Kentucky man shoots down drone hovering over his backyard

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38. I have to say that if it was my backyard I would want to do the same, Or at least capture the drone.

Invasion of privacy is just that. Put your drone in my space absent my permission and you just lost it. If Google has no right to read my network why does a drone pilot have the right to examine my back yard on a whim? How do I determine the drone's ownership or intent?

How would you react to a person walking through your back yard uninvited and unannounced?
Would you assume a threat? Would you ask them to leave? Would you call your lawyer and sue?

How do we make clear to people with no appropriate sense of boundaries that they do indeed apply? What level of response would you like to suggest?

Or do we now need to not only fence our property but also cover them with bird nets to make specific our desire to be unmolested in our own homes?

How do I know the drone owner is a benign user as opposed to someone with hostile intent? I don't need to have a 12 gauge answer but I do require civil behavior. One of the aspects of revenge porn is the hateful desire to ridicule and violate. How many of you recall school yard humiliation? Imagine a candid and essentially innocent video of your back yard comfort presented out of context along the lines of the current Planned Parenthood attacks.

I should add that I live on a flight path for low level military aircraft training. When a V-22 Osprey goes over at 600 feet the whole house shakes, never mind the low level jets. We are in a small neighborhood where the farms meet the houses. The encounter of hunter versus drone is a real possibility out here. I think guns have only 2 purposes. I don't hunt and have no tolerance for ammunition addicted wannabees.