Friday, July 31, 2015

Do drones trump “Constitutional rights” to both privacy and property?



This man's daughters were sunbathing in his yard behind a six foot fence. The daughters came to get their father and tell him that a drone was hovering overhead. The man shot the drone out of the sky. The owners of the drone came to his house to tell him that he now owed them $1800. He responded by telling them that if they came across the sidewalk, there would be another shooting. The man was arrested for wanton endangerment and criminal mischief.

Chris Matyszczyk writes at Yahoo News,
For his part, Merideth says he will sue the drone's owners. He told WRDB: "You know, when you're in your own property, within a six-foot privacy fence, you have the expectation of privacy. We don't know if he was looking at the girls. We don't know if he was looking for something to steal. To me, it was the same as trespassing."

What would you do?

Read more here.
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