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标题: [新闻] 美国男子打下入侵自家后院领空的无人机
时间: Thu Jul 30 23:18:04 2015
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美国肯德基州男子用枪打下盘旋在自家后院的无人机
Kentucky man shoots down drone hovering over his backyard
msn.com
The way William Merideth sees it, it’s pretty clear-cut: a drone flying over
his backyard was a well-defined invasion of privacy, analogous to a physical
trespassing.
Not knowing who owned it, the Kentucky man took out his shotgun and fired
three blasts of Number 8 birdshot to take the drone out.
"It was just right there," he told Ars. "It was hovering, I would never have
shot it if it was flying. When he came down with a video camera right over my
back deck, that's not going to work. I know they're neat little vehicles, but
one of those uses shouldn’t be flying into people's yards and videotaping."
Minutes later, a car full of four men that he didn’t recognize rolled up,
"looking for a fight."
"Are you the son of a b***h that shot my drone?" one said, according to
Merideth.
His terse reply to the men, while wearing a 10mm Glock holstered on his hip:
"If you cross that sidewalk onto my property, there’s going to be another
shooting."
The men backed down, retreated to their car, and waited for the police to
arrive.
"His only comment was that he hoped I had a big checkbook because his drone
cost $1,800," Merideth added.
The Kentuckian was arrested Sunday evening in Hillview, Kentucky, just south
of Louisville and charged with criminal mischief and wanton endangerment. He
was released the following day. The Hillview Police Department did not
immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment.
A measured approach?
The report of the downed drone comes a month after Ars reported on a similar
incident in Modesto, California. But in that case, the drone operator was
flying his drone over his parents’ farm, and it was shot down by a neighbor.
Here, Merideth, who operates a local trucking company, said that he had seen
"two or three" different drones in his backyard previously over the last year
and was disturbed by their presence. "What recourse do we have?" he asked.
The 43-year-old man claimed that law enforcement officials, including the
county jailer, told him privately that they agreed with his actions. "The
people that own the drones and the people that hate guns are the only ones
that disagree with what I did," he said. "Now, if I’d have had a .22 rifle,
I should have gone to jail for that. The diameter of those things are going
to come down with enough force to hurt somebody. Number 8 birdshot is not.
Number 8 is the size of a pinhead. The bottom line is that it's a right to
privacy issue and defending my property issue. It would have been no
different had he been standing in my backyard. As Americans, we have a right
to defend our rights and property."
So what’s next in this bizarre tale?
"We have a lawyer and there's a court date and then there's going to be a
hearing," Merideth said. "It's not going to stop with the two charges against
me, which I'm confident that we'll get reduced or get dismissed completely."
And what would Merideth like to tell this errant drone operator when he meets
him again?
"I would just like [him] to get some education on his toy and learn to
respect the rights of the people," he said. "It's fine and dandy, and I think
it's cool there's a camera on it, but just take it to a park or something—
he's not a responsible drone owner."
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