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Man charged for shooting down drone:
Travis Duane Winters, 34, of Butterfield, was charged with criminal damage to property and reckless discharge of a weapon within city limits Monday in Watonwan County District Court.
A sheriff’s deputy was called Friday to a disturbance at Butterfield Foods. A man said he was flying over the food production company to capture images of the chickens that were being “slaughtered” because of the pandemic.
The suspect admitted to using a shotgun to shoot down the drone — which was valued at $1,900.
I have no idea what you're talking about officer. It must have just crashed. Did that nice gentleman have an FAA permit to fly that drone? He could have hurt someone crashing his drone on our property like that.
Previously:
(2016-01-09) Update: Dad Who Shot Down Drone is Getting Sued. Who Owns the Skies?
(2015-10-28) Update: Dad Who Shot "Snooping Vid Drone" Out of the Sky is Cleared of Charges
(2015-08-02) Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property
(2015-06-29) Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Username on Monday May 18 2020, @07:01AM (15 children)
It's a pretty obvious a case of trespass and invasion of privacy.
This is more of an anti-gun thing than a drone thing. Minnesota has some really terrible gun laws that help noone. They are duty to retreat over there. I have no doubt they will charge him with murder of artificial life or something dumb like that.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2020, @11:37AM (6 children)
> really terrible gun laws that help noone.
No one? I bed to differ, in this case it helps the owner who had his drone shot down.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RS3 on Monday May 18 2020, @04:18PM (5 children)
You're exactly correct- it helps the criminal who was invading someone's privacy.
I don't advocate shooting down drones, but I also don't advocate for low-flying aircraft either.
(Score: 3, Funny) by epitaxial on Monday May 18 2020, @05:46PM (4 children)
Using your argument google maps is an invasion of privacy. If you're worried about people seeing your illegal acts then maybe you could always stop doing them?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RS3 on Monday May 18 2020, @06:32PM (1 child)
You usually write more intelligently.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @12:53AM
No, he doesn't. But then, look at what he has to respond to!
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2020, @06:47PM
Actually, you have a very good point about Google Maps. Certain aspects of Google Maps' Street View are not legal everywhere. [wikipedia.org]
They have been fined for violations in the past and forced to remove or blur location, vehicle, and personal images. Obviously things vary depending on locale, but it's not a universally permitted activity.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday May 19 2020, @06:27PM
BTW, if your comment was meant in humor, I deeply apologize for my curt post about intelligence. Regardless, I wish I could delete it.
I feel quite strongly in favor of protecting privacy. However, as with most things in life, it's a two-sided coin. IE, there are pros and cons, and the debates will rage on...
(Score: 3, Informative) by mhajicek on Monday May 18 2020, @04:24PM (3 children)
Minnesotan here. We are not "duty to retreat."
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2020, @09:11PM (2 children)
Yes you are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @12:55AM (1 child)
No, we're not. We are Babe the Blue Ox state of Ten Thousand Lakes. Can't retreat, unless we can swim, or it's winter and the lakes are frozen, which is most of the time. That, and wood chippers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @08:53PM
Yes, you are.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday May 18 2020, @04:30PM (3 children)
Ok, correction. No duty to retreat in your home. But overall gun laws aren't bad here, certainly not like the coasts.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2020, @06:08PM
No duty to retreat in your own fucking home? Way to protect your natural born rights, you fucking rebel! Minnesota is fucking pitiful. Don't forget your burka when you go outside, brainwashed Dhimmis.
(Score: 2) by Username on Monday May 18 2020, @06:45PM (1 child)
Yeah, cannot buy or sell handguns over there, or even carry a long gun without some kind of permit. I'm not sure how people hunt over there if you cannot carry a shotgun on public land. Seems you would need at least three different licenses or permits to shoot a deer, and you're still breaking some kind of law. In Wisconsin you can open carry a shotgun on public land, public roads, bars. Can rack mount it in your car. There's no law against it. Also really nice hunting registry now, just do it on your phone. If you hit a deer with your car you can keep it, no cops or tags or anything.
(Score: 1) by TapeApe on Monday May 18 2020, @07:43PM
Well, there you go. Get yourself a drone-hunting permit, but be conservation-minded about it. No trophy hunting, just shoot for the pot.