I remember that story, at my R/C club we talked quite a bit about it, and how all of us felt the guy was within his rights to blast that quad.
The prosecutors question- "you allowed it to hover over other peoples property"? WTH? What does that have to do with HIM shooting it when it was over HIS house? Is he supposed to protect the other peoples homes, is that what the prosecutor was saying? Was he doing something wrong by NOT shooting at it when over someone else's place, and only his own? Strange.
They also tried to make hay about it being "too high", but the cameras these days have this little feature called ZOOM, maybe the prosecutor has heard of it before...man talk about trying to make up stupid arguments to make your charges stick, she should be disbarred IMO.
Good judge, they still exist it seems. Plus it seems this guy spied on his daughter in the pool SIX different times...IMO the drone pilot is lucky it was just his drone that took rounds.
Flying these things is fun, especially with remote cameras/FPV, but using them to spy on people is very lame, and flying into the airspace low ever somebodies home, camera or not, is not only an invasion, its dangerous, even small rotors and falling machines can hurt people, especially small kids.
