invasion of privacy or within the law?

shoes

Well-Known Forumite
What area do you live in?

As for cost, I say **** them! Surely they'd have to prove they were there legally first? And if they can't see the UAV, then they are acting illegally. Besides which, if its pointing at someone else at the time they wont see who hit it, perhaps you should keep it distracted while someone else creeps up behind it with a cricket bat? ;)


This is a fair point, if you can take it down out sight of its own camera and then bury it, who can prove you had anything to do with it at all?
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
If you see one of these ones, then you're on your own - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Rotorcraft_Sniper_System

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..you might more than a cricket bat..
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Just a thought, but if it is a live feed one you can easily blind it. Any powerful light source will throw out the automatic balancing of the picture, slightly more tricky but a laser pen will work too.
 

peggy

Well-Known Forumite
Well I have found who and spoken to owners parents who confirmed it belonged to their son, he apparently makes them from scratch and went on to tell me he puts certain technology on board so would know exactly how far from buildings it was etc , was it bothering me? Erm, yup! I have every faith he will speak with young man in question and hopefully that will be an end to it!! Thankyou all.
 

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
Awakening an old thread here I know, but if anyone sees a white one around coton fields then please don't try to disable it, I certainly wont be spying on anyone with it. The chances are you'll never see it near your gardens, and if you do I might just be deliberately losing it to test it's own GPS navigation system that should auto-pilot it back to me.
It's arriving tomorrow and I'm like a kid at Christmas!! :)
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Awakening an old thread here I know, but if anyone sees a white one around coton fields then please don't try to disable it, I certainly wont be spying on anyone with it. The chances are you'll never see it near your gardens, and if you do I might just be deliberately losing it to test it's own GPS navigation system that should auto-pilot it back to me.
It's arriving tomorrow and I'm like a kid at Christmas!! :)
Excellent, I need to air-rifle target practice. Will be along to 'spectate' :D
 

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
That fireworks one is superb. What a risk to take though with potentially a couple of grands worth of equipment!
 

age'd parent

50,000th poster!
Awakening an old thread here I know, but if anyone sees a white one around coton fields then please don't try to disable it, I certainly wont be spying on anyone with it. The chances are you'll never see it near your gardens, and if you do I might just be deliberately losing it to test it's own GPS navigation system that should auto-pilot it back to me.
It's arriving tomorrow and I'm like a kid at Christmas!! :)

I don't mind if you see me when I sunbathe naked in my garden. :heyhey:
Though it might put you off drones for life!
 

Maryland

Well-Known Forumite
I'd make sure you tell the police about this, and give them dates and times, take photographs of it showing how close it's going to your house, especially if as you say it's 'opposite your bedroom window', and also tell them about who you think it is. It's causing a nuisance, which is one count on which you might if you wanted bring a civil action, but if this individual is photographing the inside of your house, which seems possible, there are any number of unpleasant motivations which would be of interest to the police. At the very least, they should undertake to go round and have a word.

I'd be wary of trying to damage it. That would be criminal damage and if it's got a camera it wouldn't be hard to prove who dunnit. Depending on how well you get on with the person you suspect, it might be worth having a friendly word yourself and pointing out that you don't appreciate having your privacy destroyed. This might be enough: the person may be no more than a bit of a geek who doesn't quite understand other people too well. Or it might be a young person who ditto. If that doesn't work, then make sure the police are aware and keep a record.

Which part of stafford is this happening in?
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I'd make sure you tell the police about this,

The original post is from eighteen months ago. I don't think that that problem is still ongoing, but the availability of these devices will make the issue rather more generalised, I feel.
 

Maryland

Well-Known Forumite
The original post is from eighteen months ago. I don't think that that problem is still ongoing, but the availability of these devices will make the issue rather more generalised, I feel.

Thanks for pointing that out. Entirely my fault: I've only just found this forum and am so pleased to discover Stafford folk discussing local stuff in a reasonably sensible manner that I've come over all garrulous. It'll pass.
 

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
We're a nice bunch of folk Maryland, but we all have our off days ;)
(in fact I had an off 3 months once)

Welcome to the forum though :)
 
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