Drone hovering over my garden for ages

[Phimosa]

A huge black thing. Garden very secluded and I’m in my bikini. This is the 3rd time this weekend.

It’s bloody creepy, AIBU to go find the air gun and shoot the fucker out of the sky. Or find the pervert flying it and shoot him instead

I think that next time it comes over your garden needs watering

or - get a spear --

i would definitely spray hose the fucker down. I wouldn't pretend I was watering the garden.

Ten thirty and you are in your bikini. Are you in the UK? 😱

I would square up to it with the hose turned on full. Give it a few warning squirts either side - that should get rid of it. If that doesn't work and you have to blast it out of the sky, take its soggy, crashed remains and leave them out in the street.

They can't be flown within 50m of a building or 150m of a built up area. Given that it is above her house then it is within range and illegal. If a camera is fitted.
It is a defence in law to criminally damage something in order to prevent a crime.

Go and get your gun OP!

We have an air rifle and I would shoot it. anyone challenges it I would say I was worried about being burgled. I would definitely hold up a warning notice where they can read it " reported to the police, stop doing this" and if they carry on then either nerf it or shoot it.

its beyond pervy - peeping tom taken to a whole new level. Paedophiles over parks have a field day with them, its horrible. if its over my land then I feel justified in shooting it. it would be different in a public area but I am not overlooked by neighbours and wouldn't want to be.

I really don't get why these things have been sold to the public. They were always going to be misused by thieving bastards and perverted bastards. And how long before someone uses one to mess with aeroplanes or fly explosives or something terror related into a building... it's not beyond the realm of possibility (much as I hate to sound like the daily fail)

Just HOW are these things legal ? Really creepy that they are so easily used to spy on people and properties. I would shoot or hose it down. About time they were banned for public use.

Ten thirty and you are in your bikini. Are you in the UK ?

It’s too hot in my south facing garden in London to sit out this morning unless right in the shade and my laundry is drying very quickly, so I can quite believe that the OP is in her bikini. ( Teeshirt and shorts for me)

I’m in the NW and my garden is a sun trap making it 23c already and it will keep climbing, so whilst I’m not in a bikini I can see why OP is.

Re the drone, I’d have a “nerf battle” in the garden (get others involved so if caught on the drone camera you have a excuse) and shoot it.

I’d also film it, stating during recording the approx distance from your house, along with the time and date.

Do you have a local Facebook page for your village? It’s worth asking if anyone else is having the same issues.

Go get the airgun Op - time for some target practice.

It seems to be a lengthy and challenging matter to go through due process of preventing the drone from tresspass (i.e. within 50m of you or your property). Practically, disabling the drone using paint or water (i.e. less obvious that its deliberate) seems the only practical way forward (unless you can find out who owns the drone). Then its back in the court of the drone owner. Would assume that any claim for criminal damage would (a) be questionable becuase you could argue "accidental" for something that was tresspassing and (b) be dliuted - the drone owner has contributed by tresspassing in the first place so must take some / all responsibility for damage being caused. Additionally, of course, if action was taken against you there is the counter-suit for tresspass and distress caused andpublic opinion being on your side.

I'd go with a pressure washer, rather than a supersoaker. Knock that fucker out of the sky.

We live near a motorway, and my neighbour had a drone. One day, he was flying it above the motorway, when due to a fault, he lost control of it and it dropped down. Luckily, it landed on the hard shoulder. I dread to think what carnage it could have caused if it had been just a few feet further in.
He got rid of it after that.

Is it definitely one with a camera? It might just be a kids toy...

I might just be clutching at straws though!

It’s not a little toy one, it’s a big black one, looks expensive

It hasn’t come back yet, maybe the owner is a MNer

Hosepipe should do the trick

I really hate these things. Walking at a country park a few months back and a group were flying one. They weren’t good at it and much to close to other people. We walked past very fast as this thing kept flying over our heads.

Was also in my local news a couple years back that drones were being used to drop stuff over the prison wall!

I would definitely want to shoot this Percy fuckers drone down. Anyone got a pressure washer you can borrow?

Pervy not Percy...stupid autocorrect.

Yep - hose it.

And creepy about the Croydon cat killer :(

It's 150m not 50m if the drone has a camera (which all the large ones do)

This is not ok. Soak it with a hose!

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