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Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Re: Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Post by biomcgary »

tjohns wrote: post #77
SoftTalker wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When do you differentiate between a toy and a UAV?

The FAA has lighter regulation for drones under 250g, for this reason. But even then, small toy drones of any size are still regulated by the FAA.

Sometimes (often?) technical legal definitions considered without context lead to absurd conclusions that don't manifest in practice.

Does the FAA have jurisdiction over paper planes? What about the airspace in my house and does it matter if the doors are open?

On the other hand, I don't think government agencies have much incentive to preemptively limit the scope of their authority, but would be happy to hear of counter-examples.

Re: Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Post by neuroelectron »

dyauspitr wrote: post #94
neepi wrote: post #11

Clearly the solution is to obtain anti delivery drone drones and bag all the free stuff that falls out of the sky into your property.

With all the money behind it that’s probably going to a criminally punished similar to hijacking a goods truck n the highway.

Yes but not yet

Re: Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Post by thebitstick »

throw933884 wrote: post #42
tjohns wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what it's worth, shooting at aircraft (including drones) is a federal offense, and the FAA takes that one pretty seriously. Drones also have cameras.

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Me when I lie

Re: Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Post by bilbo0s »

dyauspitr wrote: post #94
neepi wrote: post #11

Clearly the solution is to obtain anti delivery drone drones and bag all the free stuff that falls out of the sky into your property.

With all the money behind it that’s probably going to a criminally punished similar to hijacking a goods truck n the highway.

What will be legal is to simply sue the owner of the drone for breaking your window when your neighbor shot it down. Let the owner and the neighbor sort it out if the owner can prove the neighbor shot it down. But until that proof is forthcoming, the owner is liable. Same as any plane crash. Oh, and Heaven help the owner if any humans or pets in the house are injured.

After a while, that will get so expensive that either they will stop using drones to deliver, or drone design will improve to the point that they become almost impossible to bring down.

Either way, hey, gets rid of the problem of drones dropping on your property.

Re: Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Post by nostrademons »

adolph wrote: post #90
Balgair wrote: post #80

Aside: It's going to be a great time when the crows, raccoons, and other semi-intelligent wildlife discover that these drones have food in them at seemingly random reward schedules. Sure, you can give the drones little tasers to keep the animals away, depending on your locality. But knowing what I know about bears and crows, almost nothing is going to stop them. Especially when some influencer jerk tries tempting a b…

I can definitely see a future time when small autonomous air vehicles start to have problems with the local wildlife, either from the thick flocks of grackles in winter or from the more mischievous neighborhood corvids.

Friend of mine recorded this video 10 years ago:

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

Re: Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Post by zelphirkalt »

softg wrote: post #64
zelphirkalt wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well,not my country, but I think it is quite a silly and too general rule: What if 10 neighbors collude and start flying drones over my garden and house, only a few meters above ground or my roof, 24/7? What if one of their drones crashes without my doing and hurts _me_? So the actual rules need to be more nuanced than this, to prevent people doing crazy shit with their tech gadgets hurting others. They cannot be giv…

at that point you could just buy cheap drones yourself and ram those into your neighbor's (oops)

Doesn't really sound like a viable solution, as the 10 neighbors have on average 10 times the amount of cash to throw at it.

Re: Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

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Post by FireBeyond »

Enginerrrd wrote: post #43
Pet_Ant wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bullets fall down and can be deadly, so anyone doing so should at least be prosecuted for reckless endangerment if not assault with a deadly weapon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire

Most people seriously looking to shoot down a drone would be using a shotgun and bird shot, so that's essentially a non-issue.

Too many people think they're some Scout Sniper for it to be a non-issue.
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