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Originally Posted by rebelyell22
No different from someone standing on the street and looking at your house. You don't have a right to shoot it down.
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BIG difference there. Especially if it has a camera on it. If the plane travelled along the roadway path or was sitting on the road itself, it would be incidental and no harm no foul. But nobody has a "right" to fly it over my property, either, unless they want to risk losing it. And if it's a police vehicle, it better be marked as such or it will have holes in it.
Once it enters my air space, it's going to be looked at as trespassing whether anyone is in it or not. And out here in the country, I can shoot guns anywhere on my property without issue. That includes "up". I don't need a right to shoot it down. If there's a multi-bladed helicopter "toy" or whatever hovering over my property, I WILL take it out if I feel the need to protect my property. Because out here, anyone flying one over my property is likely up to no good.
Again- I don't care what any "law" says. Now, you would have to prove it was me that shot it down anyway. How are you going to do that if you're not coming on my property to retrieve it (without trespassing, of course)? Don't worry, it'll be set out by the side of the road with the weekly trash pickup. You can come get it then. "I was shooting at some birds and I thought it was a duck. Sorry about that. My bad eyesight and all."