Nope, I think he's entirely justified in shooting that drone. If it was a burglar casing the join it wouldn't have been an issue he'd have been celebrated. He should challenge it and find out if the guy was recording because surely that counts as the dude creating indecent images of children?
Actually the drone went over the house for mere seconds. There was no way he was recording the girl, and likely didn't even know she was there. He was not justified in the slightest, he's just extremely paranoid or just doesn't like technology.
""It was just right there. It was hovering. I would never have shot it if it was flying," William Merideth said in an interview with Ars Technica. "When he came down with a video camera right over my back deck, that's not going to work."
Merideth claims that the drone was first spotted hovering over his neighbor's house—a claim his neighbor confirms—and he had no intentions of taking any actions against it until it entered onto his own property. Merideth's 16-year-old daughter was laying out by their pool at the time, and when the drone pilot decided to stop his vehicle and get an electronic eyeful, he decided enough was enough. "
Okay, but that's just what the guy is claiming; that doesn't make it true. On the other side we have a video of the flight path and it very clearly does not hover, but flies over, and not at deck level, but at a couple hundred feet up. He's either paranoid or using his daughter as an excuse.
Don't worry, I read the article :P I just think the guy is stretching a number of details. In the video of the flight path, the drone is about 200 feet in the air, and merely flies over both his and his neighbors house. It never stops, and it never drops below 190 feet.
Nope, I think he's entirely justified in shooting that drone. If it was a burglar casing the join it wouldn't have been an issue he'd have been celebrated. He should challenge it and find out if the guy was recording because surely that counts as the dude creating indecent images of children?
Actually the drone went over the house for mere seconds. There was no way he was recording the girl, and likely didn't even know she was there. He was not justified in the slightest, he's just extremely paranoid or just doesn't like technology.
going on the article -
""It was just right there. It was hovering. I would never have shot it if it was flying," William Merideth said in an interview with Ars Technica. "When he came down with a video camera right over my back deck, that's not going to work."
Merideth claims that the drone was first spotted hovering over his neighbor's house—a claim his neighbor confirms—and he had no intentions of taking any actions against it until it entered onto his own property. Merideth's 16-year-old daughter was laying out by their pool at the time, and when the drone pilot decided to stop his vehicle and get an electronic eyeful, he decided enough was enough. "
Okay, but that's just what the guy is claiming; that doesn't make it true. On the other side we have a video of the flight path and it very clearly does not hover, but flies over, and not at deck level, but at a couple hundred feet up. He's either paranoid or using his daughter as an excuse.
Don't worry, I read the article :P I just think the guy is stretching a number of details. In the video of the flight path, the drone is about 200 feet in the air, and merely flies over both his and his neighbors house. It never stops, and it never drops below 190 feet.
yes so look at this way, 11 hours ago there was only that initial article for me to look at. no flight plans or other side of the story.
Ah, gotcha, that makes sense! I didn't look at when the update was.