So the other night around 8pm I had a neighbor ride is bike down the street and ask me if it's "my quadcopter" that I've been flying around. I told him yes thinking he thinks it's cool or something, but instead starts yelling at me telling me that if I ever fly anywhere near his home he's going to shoot it out of the sky. He said that I've been flying over his house, spying on him. First of all, I fly it around 350ft so it doesn't bother people, and second of all my brother and I fly at night so you can definitely see it and we definitely aren't "spying" on people. If you shoot my quadcopter outta the sky, get ready to have a felony on your record because you can't just discharge a firearm within city limits. The dude also told me that I've been flying directly in front of his window..Uhh I'm sorry but we fly at 350ft, he's like a half mile away maybe or less, and I definitely wouldn't be flying low near ANYONES home.
Anyways the police ended up coming and calming him down, we even showed him a night time video we did at 4th of July to show him that you can't get video at night time, but he said "you can put filters on that thing to make it daylight". The police told him there are no laws against flying a toy quadcopter around and there's not much they can do.
We told him that we won't fly "near" his house anymore, it's a block and that direction doesn't have trees so it's more of a clear view of the sky. I'm just annoyed with the dude. Why does he think that he's THAT important that anyone would want to spy on him? lol! With the Phantoms camera it's pretty impossible to spy on people, everything just looks like little tiny objects from that high in the sky. My rant!
Anyways the police ended up coming and calming him down, we even showed him a night time video we did at 4th of July to show him that you can't get video at night time, but he said "you can put filters on that thing to make it daylight". The police told him there are no laws against flying a toy quadcopter around and there's not much they can do.
We told him that we won't fly "near" his house anymore, it's a block and that direction doesn't have trees so it's more of a clear view of the sky. I'm just annoyed with the dude. Why does he think that he's THAT important that anyone would want to spy on him? lol! With the Phantoms camera it's pretty impossible to spy on people, everything just looks like little tiny objects from that high in the sky. My rant!