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A friend of mine was arrested for flying a quadcopter into one of these.

by blamazon 4y ago

heavyset_go 4y ago
What were the charges and were they convicted?
- usefulcat 4y ago
  Arrested != charged
- blamazon 4y ago
  As the other commenter pointed out, no charges. This was in the early days of remote pilotry. After a long night of police questioning, culminating in LAPD speaking to his parents on the phone, LAPD presumed he wasn't a terrorist, and instead just an impulsive and inquisitive youth, so he was free to go. His quadcopter was confiscated and not returned, he apologized to the oil company, and that was pretty much the end of it, although I'm sure he ended up in some sorts of undesirable databases. Somewhat funnily once the FAA regs caught up he became a legitimate remote pilot and has performed many oil and gas related inspections, although not in LA.
  - nexuist 4y ago
    As the Mythbusters so generously taught us, "the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down."
    - yesenadam 4y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
  - dTal 4y ago
    I'm curious at the legal principle which permits confiscating private property without charge.
    - Tabular-Iceberg 4y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
    - smcl 4y ago
      This happens all the time, property gets seized at the merest suspicion of crime (whether or not it was actually prosecuted) and is often not returned. Jon Oliver did a piece on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
    - blamazon 4y ago
      As the other commenters pointed out, this is established legal principle in USA. The police will even gleefully crush with a bulldozer such property: https://mobile.twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/732628652949639168 https://mobile.twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/73262865294963916...

A friend of mine was arrested for flying a quadcopter into one of these.

heavyset_go 4y ago

What were the charges and were they convicted?

usefulcat 4y ago
Arrested != charged
blamazon 4y ago
As the other commenter pointed out, no charges. This was in the early days of remote pilotry. After a long night of police questioning, culminating in LAPD speaking to his parents on the phone, LAPD presumed he wasn't a terrorist, and instead just an impulsive and inquisitive youth, so he was free to go. His quadcopter was confiscated and not returned, he apologized to the oil company, and that was pretty much the end of it, although I'm sure he ended up in some sorts of undesirable databases. Somewhat funnily once the FAA regs caught up he became a legitimate remote pilot and has performed many oil and gas related inspections, although not in LA.
- nexuist 4y ago
  As the Mythbusters so generously taught us, "the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down."
  - yesenadam 4y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
- dTal 4y ago
  I'm curious at the legal principle which permits confiscating private property without charge.
  - Tabular-Iceberg 4y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
  - smcl 4y ago
    This happens all the time, property gets seized at the merest suspicion of crime (whether or not it was actually prosecuted) and is often not returned. Jon Oliver did a piece on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
  - blamazon 4y ago
    As the other commenters pointed out, this is established legal principle in USA. The police will even gleefully crush with a bulldozer such property: https://mobile.twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/732628652949639168 https://mobile.twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/73262865294963916...