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Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by gosub100 on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:42PM (#44164580)
whats sad is that in many jurisdictions, it's perfectly legal to shoot animals on your property, including other peoples' pets. In my home state, there was recently an issue where a neighbors dog dug under the fence or otherwise got into the back yard, in a residential suburban neighborhood. The property owner blasted it (with a gun) and there was nothing the DA could do. It made the news due to the outrageous use of force, but no charges were filed.

What a time to be alive: mess with Uncle Bezos' trillion-dollar empire for appropriating your property? arrested with federal charges. kill a family pet? nothing we can do.

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by tjohns on Monday June 02, 2025 @08:25PM (#44164901)
The reason why it's illegal to shoot at airplanes has nothing to do with "Bezos's trillion-dollar empire", it's because it's categorically unsafe and you're likely to kill people by doing it, eiter in the sky or on the ground. It's just a really dumb idea.

As for killing animals that wander onto your property... that's been controversial for at least the last 160 years, when a similar incident almost started a war between the US and the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by gosub100 on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @08:31AM (#44169288)
I didn't say shoot at an airplane, and invoking disputes that happened 160 years ago is hardly relevant to the point I made.

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