Completely Hypothetical Question

kevhed72
kevhed72 Posts: 5,189
edited June 22 in The Clubhouse
I was just relaxing and thinking about my day, when this purely hypothetical, curious question popped in my head. If one was so inclined, how could they crash or shoot down someone else's drone....say in a residential area. Just wondering, for no particular reason at all.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,563
    It's a federal offense, regardless.
    You do not own the sky/air path above your property. The FAA does. There will be flight logs on the drone or transmitted from the drone.
    Shotgun works well.

    https://www.goodiesrc.com/can-someone-shoot-down-your-drone/
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 52,159
    I saw on a cop show out in I believe Arizona where a guy kept flying a drone low over his neighbor's house. The neighbor got fed up and shot it down. The cops didn't do anything with the shooter due to IIRC the fact the drone was being flown too low.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 2,587
    There’s no way I’m watching one of those things hover over my head or near a window without doing something.

    Brian

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,563
    edited June 22
    bcwsrt wrote: »
    There’s no way I’m watching one of those things hover over my head or near a window without doing something.
    There are definitely rules for that.
    Trust me I get it!
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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 2,105
    Bird shot works swell.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,536
    Sacrificial drone and claim incompetence?
    I disabled signatures.
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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,393
    Can't legally discharge a firearm within 500' of a residence so that rules that out. Maybe a wrist rocket slingshot or a high powered pellet gun (both available at walmart) if the bad machine in the air won't go away. Or maybe a laser pointer might work to blind it enough that it would crash?

    FWIW I don't condone destroying a drone and would rather let it go away on it's own rather than face legal consequences. I believe that's a given; there will be consequences if one decides to take out a drone.
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