http://wncn.com/2016/05/27/father-son-caught-by-surprise-as-drone-shot-out-of-sky/

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – A Rutherford County man flying a new drone with his 7-year-old son was caught by surprise when someone shot it down.

Gary Sammons said he was flying the DJ I Phantom 4 Drone near his Rutherford County home last Saturday when the incident occurred.

Sammons said his son was watching the drone’s path on an iPad and asked him who people on the ground were.

As he moved the drone closer and hovered, that’s when someone at a neighbor’s home fired several shots.

CBS North Carolina’s sister station WKRN News 2 spoke with Bryon Brock, the owner of Vivid Aerial in Whites Creek where Sammons purchased the drone.

“When you watch someone point a gun, whether it’s on video or in front of you, it makes your subconscious mind think you are being shot at,” he said.

Despite its damaged propeller, Sammons was able to fly the drone safely back home.

“[It] puts that drone in a very dangerous predicament,” Brock said. “There is no telling where it can fall. If it falls into an oncoming car and causes a major accident or mass casualties the question is who is responsible.”

Brock said he had another customer who also had their drown shot down by a neighbor in Hendersonville three weeks ago.

“It’s a federal offense to shoot down an aircraft and the FAA has deemed the drone an aircraft,” he said.

Drone attorney, James Mackler with Frost Brown and Todd, is currently representing a drone operator who had his drone shot down in Kentucky.

According to Macker, the law is unclear to drones with respect to boundary between private property and federal airspace.

“What hasn’t happened yet is a court case directly applying aircraft laws to drones in these particular incidences,” he said. “Drones are considered aircrafts by the FAA. We all have the right to privacy and we all have the right to protect our property, but we all need to be good neighbors and that applies to both drone operators and land owners, and if you see something you think is improper, the best approach is to call the police or the FAA, not to take your shotgun and take matters into your own hands.”

News 2 chose not to identify the man who shot at the drone in the most recent incident in Murfreesboro since he was not charged with a crime.

The responding deputy could not identify a law that had been broken.

 

No law yet, anyway.



 

Quit flying your drone over other people's property and it won't get shot down.

So an airliner flys over your house you can shoot that down too?

If I flew *anything* over Rutherford county, I would be disappointed if someone didn't shoot it down.

In the patron state of shooting shit, Rutherford county likely has the most guns. ...and, their Sheriff was just indicted, by the DoJ, today!

An airliner doesn't have a camera nor hovers in closer for a better look at you.

 

That's a great example, because a little perv-copter and a Boeing 777 are pretty much the same thing!

I got my peepee slapped last time I posted in a thread like this.  Get off my lawn.

If someone walked up to your property line with a camera, would it be ok to shoot them?

Ok by me but you still might get arrested because you're shooting a live person and not a flying toy.

 

False equivalency

They don't even try anymore

 

It could we have the technology and the airlines have the money if they wanted to...

Wouldn't be very stelthy

 

What about a remote control car...

 

Airliners don't hover just outside my window with a camera.

Or buzz and stampede cattle.

Or bother with a wife and daughter while they're sunbathing.

Drones do this regularly.

We have been seeing one flying over the Air Force base here every now and again. Damned thing got out over the flightline and was getting close Tuesday.

Problem is that sometimes the President, when he comes here, is well within range of that drone.

Good shoot. Quit teaching your 7 year old to be a peeping tom.

What the fuck is an aircrafts? Are they like deers and mooses?

Hey, my county finally made it into a medicfrost thread!

Can I shoot a news van if it gets too close to my house?   They have cameras.

How about a cop car with a dash cam?   Is it ok to shoot that?

What do news vans and cop cars have in them that pervcopters do not?

Still a false equivalency

Gonna go with yes, since they are apparently all fun to shootses

DONUTS!!!!!!

Ooooh!  A true debater.  I like (not in ghey way).

Pretty much.  Just that you can't eat them after shooting them.

How do people think that Google gets pictures for Google earth.

Property lines and "public" pools and anything that can be seen from the roadway can be considered fair game to me, but flying a drone over my privacy fence and hovering low to video tape my family deserves a shoot down. IMHO

What do you say is the minimum altitude for a drone in your backyard?

If I can hit it with #8, it's too low.

A toy drone is an aircraft? Sure...how about a kite? Ok, a kite with a gopro?
It's a toy, that's about it. The FAA should have imposed a ceiling for operation and skipped calling it an aircraft.

There's no expectation of privacy from govt intrusion, but when this concept was crafted the helicopter was the issue. Now we have people hovering into the airspace below the 500 foot aircraft minimum and lingering in the area, generating video. Time to revisit the issue. There's no way a lingering drone should be permitted to spy on you.

I agree.  Thank God none of my neighbors are into drones.  I wonder if a quality air gun is enough to shoot one down?  Also, for all the folks who are okay with drones flying and hovering over private property, if a drone malfunctions or crashes on private property does the property owner have to give it back?  At that point the drone would be a trespasser.  

Good shoot. I need a net cannon.

I predict a new market.

Defensive Response Drones.   DRD's.

Send them up and dogfight your neighbors intrusive breach of airspace.

Dumb post is dumb.

They're not at all in the same category. And I don't care if they "technically" are because both are considered aircraft. Not comparable.

Cheers!
-JC

And then also the "could fall on a car" bullshit also goes out the window.

 

Keep your shit over your shit and you won't have problems.  Why is this so hard to understand?

4 time outs and a lock

When you crash your $400 quad copter do you call the FAA and make a report?

Does the FAA come out with NTSB?

Do you have to have certs to put your 48" Styrofoam airplane together?

I mean they are aircraft JUST like everything else...

 so when was your drone shot down?

It's one thing to fly over, completely another to hover over anothers property, doncha think?

ETA: I've got no problem with you flying over my property, start hovering and we'll have issues.

I would support this.

The proximity of neighbors would prevent my "anti-aircraft" response to a drone... But maybe my HOA could add a prohibition to our rules, preventing the operation of drones outside of your property lines.


1DD

Hold drone for ransom err... a recovery fee.

Big difference here.  In your privacy fenced back yard you have an expectation of privacy.  If the shit head down the street drops his drone 15' above my head while I'm bbq'ing, or while my wife or daughter was swimming or sunbathing, I think I'd be inclined to remove it from the friendly skies.

i shoot at everything that comes in my airspace.cant have people invading my privacy.everybody with a drone is a peeping tom and just wants to see somebodys wife or daughter sunbathing.no way is it just a fun toy to fly.damn 7 year old kid should be put in jail for being a perv.what the hell is a 7 year old even doing outside?shouldnt he be in the house playing video games?damn kids.i bet he was recording all the neighbor ladies and making a scrapbook of sunbathing middle aged women.

im also a paranoid fuckin idiot who thinks the world revolves around me and everybody is always out to get me.

Giving your kid a quadcopter makes him a peeping tom?

Next thing you know giving him a gun will make him a murderer.

My thoughts, too. Good shot.