This is a pretty amazing product. The Lily Camera.
Birdshot is smaller than buckshot and less effective. Birdshots don’t penetrate heavy clothing. From Wikitopia,
Either BB or birdshot if they are different, their range is limited to 3-4 yards.
When the guy says the drone was at altitude over 200 feet, that doesn’t mean it is over 200 feet above the ground, does it? Isn’t altitude measured from the sea level? Most houses are above sea level. If Meredith house was 190 feet above the sea level, there’s no contradiction between the two claims.
That depends on what’s used to monitor. Some sort of infrared could measure to the ground.
Apparently not.
Since a few of us are wrapped up in this, http://www.criminalpropertydamage.com/kentucky/
In the absence of protections against drones, the existing law trumps an argument about personal security or air space.
There are reasons this could be dismissed. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Hmmm… the drone landed, presumably in or near Meredith’s yard ( a neighbor reportedly retrieved it). And there was probably time between when he shot it down and the neighbor retrieved it, and when Boggs arrived to find and recover it… Where is the memory card…
I am thinking about building fighter drones to counterattack drones flying into my airspace. My drones will not carry camaras. They will carry black oil spurting guns to make the camaras of the other drones useless.
Note to self:
If coolweather’s drones are overhead, put up umbrella to avoid falling oil. Or, catch/recycle oil in lawnmower.
^ Thanks for your technology improvement suggestion. I guarantee my drones will not pollute. They will only spray a little of oil vapor like your hair spray. The residue will disappear in the air. Black olive oil will be used.
I like it. Disguised as a raptor.
Note to self:
Catch black olive oil and cook with it. (oh wait… that requires cooking…)
I guess it will depend how you interpret “any property which you have no authority to do so…” If your means to stop an activity you object being done in your own property is limited, is destroying the tools in carrying out such activity allowed? You are allowed to kill a person under certain circumstances. It would be odd if you are not allowed to damage an object under certain circumstances.
Its not how we interpret the Ky law, its how they do.
We do not know what constitutes “in his own property” (sic) and what circumstances justifies “authority to do so”. Gotta love the vagueness of some legalese.
You added to your post, but the response remains the same. Its up to the Ky courts to decide. (Capitalizing both letters in KY makes me think of a personal hygiene product… sorry)
One of my friends from college, a retired Navy guy, has a new company where they hope to use drones to check utility lines instead of using helicopters, which is expensive and can be dangerous. I think it’s fantastic. Not all drone use is nefarious.
LOL I had to read this twice!. Thought they were checking utility lines ,not helicopters.
Oops. And I’m usually picky about my writing. My bad!
The new World Trade Center is 1700 feet tall. I should own at least that much airspace above my home. There is no reason the people that own that land should own much more vertical space than I do.
LOL! Of course, there are many legitimate business uses for these things. It is when a 18 yr old punk attaches a gun to a drone and fires it - and the cops say he was within the boundaries of the law - my hair begins to stand on end. Or when a swarm of drones prevents fire fighting helicopters from stopping a fire engulfing tens of cars on a CA freeway. Or when a neighbor’s punk kid flies its pest drone and spooks farm animals (there are disturbing videos on Youtube showing horses running away from drones).
Sax, you might own the airspace but only within reasonable limits, and the court might grant an easement to someone to use it:
Btw, I worry just as much about self-driving cars.