If this is the same case I read about earlier, the drone pilot was allegedly flying down into neighboring back yards at or below deck levels. That, is invasion of privacy! Shooting out of the air will get a fine. If the memory card didn't get trashed, the video will prove the case (assuming the pilot didn't ditch the card, since the drone was handed back to the pilot by police on site).
A few months ago I flew my P3 around the block where I live. A neighbor 2 blocks away came screaming up the block and tried to grab the controller from me. I called the cops as did he and the cops went to his place first to get his side of events. He told them I flew the drone down into his back yard about 7 feet off the ground and looked into the bedroom window of his daughters. Said his 2 daughters had just came out of the bath.
1. On this flight the drone NEVER went below 125' (+ or -) except when taking off and landing at my house.
2. His back yard is relative small (only maybe 25 feet (+ or -) from the back fence to the house and the entire back yard is heavily surrounded with tall trees.
3. I am a very novice inexperienced pilot and could have NEVER flown down anywhere near his back yard. I DON'T GET NEAR TREES rather I fly high above them ALWAYS and my entire neighborhood is very very heavily loaded with trees.
4. So the officer comes to my house and tells me his (the neighbor's) side of the story and how my drone was in his back yard 7' off the ground. He goes on to say "maybe you couldn't understand the person's concern because you don't have children". Well, I'm guessing that ANYONE could understand that NOBODY wants ANY drone outside their daughters' bedroom but I'm starting that the officer has made up his mind and that this guy is a friggin' nut and that the guy is outright lying.
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HERE IS THE PROBLEM THOUGH: I have the drone sitting on my kitchen counter and my laptop computer with the flight video loaded. I tell the sheriff that he can take a look of the ENTIRE flight (about 14-15 minutes ....... but get this: The sheriff refuses to look at the video or even any portion of it! He says "oh, those videos can be edited!" Yes, I try to explain flight logs and time frame and EVERYTHING that makes it almost impossible to alter the video and the flight log and that even if one could do that it's highly unlikely that they could do so in such a short time period. But the cop was not having to anything to do with looking at actual evidence because he was so smart and knew all about video editing.
So the cop left, no charges were filed and no follow-up events occurred but I'm only posting this to show how things can come down and how many perceive these drones. I'm 68 years old and as everyone knows, anybody over 65 with a drone is very likely to be a perv and not going to pull the wool over a knowledgeable police officers eyes. The whole event has resulted in my no longer flying in my neighborhood. It's a shame that I can only enjoy flying it in a wide open field far from civilization but like some of the mafia says "whadda ya gonna do?"