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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2020, @09:01AM (4 children)
He should just claim that he is a cop and that he thought it was someones dog.
(Score: 5, Informative) by choose another one on Monday May 18 2020, @10:37AM (2 children)
No need to claim to be a cop, farmers have legal rights to shoot dogs threatening livestock even in no-gun-rights places like the UK.
Long as he can convince the authorities he thought it was a flying dog, should be ok.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Monday May 18 2020, @03:47PM
That's a very interesting point. If he could legitimately claim it was harassing his livestock could he shoot it down like he would a dog?
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday May 18 2020, @04:23PM
> Long as he can convince the authorities he thought it was a flying dog, should be ok.
When pigs can fly!
(Score: 5, Interesting) by driverless on Monday May 18 2020, @11:07AM
Why, was the drone painted black?