Neighbor shoots down man’s hexacopter in drone vs. shotgun battle

By: Laura Meyers

Scene: In a rural, gun-toting libertarian republic, two neighborly men had a face-off. The first neighbor was testing his self-constructed drone when all of a sudden, his neighbor sighted in, and brought the hexacopter down with one shot from his 12-gauge, for fear that the CIA was surveying his private property.

Two men in Modesto, California are facing off after one man, Brett McBay, shot down his neighbor, Eric Joe’s drone, and refuses to pay Joe’s suggested costs in damages.

Joe had been flying the drone for only three minutes when he heard the shot.

“When I went out to go find it, I saw him come out shotgun-in-hand,” Joe said. “I asked: ‘Did you shoot that thing?’ He said, ‘Yeah, did we get it?’”

Joe claimed that McBay said: “I thought it was a CIA surveillance device.”

When he said he “didn’t want to get argumentative with a guy with a shotgun,” Joe then initiated an email exchange with his neighbor about the incident.

 

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McBay, however, is refusing to pay Joe’s suggested costs in damages because he says it was within his right to defend his private property.

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Joe took his case to a small claims court that ruled in Joe’s favor and awarded him $850 for damages. McBay, however, has yet to pay the full amount due, and Joe is likely to continue pursuing legal action until his trigger-happy neighbor ponies up.

“We don’t believe that the drone was over McBay’s property—we maintain that it was briefly over the shared county access road,” said Jesse Woo, Joe’s cousin and attorney. “But even if it did, you’re only privileged to use reasonable force in defense of property. Shooting a shotgun at this thing that isn’t threatening your property isn’t reasonable.”

Yeehaw, boys.

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