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Abu to be incredibly angry about a drone flying over my garden??

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Splandy · 14/07/2016 21:25

I have seen a drone flying over mine and my neighbours gardens for the past six months or so. Found it mildly annoying but it was a fair distance from my windows so didn't think about it too much. I could hear it tonight when i was in my garden. Looked around for it and it 'saw' me, so clearly has a camera attached. It stopped whizzing around and hovered above me, below the roof of my house, watching me. I am so fucking angry right now. Both rooms facing onto the garden have patio doors, so this person could potentially be watching me in my own home.

I called the police and they gave me an appointment for Monday. Yeah have since called back telling me that there isn't an offence being committed, so the appointment will be cancelled and the neighbourhood team may contact me instead. But may not. I told him that I'd easily found information online stating that a drone cannot be flown within 50 metres of a person, which it definitely was, but it made no difference. What if it had crashed into my house, which it was incredibly close to? What if it crashed into me?? I also believe I have a right to privacy on my own property. Made no difference, appointment cancelled. Am I supposed to just accept being fucking spied on in my own home and garden? I don't even open the blinds in my kitchen because i value my privacy and can easily be seen there, but have to accept that somebody can film me and my kids???

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DoublyTroubly · 31/07/2017 07:11

Crap. ZOMBIE THREAD

Ijustwantaquietlife · 31/07/2017 08:57

Zombie but the histeria around zones in the UK is pretty unwarranted. If it can see you it will be as loud as a hedge trimmer. If it's an advanced one then the software it uses will allow it to be traced.

It won't have that long of a flight time and you can follow it back to where it came from and get the police to deal with it.

People were going crazy over camera phones 15 years ago

Hudson10 · 31/07/2017 09:16

People were going crazy over camera phones 15 years ago

That's hardly comparable if drones can look through your windows though, is it? Don't know how many mobile phones that can fly up to your window and peek through!

justilou1 · 31/07/2017 09:19

Don't you wish you had a giant bullwhip a-la Indiana Jones? That would be so satisfying!!!

SimpleCreature · 31/07/2017 09:30

They link to their remote control by wifi which is usually completely insecure, so you can actually hack them and take control of them smashing them into the ground gently moving them away from your property.

TheFaerieQueene · 31/07/2017 09:54

Can you and/or your husband take up dressing up and wear police uniforms in the house and linger near windows. It might just be enough to scare off the offending bastard and be fun too!

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