Most days we wake up and everything is going smoothly without anything really coming up that would be considered out of the ordinary. Then again, there are days when the craziest things happen.
It seems as if one person was having a problem that could be considered crazy, to say the least. The issue involved a neighbor flying their drone over the backyard to harass their dog, and the dog finally won.
After the police showed up and the man demanded his drone back, it left the person wondering if they were going to be served. They came online to ask for advice, and here’s their story.
Not sure what to do. Earlier today my neighbor came pounding on my door screaming obscenities and shouting at me. When I finally got him to stop yelling I found out that he was flying his drone in my backyard again and this time my dog finally managed to catch it and destroy it. He claims this was a $900 drone and I had to pay him right then and there. I refused and closed the door in his face. A couple hours later police showed up to retrieve the drone; it was still in my yard, but my dog completely ignored it once it stopped buzzing; and ask about the situation. The said neighbor called them stating that I refused him access to my yard to get it. That’s not true, he never asked.
I’m worried the neighbor will try to press charges against me for destruction of property or sue me. Will he have any legal standing if this does go to court?
He has a history of flying his drone low over my yard to tease my dog. I have asked him to stop several times, which he always refuses telling me that I don’t own the air above my yard. I have called the police to complain once before, he was doing “fly bys” over my dog and getting very close to hitting him. The police didn’t say he couldn’t fly it in my yard but did ask him to stop doing so in order to avoid conflict. That only seemed to egg him on.
