The noise that a drone makes – four tiny plastic propellers – does not destroy anyone’s life.
Sorry, I just don’t see how legally operating a drone in a public space is analogous to attacking someone. I also see no evidence that this gentleman was suffering from migraines or attempted less drastic measures to get the drone operators to move elsewhere. If it was truly causing him distress he could have simply explained that and asked them to move.
Again, would you defend that man’s actions if he had smashed a kid’s RC car that was making a comparable amount of noise on a public street? Seems like a dick move anyway you slice it.
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Yes, because when you tell people that their actions are hurting you, they don’t hurt you harder and harass you.
Did you just argue that dialogue is absolutely impossible and the only viable solution to conflict is aggression and violence? That’s hard core!
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Be glad you don’t live in an amphibian-enriched area. You wouldn’t believe how big noise can be packed into such a small frog.
No, I argued that this society shits on people when they’re down.
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So to be clear: you’d vote “yes” on the smashing the kid’s RC car without warning because if you asked them to stop to stop they might not? That seems like a rather horrible way to behave.
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Are you sure you don’t just spend too much time around places like 4chan or reddit? I’m pretty sure if that guy had left it at the verbal threat not to fly over his house, they probably wouldn’t have flown it over his house!
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No, I personally wouldn’t, but I would understand.
[P.S. Although the kid probably wouldn’t be strong enough to beat him up for complaining about the noise, so the guy could complain in safety.]
I get beaten up, with sensory bombardment, all the fucking time. I am in intense pain, all the fucking time. I am incapacitated much of the time. I am fucking sick of a society which does this.
Yeah, maybe. I think one could probably take out a windshield from even 6-10’, particularly if it sped up due to operator error or some signal glitch. Or a door panel – which would cost quite a few hundred in order to make the owner whole. My RAV4 was rear-ended about 12 months ago; I’m exquisitely familiar with the costs of body repair.
I don’t mind the things particularly. However, as they’ve been adopted for recreational use, they’ve become a bit of a nuisance. They are heavier, more powerful and have more capabilities than plastic toys, yet the user community seems far less inclined to adhere to common sense usage guidelines than the remote-control toy community.
The old drunk went out of his way to attack the thing, and if he’s mentally competent is probably liable for damages. However, who the hell uses a public street to calibrate and practice with an instrument of this kind?
I’d pretty much call this a draw. The droners (dr-owners?) took a risk using their fancy gadget in the street, where they weren’t in control of the environment. And the environment, in the person of an irritated stranger spoiled their fun.
If the drone had crossed into Shirtless’ yard he’d definitely have been within his rights to clobber it. If he had crossed into private property to pursue it, he’d be in the wrong.
I like whizzy flying electrical things, but seriously don’t do that in the street. If you can afford $1K35 for this device you can afford to drive it somewhere away from peeved strangers.
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A friend of mine has this little retreat cabin in the woods next to a pond that has been absolutely packed with frogs and bullfrogs which could really raise a ruckus! About a week ago this heron showed up and in a single night out of the annals of some book of frog horror stories reduced their population down to maybe four or five dutifully cautious survivors…
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We need to not pander to irrational, violent, criminals smashing everything over irrational fears and angers. That is a mentality we desperately need to stop cultivating.
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I would actually, as regards to UAVs. Black Rock City runs a tight ship. They are very tech savvy, and I’ve been thoroughly impressed by their operations crew. UAVs have been visible there the last few years I’ve attended and they are not intrusive when flown in accordance with their protocols.
I think BM has about the best rough guidelines out there for UAV use in crowded, public places.
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Of course, there’s the whole perception that people with neurological differences, or with mental illnesses, are violent and dangerous… and should be “put down.”
That, too, is a mentality we desperately need to stop cultivating.
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That would, of course, be a straw man representation of my point and not in any way related to my actual argument.
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But your defense of the man’s actions seems to be based entirely on hypotheticals.
- MAYBE the sound of the drone is what was bothering him (though he didn’t indicate this).
- MAYBE he suffered from migraines (though he didn’t indicate this either).
- MAYBE if he’d politely asked them to move elsewhere they would have ignored him or even gone out of their way to purposely antagonize him. (No evidence of this so far, but who can say?)
- MAYBE he was driven mad by a world which constantly bombarded him with excess sensory input and kicked him while he was down, pushing him into a downward spiral of violence and alcohol abuse.
Or maybe he was just a drunken asshole who destroyed a neighbor’s private property without warning. I guess we’ll find out which one it is when the case goes to court.
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It wouldn’t be a representation of your point. It is another issue we need to look at.
Ah, understood.
Try headphones with white (or pink) noise to drown the discrete signals under something bland enough to not have distinct peaks in the frequency spectrum - may help?
…and/or moving somewhere quieter?
The society at least in the populated area won’t be any less noisy anytime soon. And for a good reason, sorry to say that - I myself was saved a couple times by noisy alerts that got me to notice e.g. a vehicle on a collision path.
