I have to tell this story, because I'm sure it's happened to other people. Yesterday, I was flying over the same pond I always fly over, two blocks away from where I live. I'm getting ready to land, in this large woman with a dog, and w some badge around her neck, starts yelling at that I'm breaking the law, and spying on people. Then she proceeds to film me while I'm landing. I tell her "you are ignorant on drone laws, do some research, I have every right to be here, and you have no right to film me." She kept going on, and on. So I left, thinking I'd come back later, and that she would be gone.
Well, an hour later she was there, and a friend of mine was there with his p4 trying to fly as well. I asked him "is she harassing you too?" She then claimed that she was a cop, and my friend says "let me get your badge number, so I can call it in." You could then see her getting nervous after he asked this, so she tries to start her car, and it's not starting. My friend was like "I have your license plate", and she was like "this is not my car." I said "you're a cop, but don't have your own car. You're using someone else's car that won't even start."
My friend called the local police, saying that we have someone impersonating a police officer. She then says that she is from the Fraternal order of police, and starts apologizing. Not a real cop. Totally misrepresenting herself.
She then decides to call a state Marshall that is a friend of her's. He immediately has this look on his face, like WTF is my crazy friend doing bothering these guys. We basically left at that point, with the marshall telling his fake police friend that she was wrong.
It's just amazing how aggressive some people (mainly fat, lonely women with dogs) can be towards drones. I was simply flying over water within LOS. Not breaking any laws. This woman claimed I was spying on people. I tried showing her the videos, and she would not even look at them. This woman was wacko, much in the same way of that kid that got beat up at a beach in CT a few years ago.
Well, an hour later she was there, and a friend of mine was there with his p4 trying to fly as well. I asked him "is she harassing you too?" She then claimed that she was a cop, and my friend says "let me get your badge number, so I can call it in." You could then see her getting nervous after he asked this, so she tries to start her car, and it's not starting. My friend was like "I have your license plate", and she was like "this is not my car." I said "you're a cop, but don't have your own car. You're using someone else's car that won't even start."
My friend called the local police, saying that we have someone impersonating a police officer. She then says that she is from the Fraternal order of police, and starts apologizing. Not a real cop. Totally misrepresenting herself.
She then decides to call a state Marshall that is a friend of her's. He immediately has this look on his face, like WTF is my crazy friend doing bothering these guys. We basically left at that point, with the marshall telling his fake police friend that she was wrong.
It's just amazing how aggressive some people (mainly fat, lonely women with dogs) can be towards drones. I was simply flying over water within LOS. Not breaking any laws. This woman claimed I was spying on people. I tried showing her the videos, and she would not even look at them. This woman was wacko, much in the same way of that kid that got beat up at a beach in CT a few years ago.
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