Discussion for article #239598
And any regulation or law governing their use will be delayed for years and years because no one will actually want to try to catch up with the technology.
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If it’s low enough to catch with a balled up t-shirt, it seems to me (and apparently the DA) that it’s fair game.
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What in world was a law enforcement officer thinking? The drone is dangerous and was perched right above the people…low enough to be hit with a tee shirt. What could this cop have been thinking?
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a drone that was hovering over his group of friends…pilot…said he was not invading the group’s privacy
An innocent dronestander…
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The only way to take down a drone is with an anti-drone-drone. Because whose going to arrest a drone?
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The aircraft belonged to a pilot who works for a drone company, who said he was not invading the group’s privacy
Low enough to be hit by a thrown tee shirt? A new group has been born. Hobbyist drone fuckwards that think they have a right to be complete and total assholes.
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The real story here is the gross over-reaction of the cops (again!). Guy arrested for assault with a deadly t-shirt, standing his ground, and resisting being spied on by flying robot. WWGOS?
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What do you want to bet that the drone’s owner was only doing it because there was a hot woman in the group? I ask you, if you were on the beach, how would you handle a creepy guy standing two feet away from you leering at your spouse/girlfriend?
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Dronebros are already a thing. Not saying that drones attract douchebags, but there are a lot of douchebags with drones.
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I hope this goes to a jury.
$10,000?! The bail bond system…another part of the criminal justice system that needs to undergo reform.
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I actually don’t think it was an overreaction by the police. The law does say you are not allowed to interfere with a drone, even OVER YOUR OWN PROPERTY! Ask the guy in Kentucky that shot a drone hovering over his daughter while she was sunbathing in their backyard. The prosecutor did decline to prosecute probably because if he could down it with a T-shirt it was super low and close, but that is a matter for the prosecutor to decide.
Drone uses are certainly going to be pushing the asshole envelope with this! Think about- no such thing as windows that face onto private property. Every possible moment outside your house may be recorded and placed online. Thanks drone nerds!
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When first I heard of “drone hunting licenses” etc. I dismissed it as more paranoid gun-nuttery. Now, after a couple of years of seeing ever more sketchy drones hovering around operated by who knows who for who knows what purpose, I am 100% ready to sign on. Bring them down by whatever means necessary.
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California officials may consider recreational drones a “headache,” but if recreational drones are outlawed, only outlaws will have recreational drones.
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Self-driving cars, drones, Donald Trump being taken seriously-- we are surely in the last days.
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Drones don’t drone people, people drone people.
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So true! And the only way to stop a bad guy with a drone is with a good guy with a drone.
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If he could hit it with a t-shirt, it was too close.
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The pilot said he wasn’t doing anything wrong? Bull, if he was low enough a guy could bring it down with a balled up t-shirt the owner was too low. My guess is the owner was enjoying peeping on the man and his friends.
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