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posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 18 2020, @03:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the duck-season-drone-season dept.

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


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday May 18 2020, @03:40PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 18 2020, @03:40PM (#995866) Journal

    Laws should be the same as for any aircraft.

    Making investigation of such a crime more difficult doesn't make it any less of a crime, it makes it more of a crime.

    If you have a genuine concern about a drone, a better thing to point at it is a video camera. It probably has a limited flying duration. It will go somewhere to land soon. Follow it. Gather evidence. There are legal procedures you can avail yourself of.

    Nah! Just grab a gun and shoot first, ask questions later.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Tuesday May 19 2020, @07:13AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 19 2020, @07:13AM (#996216) Journal

    Laws should be the same as for any aircraft.

    Nonsense. Let's get the inevitable car analogy in here. Ripping up a toy RC school bus with your favorite assault rifle should be just as bad as ripping up a fully loaded real school bus, right?

    Making investigation of such a crime more difficult doesn't make it any less of a crime, it makes it more of a crime.

    So it's ok for me to steal your bank account information to investigate that you aren't committing tax evasion? And if you try to hide the information I would need to transfer your funds to some other country, that makes you more a tax evader?

    Nah! Just grab a gun and shoot first, ask questions later.

    Better - don't admit anything to the cops. It's possible the do-gooders had this on video, but you don't need to help dig your grave.