Colorado citizens considering a bounty for shooting down a drone.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...s-drone-bounty

Jist thought you'd like to know. :-)

On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 07:54:36 +0100, "harryagain"
wrote:

Colorado citizens considering a bounty for shooting down a drone.

So?!

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...s-drone-bounty

Jist thought you'd like to know. :-)


That should be an excellent way to hone your hand/eye coordination!

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...rs-drone-bount
y

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.
--
America is at that awkward stage. It's too late
to work within the system, but too early to shoot
the *******s."-- Claire Wolfe

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...rs-drone-bount
y

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.

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
unt
y

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

"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message news:F-

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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.

You can be arrested and prosecuted for even shining a bright laser at an
airplane. Let's have Gordon shoot down an FAA approved drone, especially a
military one, and tell us what happens. My hunch is the outcome will not be
good and it will very expensive since Predator drones retail for four
million dollars and up, depending on the "option package."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General..._MQ-1_Predator

More importantly, they are designed to absorb a significant amount of small
arms fire and still function. Maybe a Vulcan minigun could do the trick but
I don't see any listed on Ebay . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M61_Vulcan

--
Bobby G.
AHR - Home of great home repair advice and not so great real-world advice

"Gordon Shumway" wrote in message
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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...s-drone-bounty

Jist thought you'd like to know. :-)


That should be an excellent way to hone your hand/eye coordination!

What if the drone shoots back!!!!

"harryagain" wrote:
Colorado citizens considering a bounty for shooting down a drone.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...s-drone-bounty

Jist thought you'd like to know. :-)

It's not easy to shoot down drones. Low, they tend to go fast. High, well
you know.
I was in a drone battery in the army 70-71 . It was rare for a bunch of
vulcans, firing 100 rounds per second, to hit a target. On some demo's
someone would hit the Shute button, to make it look good.

Greg

Aww, Geez.

Now the NRA is gonna lobby for the legalization of Stinger antiaircraft missiles.
After all, the only protection against a crazy drone bent on doing harm is a citizenry well armed with modern surface to air missiles.

http://previous.presstv.ir/photo/201...3224023663.jpg
Jeb and Billy Bob bag an unmanned aerial reconnaisance vehicle on the first day of the hunting season. "I'm gonna take the tail in for the $100 bounty" said Jeb "and have the nose cone stuffed and hang it on my living room wall."

On 07-18-2013 02:54, harryagain wrote:
Colorado citizens considering a bounty for shooting down a drone.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...s-drone-bounty

Jist thought you'd like to know. :-)

Much as I dislike government (or anyone else) spying with drones, this
proposal is STUPID. How many cows, sheep, tractors, _people_ get shot
at during deer hunting season?

Anyone that thinks drone hunting season will fare better is INCREDIBLY
ignorant of what humans are like.

--
Wes Groleau

Words of the Wild Wes
http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW

In article ,
Wes Groleau wrote:

On 07-18-2013 02:54, harryagain wrote:
Colorado citizens considering a bounty for shooting down a drone.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...ers-drone-boun
ty

Jist thought you'd like to know. :-)

Much as I dislike government (or anyone else) spying with drones, this
proposal is STUPID. How many cows, sheep, tractors, _people_ get shot
at during deer hunting season?

Anyone that thinks drone hunting season will fare better is INCREDIBLY
ignorant of what humans are like.

Tom may have to change the song a little...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQyoSLOlglw
--
America is at that awkward stage. It's too late
to work within the system, but too early to shoot
the *******s."-- Claire Wolfe