe the first story based mostly on fantasy ballistics.

Then I found the second article of the same incident which hints at a motive.

Then I read the link provided by vintage snaps (post #62) where I learned of yet more previously unreported facts.

Now throw in the "missing" memory card and the three men accompanying the drone pilot.

Adding it all up, I will say that there is more to this story than is being honestly reported.

 

[robbins.photo]

Just wanted to let ya know that some of us also like to get more info before passing judgment

Not me. I've had way too many good rants completely spoiled that way.

 

[The_Traveler]

"“Well, I came out and it was down by the neighbor’s house, about 10 feet off the ground, looking under their canopy ..
.. he flew down low enough to see under the patio."
So much for that "above 250 feet high" BS.

Hilarious....you are now accepting Shotgunner Ketuckian's POV and telling of the tale as the "truth"? Or are you just trying to be funny? It's difficult to tell!

I would think that the laws of gravity and ballistics pretty much negate the drone flier's story.
250 feet up and 50 away will make an 85 yard shot with #8 birdshot damn miraculous.
I would think that at 250 feet the speed of birdshot would be about as fast as I can run.

 

[floatingby]

I would think that the laws of gravity and ballistics pretty much negate the drone flier's story.
250 feet up and 50 away will make an 85 yard shot with #8 birdshot damn miraculous.
I would think that at 250 feet the speed of birdshot would be about as fast as I can run.

Yeah, that is not a believable story.

 

[Buckster]

55 meters / 60 yards:

 

[Buckster]

Interesting that the shooter says it was hovering 10' up and spying on his sunbathing daughter, but in the 3 shots he got off, all the damage his shots did was to break off one blade of one propeller, then it crashed quite some distance away, not in his own yard. That sounds to me like it was up far enough away that only a single pellet of the 3 volleys of bird shot made managed an actual hit. If it was a close as the shooter claims, it should have been blown to bits.

The flight path tracking submitted by the flyer shows that it was much higher when it was over the shooter's house, then suddenly lost altitude and crashed at some distance away, which would seem to indicate that it was the real flight path, not footage from some other flight.

The shooter also said that they saw it flying around the neighborhood, so he went into the house and got a gun to shoot it down if it came over his own house, which sounds a lot more like he was just itching for a reason to shoot this thing out of the sky even before it came near the airspace over his property, not as a reaction to it supposedly spying on his sunbathing daughter from a low altitude in or near his own yard, which is his other account of the circumstances.

The submitted flight path data also doesn't show it being in a position or altitude long enough to have actually been "spying" on his sunbathing daughter, as though this is some sort of pedo-peeper incident. I also notice that the flyer is no kid, and says that it was only his 2nd day with the thing, and was still learning to fly it, so had no intention of going below tree level, for fear of a mishap, which also seem very reasonable to me.

Texts on the flyer's cell phone confirm that he was indeed talking with a friend who wanted him to fly it over his house, presumably in that same neighborhood, another confirmation of his story for why he was flying it where he was.

As for why he showed up with his friends, they were with him during the flying of the thing, so why wouldn't they accompany him to find out what happened? That seems perfectly natural to me.

Obviously, somebody's not telling the truth. My gut tells me that the flight data isn't a lie, and that the flyer's details gel together a lot better than the shooter's.

Kentucky Man Who Shot Drone Out Of The Sky With Shotgun Arrested Faces Two Felony Charges - DIY Photography

 

[table1349]

One excellent method to resolve the issue........Doves. Raise doves, lots of doves. Ever see a flock of doves taking off. Like herding chickens. A natural deterrent. The turbulence they would create could give the little bugger a wonderful ride.

Even better a small AVE (Atmospheric Vortex Engine). Nothing like a small invisible tornado like spiral of air to give the little bugger a dizzying ride.

I'd take that to the next level; never mind doves, go for Canada geese. If one of them can bring down a commercial airliner, imagine what a flock would do to a drone?

Dude, we have some here that people stupidly feed so they are now year rounders waiting on their hand out. Have you ever seen the area where those things hang out. They $#!% everywhere. I'm not sure that all that $#!% is worth all the $#!& it would cause.