New Jersey man arrested for shooting down his neighbors drone.

[Falubii]

[QUOTE=Venezuelan;46127601]"New Jersey man arrested for shooting down his neighbors drone."[/QUOTE]

No we're changing the subject so we can discuss preferential treatment or something.

[fruxodaily]

My neighbours have been trying to shoot down my WiFi name for a while too

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[Boozy&Bitter]

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;46123631]Why?

You guys are making it sound like the term drone is something that was first granted to the Predator recon/missile platform and it spilled onto other things, but the term "drone" is a word that predates any form of electronics and machinery and it makes a lot of sense to apply it in the "mindless, command fulfilling unit" on a lot of stuff!

[editline]1st October 2014[/editline]

And EVEN if you go with the actual definition of army and other official institutions

A hobby RC plane is, by definition, a drone.[/QUOTE]

Are you purposely ignoring the fact that [I]literally[/I] almost everyone associates the word drone with bad things? Like it or not, the word roughly means 'scary invasive flying government robot with weapons and/or cameras', and that's the idea you're going to conjure when you say it in a public setting.

If you want to destroy the RC hobby, calling them "drones" is the way to do it.

[Morbo!!!]

Well the use of Drone to refer to any UAV kinda annoys me; To me, drone implies that it requires no control, in other words entirely autonomous, but most uses of Drone refer to remotely controlled vehicles, and quadcopters.

[Venezuelan]

I don't think there are many vehicles that require absolutely no input

[FunnyStarRunner]

[QUOTE=Kite_shugo;46122445]Amazon designers: "Uh alright, our job is to come up with something that[I] ISN'T[/I] SHOOTABLE looking; something that will do the opposite of entrap cold hard freedom in the form of bullets, any ideas?"

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(would you want to shoot this?)

I'm surprised he hit it with a shotgun from so far; unless it was a shotgun for skeet shooting[/QUOTE]

I can see people with big nets waiting to swipe at an Amazon drone just to steal whatever it's carrying.

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=Venezuelan;46132210]I don't think there are many vehicles that require absolutely no input[/QUOTE]
In regards to military drones where the term originates they just give them a few waypoints and the onboard computer flies itself, the operators can take control but 99% of the time its autonimus, the media however is quick to brand anything that flies without a pilot onboard as a drone

[Tmaxx]

Drone is a buzzword now, only used in a negative sense by the media.

Also, you do not own the airspace above your house. That neighbor can fly his heli above your house all day and night if he damn well pleases and there is nothing you can legally do except tell him not to. If he persists after that, then you can call the cops for harassment. "muh privacy" and "muh property" means nothing in this case.