Do I let new neighbour know they’ve made the village page?!

[Fedup2910]

I’ve recently moved, where I used to live had new tenants over the weekend.
Walked past there Saturday and noticed they were flying a drone (took off from the garden so I know it belongs to them), it was obviously out again this morning as people are complaining/ want to contact police etc.

I have some bits I took with me by mistake when we moved (appliance manuals) which I need to drop over- whilst I’m there do I mention people are kicking off about the drone flying on the village FB page or keep out of it?

We all reported it to the police. They took it seriously and dealt with it.

I would let them know because I would want someone to let me know.

I think you should tell them. Regardless of your feelings about drones and if you want to share them.

Sunbathing topless in your secluded garden, kids scampering about naked in paddling pool, yeah sure let some person you don't know film you.

Would you be happy if a neighbour stuck their camera on a selfie stick over your fence to get a good nosey at you?

Say nowt! No longer your home…….no longer any of your business.

I'd be tempted to get the shotgun out if a drone came over my garden.

I would tell them. They should know they are getting on to a bad start with the village.

Absolutely do not mention it. Mind your own business.

How do you know whether they are obeying the law or not? Surely you would need to know the drone, what regulatory hoops they have been through, where they are taking off, where they are flying and what permissions they have (if indeed any are needed)?

were they real rules or "this is what we all do"?

I'd be tempted to shoot your car if you parked outside my house, but I wouldn't, because criminal damage is wrong.

Presumably he was arrested for harassment or voyeurism or somesuch, and could have been done whether he was using a camera or a video recorder or a drone to look in windows and take images? He was not, I suspect, arrested simply for flying a drone in the airspace that is above the private property and controlled by the CAA not the landowner?

Flying a drone over people's gardens is the behaviour of a complete berk and/or peeping weirdo, in my opinion. If someone flew one over my garden I'd be aiming a BB gun at it.

I don't know if I'd tell the new neighbour they were being slagged off on the Facebook page, but I might be inclined to tell the users of the Facebook page who the drone belonged to...

I don't know the law exactly on drones but I am 99% sure that for under 250g drones -

It is legal to fly over people's gardens unless there is a crowd of people there or it is in a CAA no fly zone. (A 20 person barbecue in a big garden is not a crowd)

It is illegal to damage other people's private properly, such as shooting a drone. Criminal damage (and worse if the hit drone then falls and hits a person or other property)

If someone were to fly repeatedly over your garden, especially at low height, or use the drone for voyeuristic purposes or to hover around your windows they could potentially be done for harassment or voyeurism.

Do you shoot at aeroplanes that fly over your property, by the way?

Do you realise that people are not so much "flying over your garden" as "using the airspace which is controlled by the CAA and not the landowner"?

How would you feel if I thought that parking on single yellow lines in the evening was "the behaviour of a complete berk and/or peeping weirdo, in my opinion" and keyed your car as revenge? That is effectively what you are saying you would do - respond to legal activity you don't like with criminal damage.

I really don’t think any drone with a camera should be allowed over residential properties/their gardens. As mentioned by others people should be able to sunbathe, have kids play naked in paddling pools etc within the privacy of their own boundaries.

Oh FFS, of course I wouldn't shoot at a drone with a BB gun. I don't even own a fucking BB gun and I doubt I could hit a barn door with it if I did. It was a bloody joke!

I still think people who fly drones over their neighbours' gardens are berks, though. Something doesn't have to be illegal to be obnoxious - plenty of annoying, intrusive things aren't illegal, but that doesn't make them any less twattish or inconsiderate.

And a low-flying camera drone hovering over someone's garden while their kids are in the paddling pool really isn't equivalent to a plane (and I speak as someone who grew up in the flight path from Stansted). So while you legally can fly a drone over someone's garden - just like you legally can stare at them from your bedroom window with binoculars - I continue to believe that you shouldn't.

The difference is that aeroplanes don't usually record you in your property.

People parking badly are not invading my privacy either. At worst they block my car - and that's another issue - but there's no risk of photos of my kids ending up god knows where.

So of course no one should shoot at anything, it's dangerous for people around for a start. But what a shame if someone was cleaning a BB gun and wasn't careful on handling them...

Drones aren’t supposed to be flown within 50m of residential buildings. I bloody hate them.

This is a good idea.

Not all drones have cameras… some are just flying toys.

Agreed. But from an external viewpoint, since the cameras can be so tiny these days it is pretty much impossible to know which ones have cameras and which ones don't. Especially since the drone might be a fair distance away.

It's a weird loophole if it is illegal to take something out of the immediate vicinity of the air on your land - if the neighbour's tree overhangs into my airspace I am allowed to cut the branches that do...

Agreed also. I suppose not everyone’s intentions are bad too, so the police comments are a tad extreme.

I often see local posters complaining about specific houses and I just think… bloody go over, knock and tell them 😂

register-drones.caa.co.uk/drone-code/the_drone_code.pdf