Another drone shooting. This is not going to go away.

[Ross3914]

A few bad apples are going to spoil it for others.

You can see it coming. Once the government agencies, like the fire department, started complaining about drones, it was set in motion.

Regulation is bound to get traction. There isn't going to be alot of sympathy for the drone community either. It's going to be, "They made their bed. Now they can lay in it."

The lack of responsibility of a couple operators are going to bring things like min/max alt corridors, min separation from buildings, people, livestock. It isn't going to take a rocket scientist to figure out it's a cash cow for things like registration fees, insurance, licensing, etc. I can't see how it's going to end any other way.

 

[wbraswell]

Officer, I really thought it was them aliens coming back to abduct me again. I'm not going with them again, no sir. I let them have it.

 

[Watchdog]

The Drones are just the first wave of scouts.

Next come the Terminators.

 

[Engine49guy]

I have a neighborhood creep that flies one around looking in peoples back yards, I have seen it twice and its annoying at best.

Jamming a frequency is illegal by FCC regulations and the cops are gonna hassle you if you fire any projectiles into the air because those projectiles have to come down sometime.

A decent water stream could knock one down and Im sure it wouldn't be hard to make something low volume high pressure that either attaches to a pressure cleaner pump or for higher volume a small portable pump .

Best of all how can anyone complain that you are squirting water at their drone without sounding insane or like a total peeping Tom pervert.

 

[Magload]

They had a drone on TV news that could shoot back. Some one mounted a compact pistol on it and was flying it and shooting stuff. Don

 

[BigBill]

Your drone comes to my window, it dies. You come to complain? Not a smart move.

Anything that comes looking in my window won't be there long. Peep on me 00 will fly. I purchased a case of 00 before the cost went crazy. Good for blowing holes for ice fishing kidding Lmao.

My hunting camp is so bad my neighbor won't come there at night. Don't send a drone. Just knock on the door in the daytime be civil.

 

[Rastoff]

Jamming a frequency is illegal by FCC regulations...

Is it? Can you post a law to this?

It would be really easy to jam the control frequency. Further, it would only take about 5 seconds of jamming to bring it down. How would he prove you did it? This is by far the best way to deal with pests and much preferable to shooting.

 

[mclark202]

I live in this state and police really close to this jurisdiction and know the laws. Sucks that this guy got arrested. I agree that the damage to the property was correct for the charge of criminal mischief, but the officers should have let the man take the case to court without an arrest. The laws for shooting a firearm in this area are simple, if you are doing it safely you are doing it legally. This means that the charge of wanton endangerment was a bull**** charge. Shooting birdshot upwards into the air(assuming not at an angle with possible people around that direction), is NOT putting people into grave danger of death or serious physical injury. The charge is incorrect and I hope he beats it. I feel sorry for this guy.

 

[Magload]

Is it? Can you post a law to this?

It would be really easy to jam the control frequency. Further, it would only take about 5 seconds of jamming to bring it down. How would he prove you did it? This is by far the best way to deal with pests and much preferable to shooting.

The newer type radios that have been out for years now are hard to jam, but a sweep generator may work. Don

 

[Magload]

I live in this state and police really close to this jurisdiction and know the laws. Sucks that this guy got arrested. I agree that the damage to the property was correct for the charge of criminal mischief, but the officers should have let the man take the case to court without an arrest. The laws for shooting a firearm in this area are simple, if you are doing it safely you are doing it legally. This means that the charge of wanton endangerment was a bull**** charge. Shooting birdshot upwards into the air(assuming not at an angle with possible people around that direction), is NOT putting people into grave danger of death or serious physical injury. The charge is incorrect and I hope he beats it. I feel sorry for this guy.

If it was a grave danger I would have been dead a long time ago. many a time sitting in a duck boat in Iowa I have had shot rain down on me it just happens in a public hunting area. I am sure the largest were probably #2s. Don

 

[BigBill]

A roll of toilet paper a bolt, a battery and some copper wire can make a hjammer..

 

[gregintenn]

I can't recall where I read it, but I thought one was legally able to shoot down a drone over his own property.

 

[Kanewpadle]

What county in Washington prohibits discharging firearms? There is legal hunting in every county. IIRC you are in King County. Not counting rush hour(s) very few King County residents live more than a 45 minute drive away from one or more outdoor gun ranges. The large timber companies demanding you purchase one of their use permits before driving onto their property put a damper on a lot of the traditional plinking but there are still the national forests. I'm not sure if Warehouser has changed their policies but they used to be O.K. with plinking and might still be if you bought their use permit.

It is illegal to discharge a firearm anywhere in King County unless at a range. Many of the state and federal shooting areas are being closed down because people act like buttheads.

 

[Watchdog]

The charge is incorrect and I hope he beats it. I feel sorry for this guy.

I feel sorry for him, too, but probably not for the same reasons you do.

 

[Kanewpadle]

I bet you could duck tape a green laser on this and take out a drone at a hundred yards!

Assault with a deadly potato?

 

[BigBill]

They have pools with young daughters. Hoovering a drone over the people's pools is another factor. Sounds weird. They didn't pull the card out of the drone to see what's on it.

 

[Watchdog]

I can't recall where I read it, but I thought one was legally able to shoot down a drone over his own property.

There are numerous articles and legal opinions available online that cover shooting down of drones and the rights of property owners.

The concensus seems to be since early in 2014 is that no, it is not okay to shoot down a drone just because it's flying or hovering over your property.

No point in me wasting my time going into detail about this...y'all can click the mouse as easy as I can. Just Google something along the lines of "legal shoot down drones", and all sorts of drone weirdness will pop up on your screen.

But for all the shoot-'em-down guys, you might want to ask yourself would it be worth the time and expense of going to court once you made your kill?

Of course, you could always call Johnny.

 

[shawn mccarver]

There is a sort of industry group that is creating a voluntary database that drone manufacturers agree to program into their drones so that drones will not fly over certain GPS coordinates, or at least that is what they claim.

Here is where you can add your property to the database to create a no-fly zone over your property.

https://www.noflyzone.org

Here is an article describing the voluntary industry solution:

NoFlyZone.org lets you geofence the area over your house for drones to avoid.

 

[Rastoff]

The newer type radios that have been out for years now are hard to jam, but a sweep generator may work. Don

Well, I don't know a lot about RC frequencies, but unless they are sweeping the fundamental, it's easy to block. You just need a bigger fundamental. The biggest problem is finding a generator in the correct frequency range that puts out enough power. They can be expensive.

 

[Rastoff]

Shawn,
That sounds good in theory, but not practical. In order for that to work, every drone would have to be GPS enabled. Some are, but the home made variety, which is a huge sector, can do what they want.