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I highly doubt people are shooting at drones. Shooting at any aircraft is incredibly illegal & dangerous. I'd assume people have better self-preservation instin

I highly doubt people are shooting at drones. Shooting at any aircraft is incredibly illegal & dangerous. I'd assume people have better self-preservation instincts than that.

sib 1y ago
You know what they say about assuming...
- dole 1y ago
  it makes an ass of u and massad ayoob
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SoftTalker 1y ago
People shoot at cars (road rage) which is way worse. I don't think such people have self-preservation instincts, or at least they aren't developed against threats such as "this might lead to an investigation and possible criminal charges some time in the future"
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > People shoot at cars (road rage) which is way worse Most people don’t have dashcams. Drones, on the other hand, would have evidence of both the crime and criminal intent.
- sneak 1y ago
  People very very rarely (almost never) shoot at cars due to road rage.
esseph 1y ago
You would be incorrect. It happens frequently and gets prosecuted.
- catigula 1y ago
  The word "frequently" is doing a lot of heavy-lifting here.
  - esseph 1y ago
    Completely up to what that word means to you. Just do a search for "charged with shooting at drone".
    - catigula 1y ago
      I had AI do a collation of news events and the general conclusion was > Civilian shootings at drones occur at a rate likely below 15 incidents per year in the U.S., compared to over one million registered drones. I'm going to have to conclude that this strains and breaks the bounds of the term 'frequently' and the initial term 'incorrect'.
      - esseph 1y ago
        So more than once a month an idiot is in the news for shooting at a drone. Depending on where you live, they might even be neighbors of yours. Something showing up every month is pretty damn frequent, especially when it leaks into national news and always grabs headlines, yet idiots still do it. I mean if a plane fell out of the sky once a month, is that frequently? What about if your bank blocked access to your account once a month when you needed it?
        Larrikin 1y ago
        Your strained analogy would actually be if any bank blocked one account from all bank accounts once a month.

I highly doubt people are shooting at drones. Shooting at any aircraft is incredibly illegal & dangerous. I'd assume people have better self-preservation instincts than that.

sib 1y ago

You know what they say about assuming...

dole 1y ago
it makes an ass of u and massad ayoob
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SoftTalker 1y ago

People shoot at cars (road rage) which is way worse. I don't think such people have self-preservation instincts, or at least they aren't developed against threats such as "this might lead to an investigation and possible criminal charges some time in the future"

JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> People shoot at cars (road rage) which is way worse Most people don’t have dashcams. Drones, on the other hand, would have evidence of both the crime and criminal intent.
sneak 1y ago
People very very rarely (almost never) shoot at cars due to road rage.

esseph 1y ago

You would be incorrect. It happens frequently and gets prosecuted.

catigula 1y ago
The word "frequently" is doing a lot of heavy-lifting here.
- esseph 1y ago
  Completely up to what that word means to you. Just do a search for "charged with shooting at drone".
  - catigula 1y ago
    I had AI do a collation of news events and the general conclusion was > Civilian shootings at drones occur at a rate likely below 15 incidents per year in the U.S., compared to over one million registered drones. I'm going to have to conclude that this strains and breaks the bounds of the term 'frequently' and the initial term 'incorrect'.
    - esseph 1y ago
      So more than once a month an idiot is in the news for shooting at a drone. Depending on where you live, they might even be neighbors of yours. Something showing up every month is pretty damn frequent, especially when it leaks into national news and always grabs headlines, yet idiots still do it. I mean if a plane fell out of the sky once a month, is that frequently? What about if your bank blocked access to your account once a month when you needed it?
      - Larrikin 1y ago
        Your strained analogy would actually be if any bank blocked one account from all bank accounts once a month.