To be concerned about drone catching images of my children in paddling pool

[Slightlygiganticpants]

Last night whilst my dc were playing in the garden, (which is completely private and in a rural location, we have about 3 neighbours) a drone flew over several times. The dc were playing in the paddling pool at this time in various states of undress.

My dh got the children in and I went in search of the drone operator. Located him and started filming him with my phone. He was on the other side of the river from my house. He disliked my filming of him and we became engaged in a fairly heated debate with me calling him a pervert and possibly a peadophile. Apparently what he was doing was completely legal (I believe drone was less than 50 meters from us but that is up for debate) and he wasn't filming the dc. He did also phone the police after I left and then came around and spoke to my dh.

I have looked into this since and have found out that this is legal! How? Surely this can't be right? Surely we have a right to privacy in our own garden!

There is no violence

There is no disturbance of the peace

People are talking about getting "men" round to thump him?

The police wouldn’t do a thing
I think you will find I didn't say they would.

Deformation of character 😂😂😂.

I'd love to see how on earth anyone could defend that charge in front of magistrates..

'what were you doing sir'

I was just minding my own business flying a drone over the only house in the vicinity, minding my own business m'lad, flying it over when some kids were in the the pool.
She came charging out spoiling the peace and quiet like... Calling me nasty names. '

Well, if anyone dares to fly them in our garden.. Pressure washer will be at them.

What law is broken

Defamation of character

That's a civil law

I know

the police wouldn't do anything

I know

I tihnk maybe you've lost your point somewhere?

She came charging out spoiling the peace and quiet like... Calling me nasty names.

The question is what was broken, not if it would get to court.

Good so far we all have agree that's its totally unacceptable to fly any object into anyone's House, garden or personal space!! Filming or not

in short there ARE LAWS against calling people names.

Slander wouldn’t get to magistrates as it’s a civil matter and that man isn’t going to spend tens or hundreds of thousands suing OP.

Captain give it up, There is no legal consequence from calling the bloke a pervert. I don’t know what you’re trying to achieve pretending there is

Good so far we all have agree that's its totally unacceptable to fly any object into anyone's House

It's taken you a very long time to realise that.

WHAT LAWS

There is no legal consequence from calling the bloke a pervert. I don’t know what you’re trying to achieve pretending there is

???????

I'm not pretending there is anything, i've answered your original question and you are now pretending you meant something else?

WHAT LAWS

civil laws
why are you bringing the police and the Magistrate into it?

You said it’s against the law. What law?

Civil laws have to be proven. You can’t go around saying that OP has broken one, you’re utterly clueless as to whether she has.

Very said she’d go to the police if someone called her a pervert. A poster above referred to magistrates

I live rurally and I'd wouldn't be bothered talking to him, to be honest. I'd probably get a rifle and shoot the fucking thing down. (Don't live in the UK before anyone gets antsy). I value my privacy as far as I reasonably can without every local pervert thinking they can film you at close quarters.

poster: it's a good job MEN didn't find out, they'd kill him (paraphrased)
They'd be breaking the law
This wasn't even a reply to you.
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I think you can call people whatever you like !!

No you can't.

Bert, not very

Civil laws have to be proven. You can’t go around saying that OP has broken one, you’re utterly clueless as to whether she has.

In this case she video herself doing it.

But we are not talking about the OP are we, we are talking about hyperthetical "people".

Captain you are the one who posted you “cant go around calling people whatever you like”

You don’t seem to be able to explain why you can’t call people whatever you like. I suspect you think/ thought that somehow the CPS could prosecute you for calling someone a paedophile, and now you’re back peddling

The video is not evidence. You have to prove a lot more than that to sucessfully sue someone for slander. It’s not a case of whether or not it happened

No you're getting me confused with bert

My reply was to this:
Alicatz66 Thu 05-Jul-18 15:51:32
I think you can call people whatever you like !!

and you can't call people whatever you like as there are laws.

But you can call people what you like 😭

You don’t seem to be able to explain why you can’t call people whatever you like.

Slander
Defamation of character
In some circumstances discrimination

But you can call people what you like

You can't discrimination is a crime.