Kentucky man shoots down drone and gets arrested

[HumblePie]

It would be nearly impossible to edit the video data log, even with it downloaded onto a computer, and using the worlds best video editing software. Way too many rapidly changing parameters, (ie numbers).
I use a different type of data logger for my r/c boats, and it downloads/prints as a graph. Now *that* I could alter. The only way the pilot could mislead, ie commit fraud, or perjury, and make it believable, is if he did a similar flight with another drone :ninja: then the only thing he would have to edit was the date/time stamp.
Sooo My big question is,-- where is the sd card???? Even if the craft tumbled though the trees on it's way down, the odds of the card popping out are slim.

Who needs to edit it? Just used another flight recording of what you want, alter the meta data on it, and call it the flight of the shot. Just cut the stream of the video off jarringly like it was forcibly shut off. Not to hard. Edit the telemetry data to match that flight and viola, just made the flight where it got shot down as a previously done but more innocuous flight.

 

[Stopsignhank]

I first thought that the drone was only over the guys house for 2 seconds and that is a very quick time for someone to see something in the sky, decide to shoot it down, go get your shotgun and then actually shoot it down.

Then you look at the "video" and you see that it hovers over the neighbors house for 20 seconds. That is still a pretty quick time for someone to decide to shoot something down, get your shotgun and shoot it down. Unless the guy just happened to have his loaded shot gun in the back yard.

Also the article says it was the maiden flight of his drone. I would not fly my drone over houses on the very first flight.

As they say in the south "that dog don't hunt."

 

[Chaotic0ne]

I call tell you from personal experience that people in Kentucky don't ^&*^ around. The guy who shot down the drone is the sorta no-nonsense kinda guy you'd expect to find. They can get really belligerent if they feel like you're *&^&^% with them. Its quite a stark contrast between them and the big city metro types. But in general, they're good people and will treat you right as long as you don't disrespect them. Oh, and most of them have cabinets full of firearms and ammo. If you break in a house, they can shoot you dead legally. I remember there being a case where a 14 year old kid got shot dead after breaking into someones garage. Someone asked him how he felt about shooting a 14 year old kid and the answer was "If I didn't put a bullet in him, someone else would have". So yeah, no remorse.

Personally, I think someone has an expectation to privacy in their own backyard especially if its fenced in and can't be accessed from the street without trespassing. I'm sure the guy that shot the drone down felt the same way. So I can't really blame the guy.

If anyone ever thinks about trying to confiscate guns by force in the USA, I guarantee Kentucky would be a really hard nut to crack. It wouldn't even be worth trying. I hope anyone with such ideas realizes that.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

An update? Hmmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQE9ozut57Q

An interview with the drone slayer, lol, pedophiles, thieves, and ISIS, OH MY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjUuzJVlBMA

 

[werepossum]

I call tell you from personal experience that people in Kentucky don't ^&*^ around. The guy who shot down the drone is the sorta no-nonsense kinda guy you'd expect to find. They can get really belligerent if they feel like you're *&^&^% with them. Its quite a stark contrast between them and the big city metro types. But in general, they're good people and will treat you right as long as you don't disrespect them. Oh, and most of them have cabinets full of firearms and ammo. If you break in a house, they can shoot you dead legally. I remember there being a case where a 14 year old kid got shot dead after breaking into someones garage. Someone asked him how he felt about shooting a 14 year old kid and the answer was "If I didn't put a bullet in him, someone else would have". So yeah, no remorse.

Personally, I think someone has an expectation to privacy in their own backyard especially if its fenced in and can't be accessed from the street without trespassing. I'm sure the guy that shot the drone down felt the same way. So I can't really blame the guy.

If anyone ever thinks about trying to confiscate guns by force in the USA, I guarantee Kentucky would be a really hard nut to crack. It wouldn't even be worth trying. I hope anyone with such ideas realizes that.

I can't really blame him either, but it looks as though his natural assumption that the drone hovering over his house was spying on him/his daughters was incorrect. Assuming the footage hasn't been altered anyway. Sometimes people do things that seem perfectly reasonable given what they know, but get into trouble because they came to an incorrect conclusion.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

I can't really blame him either, but it looks as though his natural assumption that the drone hovering over his house was spying on him/his daughters was incorrect. Assuming the footage hasn't been altered anyway. Sometimes people do things that seem perfectly reasonable given what they know, but get into trouble because they came to an incorrect conclusion.

And they then lie out their ass to validate that incorrect conclusion? Seems like the guy knew exactly what he did. Why else would he have made up such an elaborate story to try and cover his own ass immediately after? We aren't talking minor details open to interpretation. Every detail of his claim for why he shot at it was complete BS.

 

[waggy]

An update? Hmmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQE9ozut57Q

An interview with the drone slayer, lol, pedophiles, thieves, and ISIS, OH MY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjUuzJVlBMA

if the video from the drone is un-edited then the guy was charged correctly.


also the interview from him he sounds crazy. pedophiles? isis? wtf.

 

[Ackmed]

http://www.wdrb.com/story/30354128/judge-dismisses-charges-for-man-who-shot-down-drone

Charges dismissed. And rightfully so.

 

[Jimzz]

http://www.wdrb.com/story/30354128/judge-dismisses-charges-for-man-who-shot-down-drone

Charges dismissed. And rightfully so.

Not so sure. I was on his side but when the video came out it showed the drone was not as low as he said. Let alone it should not matter as he fired a gun in city limits which is against the law.

The drone owners can still come after him civilly though.

 

[MongGrel]

:ninja:

 

[MomentsofSanity]

http://www.wdrb.com/story/30354128/judge-dismisses-charges-for-man-who-shot-down-drone

Charges dismissed. And rightfully so.

Not sure it's rightfully so. The judge cited witness claims that it was below the treeline as grounds for the dismissal. The techological evidence that can not be misrepresented or misconstrued showed it was never that low.

 

[Ackmed]

The judge cited harassment. Hovering over the same house with a camera several times? I agree with him.