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72 years old and one shots a drone with a 9mm.
As dumb and dangerous as that is, I'm pretty impressed. That's a hell of a (lucky?) shot.
At 75'?! I sure couldn't do that. Not without birdshot.
With one shot too, that is a hell of a shot of a moving target. Reminds me of that mall shooter that a guy hit like 10 times from 50 yards with a pistol.
75 feet?
It was 75 feet in the air.
My grandfather could shoot like that past 80, but he was a competitive shooter in the Navy and in civilian life. It takes skill to pop a moving target with any handgun.
Good aim! The privacy concern with these things is real. The full opportunity is now there to have these fly up to your window and look into your house.
Hard pass on drone deliveries.
Drones can also carry weapons, biohazards, waste, endless possibilities of exploitation, imho.
And how do I know this drone above my house is legit? Do i get airspace traffic control over my house? If someone is flying a drone near my roof it's going to explode for sure.
There's plenty of great applications, but it needs to be heavily regulated to not be a privacy nightmare.
Maybe also give certified drones a specific bright colour that privately owned ones can't have so you know it's not some creep or creepy advertising company operating it.
Because it's much better to deliver like this than have the city clogged up and polluted by cars delivering a tiny bag of food. Even more important, medications that are needed urgently or just for someone that's too sick or elderly or disabled to comfortably pick it up themselves.
How is this different from a delivery person looking in your window when they drop off something to your house? Can a delivery person also just as easily "carry weapons, biohazards, waste"? Why would a drone want to carry those things? Why would Walmart want a drone to carry those things and cause harm, as you seem to be implying here, to their customers? A drone company can be regulated and audited to make sure privacy laws are being followed.
Will an infraction occur with a drone? Probably. And then people will have grounds to sue and laws will be built to protect people and their privacy (I hope!).
Drone delivery is coming - how do you want to see this tech being used responsibly?
They physically can, but spying on you via drone in someplace you have a reasonable expectation of privacy (I.e. your house, not the sidewalk or public space) is already illegal.
I fly drones for about 12 years. I flying (racing) drones. It's fun and an interesting hobby. But i absolutely hate the thought of these delivery drones. I honestly don't think looking into windows and stuff like that is a concern.
You don’t shoot at things in public, you don’t shoot into the air near populated/occupied areas, and you don’t shoot at things that don’t belong to you or you aren’t licensed to shoot at. Clearly the thing wasn’t anywhere near his property, so he’ll probably get off light considering how reckless and irresponsible this was.
You sure about that "getting off light" part? The article says he was charged with a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Yep, according to the article shooting the drone carries the same sentencing as shooting at a commercial airliner 👀 they are taking that shit very seriously
I wonder how that works in Deer Trail Colorado where they legalized drone hunting?
I mean, we’re talking about Florida.
But given that fact, it’s probably more dependent on whether it was a white or black drone.
No, it's an FAA -- i.e. federal -- thing.
Shooting at a drone has the same classification as shooting at a passenger plane. He's been charged with a felony, up to 20 years in prison. As it should be. We don't need fucking idiots shooting into the sky in residential areas, regardless of what they think they're shooting at.
You think someone shooting a drone -- a thing that by definition doesn't have any people in it -- should have the same law and sentencing applied as shooting a plane full of people? That seems pretty different to me.
You think a 54 lb drone crashing from the sky isn't potentially deadly to people?
Or bullets falling from the sky.
Yup. Because whether there are people or not, I don't think, is actually relevant to the crime being committed.
I also think attempted murder, and successful murder should have the same sentence. Whether it was successful shouldn't matter for the punishment. They shouldn't get off with a lighter sentence just because they did a shit job, or because the person was too tough to die.
The time has come
We must defend Florida Man
If he got caught, the drone was probably really spying on him
I mean it's not like it would be hard to figure out where it got shot from if you know its last known position and rotation
You could read the article...
He doesn't even need a lawyer. As long as he gets a jury trial he could plead his own case and get acquited. No one wants these things hovering over their property.
lol no, he absolutely needs a lawyer
And remember it's always shut the fuck up Friday
What do you say when the cops first pull you over? "Why'd you pull me over?"
And when they start asking questions? "I'm not discussing my day."
And if they keep asking questions? "Am I being detained, or am I free to go?"
And if detained, what do you say? "I invoke the fifth."
And then what do you do??
Shut the fuck up.
Yep, that's what you do. Don't answer questions.
If they were going to arrest you, they've already made that decision and there's nothing you can do about it. Let it get settled in court.
Lawyers know courtroom procedure. The defendant may have a valid argument but navigating the court process really does take an attorney.
The person who ordered the delivery does.