Are your boomerangs designed to return or are they the killer type which don't return?
Printable View
Are your boomerangs designed to return or are they the killer type which don't return?
When people in this thread get it in their head that any action to take down a drone operating on your property is a criminal act and stop making stupid comments we can discuss the topic sensibly.
Just like someone driving onto your property - you can’t just smash up their vehicle. It makes you liable.
Quote:
Are your boomerangs designed to return or are they the killer type which don't return?
Shirley the Killer types would be preferable, then the cops can't get your location when you accidentally kill your best mate, unless you have been careless & not wiped your dabs & DNA off. Of course, I am presupposing DNA can be wiped clean & if not, then one is for the high Jump.[bigsad]
Tombie, if I was running a farming operation and those dimwit animal rights activists sent drones over my property to spy on my operation, or, if one was sent to hover outside my windows and look in, it would be well and truly my duty to shoot it down. My opinion is that privacy trumps legality. Pastoralists are allowed to shoot dogs straying on their property so why not drones?
Actually you do own the airspace above your property, it can't be trespassed upon, and that's been a maxim of English law for centuries. And it was confirmed in a recent Victorian case:
Developer of luxury Elwood apartments ordered to take down crane swinging over family'''s home
Note where the judge says that it's a clear trespass.
In practice a drone crossing your boundaries or hovering over your property at anything below a "reasonable" height would be trespassing. I'd suggest anything below 100m would be actionable.
And I'd happily bring down any that did turn up over my property.
Sigh .... again .... basic legal precepts ..... you do have rights to your airspace.
The original maxim was that the right ran to the heavens, but once commercial airflights started it became understood that it ran to a "reasonable" height, and 10,000m was above that.
No you dont - the precedent was set years ago (studied at Uni in my Law units) and if the court case above was appealed it would have been thrown out on the "trespass" aspect but not maybe on the safety aspect.
Here is Canberra we have fast food delivery by drones and this aspect has been throughly reviewed by the legislature and found and have found no case to answer. To come in to drop the food the drones have to come in over other people's hpmes and properties and complaints that people had were dismissed as they did not own the space above their houses. Noise was the only valid issue.
Next people living next to the local hospital will be wanting to shoot down the Southcare Rescue helo as it comes in low over homes to (trespassing in the home owners airspace) to land at the hospital.
[QUOTE=Bigbjorn;2975609]Tombie, if I was running a farming operation and those dimwit animal rights activists sent drones over my property to spy on my operation, or, if one was sent to hover outside my windows and look in, it would be well and truly my duty to shoot it down. My opinion is that privacy trumps legality. Pastoralists are allowed to shoot dogs straying on their property so why not drones?[/]
Yes Cattle Rustlers could be using them to suss out the farm layout ready for a midnight -3am visit. Would a drone lens refract the blast flash from a 12g or dazzle it?