In article ,
Gordon Shumway wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:02:54 -0400, Kurt Ullman
wrote:
In article ,
Gordon Shumway wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 07:54:36 +0100, "harryagain"
wrote:
Colorado citizens considering a bounty for shooting down a drone.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...nders-drone-bo
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Jist thought you'd like to know. :-)
That should be an excellent way to hone your hand/eye coordination!
And most likely get arrested for any number of federal violations let
alone getting sued for the damages to the drone.
Not all drones are operated by the feds. Some are privately owned.
The privately owned drones may be fair game over your property even
without the law.
My guess is it would not make any difference since they are operating
under the authority of the FAA and subject to them. Thus you have
limited airspace where they can operate. I don't know of any reason you
could destroy someone else's property.
It is well established that the FAA has sole jurisdiction over the
airways in the US and has exclusive authorization on the use of the
airways. It also has already stated that it is taking that jurisdiction
over drones of any an all kinds.
the Supreme Court has recognized that a landowner had property
rights in the lower reaches of the airspace above their property. The
law, in balancing the public interest in using the airspace for air
navigation against the landowner's rights, declared that a landowner
owns only so much of the airspace above their property as they may
reasonably use in connection with their enjoyment of the underlying
land. In other words, a person's real property ownership includes a
reasonable amount of the airspace above the property.
But they also went on to say that a landowner can't arbitrarily try
to prevent aircraft from overflying their land by erecting "spite
poles," for example. While probably not exactly on point, it would tend
to make the argument that you also couldn't shoot down drones.
--
America is at that awkward stage. It's too late
to work within the system, but too early to shoot
the *******s."-- Claire Wolfe