paraviz02
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United States
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Yea, I've got at least one good one ... These people are idiots.
So, I took off one day, and the usual takeoff path is straight up, and then towards the corner of the property towards many acres of empty space.
This one particular time, I took off and another neighbor started talking to me over the fence. While we were talking, I had left our Inspire 2 hovering near the driveway of another neighbor who was arriving home from work.
He got out of his car, started yelling at me, saying that I was invading his privacy. We were only over his driveway, not even with our camera attached, in a location that we can see exactly the same from a drone as we can see from our bedroom window. Anyways, this bonehead came storming towards me yelling and we got into it.
He was claiming that we are recording his property, and invading his privacy. I told him we don't even have a camera attached to the drone. He came up to our back fence, yelling at me to come at him so we could fight. So I ran up the hill towards the back fence, and as I got closer, he kept backing further and further away.
(Mind you, he's a 240-lb plumber, looks very strong and tough. I'm about 125-lb on a heavy day, scrawny and pathetic as far as physical strength goes.)
He then accused me of lying (our X4S camera was actually at DJI for repairs, so I really wouldn't need to do much to prove him wrong) and proceeded to call the sheriff.
About 30 minutes later, we got a knock on our door, and a sheriff had arrived who had also spoken with other neighbors prior to coming to our house. One of the neighbors had told the sheriff that our drone is about 6' wide and is so loud that they can't even turn their TV volume up loud enough to hear.
And the jerk neighbor who started it all ... Well, no idea what his problem is, but he put his house on the market and I sure do hope that he gets it sold and gets the hey out of here. That dude is complete garbage.
I guess the moral of the story is that as long as there are people who are able to appreciate cutting-edge technology or other things that are new and "scary", there will always be cave people who have trouble understanding, and those cave people will always be ready for a fight.
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A second quick story ... On the second day we had our Inspire 2, we took off same as previously mentioned, except this time we didn't start talking to a neighbor and hover over someone's driveway. This time, we took off and headed to our usual empty field. One neighbor texted asking if that was our drone, I said yes, and then sent them the video from our flight. (Since there was absolutely nothing to hide.)
They took the video, and shared it with other people, explaining how these drones have no problem seeing in our bedroom windows and invading our privacy ... My goodness, these people couldn't possibly get any more ignorant.
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Aside from all that, I love being able to pilot a UAS. It is extremely liberating, and I absolutely love it. Then there's the wagon-full of complete idiots that are so ignorant they don't even know what color the sky is. Trying to get the city council to pass laws prohibiting just about everything regarding drones.
Well ok, I'll just go register ours as a commercial UAS, and then (since, in America, businesses have more human rights than humans do) I'll be just fine. |
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