Drones Can Legally Peep On You At Home?

[DaSwami]

If you are in an area where you can walk out in your back yard for example, and legally shoot your shotgun at a drone then you probably don't live anywhere near anyone who would want to fly a drone over your house in the first place.

Correct....rural Montana, and I don't apologize!  haha

[rocker59]

Norge Pilot, are you thinking of changing your screen name to Drone Pilot?

We can help you with that.   

[canuguzzi]

Norge Pilot, are you thinking of changing your screen name to Drone Pilot?

We can help you with that.   

Only if you also change yours to Bucket of Rocks? Deal? 

Where is the panities in a wad emoji?

[guzzipete]

Summer cannot get here soon enough!!!!!!

[George_S]

I really can't see a local police department giving a crap that your drone keeps crashing when you fly it over your neighbor's property.

If not one gives a crap, there's never going to be a warrant.

If the drone was from a law enforcement agency, THEN, I think they'd care...

[George_S]

Drone Defender- Coming Soon.

https://youtu.be/k6k9Y3glkRk

[rocker59]

Summer cannot get here soon enough!!!!!!

You said it, Pete...

 :1:   

[oldbike54]

 Don't know about California , authorities in Oklahoma would probably help with drone removal . Geez , does everything have to involve some Govt agency ?


  Dusty

[Wayne Orwig]

Would you need to totally jam the signal, these things must be made from a limited range of components. If you just transmit the "turn Right" signal a fraction more strongly than the owner would that do????

That is 30 year ago thinking.

Odds are, the new stuff is going to be 'bound' to the transmitter codes and use frequency hopping. It would be difficult to duplicate those codes and frequencies in the right order to send new commands. Easier to just drown the signal.

[tiger_one]

As hard as they are to fly, I figure you just need to wait, and they will wreck it on a tree or something.  Some of the kids are really good I reckon, but I have not flown mine in over a year.

[cruzziguzzi]

Bring 'em on.

I want to finish up a semi-auto one of these.

Spud ack-ack!



Todd.

[Kev m]

If the drone was from a law enforcement agency, THEN, I think they'd care...

Oh brother... I can't imagine why law enforcement would be bothering me with a drone, but then I'd simply make a phone call.

Seriously you guys come up with the silliest arguments.

[oldbike54]

Oh brother... I can't imagine why law enforcement would be bothering me with a drone, but then I'd simply make a phone call.

Seriously you guys come up with the silliest arguments.

 "You guys"???

 Dusty

[Triple Jim]

Bring 'em on.

I want to finish up a semi-auto one of these.

Spud ack-ack!

That's a big one, Todd.  I have a more traditional sized one, good for patrolling the beach:

 

[Kev m]

"You guys"???

 Dusty

Yeah, all you 1℅'rs hiding from the gubbment. 

[Gliderjohn]

Maybe get ones own drone that can follow the spying drove home and give the owner a dose of their own medicine. At least you could establish the owner of needed.
GliderJohn

[cruzziguzzi]

That's a big one, Todd.  I have a more traditional sized one, good for patrolling the beach:

We're caught up in making a feed system that automagically, though manually, sizes them and drops the peels like machine gun links. We always have a pressure build wait of up to 6-8 seconds as it is. Sure, and it's a fools toy, but what're a couple of retirees to do of a cold and stormy Arizona evening anyhow?... Drink?!?


Todd.

[Triple Jim]

but what're a couple of retirees to do of a cold and stormy Arizona evening anyhow?... Drink?!?

Yes, drink and build spud cannons.   

[canuguzzi]

Don't know about California , authorities in Oklahoma would probably help with drone removal . Geez , does everything have to involve some Govt agency ?


  Dusty

No one is remotely suggesting that.

[Sasquatch Jim]

  Be careful with your spud guns.  Some states have defined them as destructive devices with penalties as severe as for real cannons. 

[cruzziguzzi]

  Be careful with your spud guns.  Some states have defined them as destructive devices with penalties as severe as for real cannons.

Ain't that the sad truth?


Todd.

[George_S]

Oh brother... I can't imagine why law enforcement would be bothering me with a drone, but then I'd simply make a phone call.

That's the first thing the guilty ones say!

[Sasquatch Jim]

  Okay, after poking around the net for information on lasers, I find that lasers can damage a camera.
 Especialy the green ones.  For anti spy drones a green laser has defense value.  The longer you can keep the laser beam directly on the camera lens, the more damage it can do.  Therefore a green laser of as much power as you can afford, mounted to a rifle sight so that you have an aiming reticle, can be a drone defense weapon.  It won't bring the drone down,
 but it can blind its' camera.  If the drone operator complains to police, he is also confessing to spying on you.
 The only way the laser can harm the camera is if the camera is pointed at it, thus that is the proof of spying.

[dibble]

How about a paintball gun, fast rate of fire, non lethal, small danger area?


or of course one of these



However I'm guessing not legal in all States?

[George_S]

How about a paintball gun, fast rate of fire, non lethal, small danger area?


or of course one of these



However I'm guessing not legal in all States?

That may be OK in Texas? 

[redrider90]

This incident happened in July , we already wore this topic smooth out . No charges were filed .

 Dusty

Actually charges were filed and there were dismissed by a judge.    "a local judge dismissed criminal charges against Merideth in October, she relied on multiple eyewitnesses who said the drone was flying below the treeline".

[atavar]

Remember that peeping in and of itself is not legal, regardless of the method.  Flying a drone over a property may not be a crime, but using a camera to take pictures that invade privacy is, whether or not a drone is involved.  There is pretty much no difference on that score between using a drone or sneaking through the bushes and pointing a camera in a window.  It all depends on how the prosecutor presents it to the judge.

[cruzziguzzi]

How about a paintball gun, fast rate of fire, non lethal, small danger area?

What an excellent idea - well, aside from tie-dying the neighbors cars, homes and pets.

"No, really Bernadette.... there was this drone, you see...."



Todd.

[dibble]

What an excellent idea - well, aside from tie-dying the neighbors cars, homes and pets.

"No, really Bernadette.... there was this drone, you see...."



Todd.

You see I was going to suggest specially trained eagles but I thought you all would think that was silly.

Goalkeeper it is then

[redrider90]

I believe technically the FAA governs all air space everywhere above the ground. Pilots know that flying below 5K feet is flying by sight. Do I have that correct pilots?  But the airspace is still governed by the FAA. I think in the next couple of years we will see a plethora of laws governing drones. It has to happen as these things will be everywhere all the time. Technology has outpaced the law.
I own 1500' of riverfront property but the fed government has legal rights to the water way. So my property line runs down the middle of the river bed and i pay taxes on it but I cannot dam it up to put in a small water power generator. There is a small white water area up stream that is much higher on the far side than my side. If I could put about 2 feet of boulders across my side of the river I would have enough head pressure to generate all the power I need  even in dry times. I own it but cannot use it. That's OK with me.
Speaking of such things the local river association decided one year during a severe drought that all the beaver dams were preventing water flow to get to the reservoir. Of course all things being equal that just was plain stupidity as once the beaver dam backwater filled up then the water would wash over the beaver dam. But they decided to take down all the beaver dams without talking to anybody. Next thing I and my neighbor knew is we heard folks down there tearing down beaver dams. The trouble is once they did the the next day the beaver just started taking down trees and remade the dams. A few phone calls to explain to them that 1. they were not increasing total water flow into the reservoir and 2. The more dams the took out the more trees the beavers took down kind of stopped that one.