Man takes drone out for maiden voyage, other man shoots at it [View all]
The owner of a drone store outside Nashville told Ars on Friday that two of his customers have had their unmanned aerial vehicles shot at in recent weeks.
The incident is reminiscent of last years similar incident in California and another in Kentucky, which resulted in the shooter being cleared on local firearms charges. As drones become more pervasive, it seems that drones, perceived privacy violations, and firearms are increasingly becoming a dangerous combination.
According to Byron Brock, the owner of Vivid Aerial in Whites Creek, a man named Gary Sammons was flying his new DJI Phantom 4 above his home in Rutherford County last Saturday.
"Sammons and his son were flying, and they were looking at their property, and they noticed an unfamiliar vehicle nearby, so he flew over the front of the propertyhe got lower than I would have gottenhe was at 85 feet and yet still off of his own property," Brock told Ars.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/tennessee-trucker-fires-three-shotgun-blasts-at-overhead-drone/