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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: 2) by helel on Monday May 18 2020, @04:27PM (2 children)
If your right to property disappears the second you use it to do something illegal then wouldn't the farmer lose the right to his farm the second he failed to meet the letter of the complex and sometimes self-contradictory laws and regulations governing his business? If it's not his farm then the drone operator is within their rights flying a drone over it, filming what happens there.
This mess of "but they did X" can go back forever which is why we have laws, courts, and police to bring people suspected of violating the former to the later.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday May 18 2020, @11:51PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @12:08AM
In other countries the law assume you are intelligent and if you bother someone with a drone on their property you knew the risk of it getting shot down.