What do you think about one group spying on another group with a 'drone' to video activities on another group's land? Seriously????? Having neighbor spy on neighbors, now using private drones to 'watch' your neighbor's land, animals, activity, or whatever they want? Then what?
This is madness!
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Animal rights group says drone shot down
Animal rights group SHARK said a remote-controlled aircraft like this one was shot down near Ehrhardt. It planned to use the drone to video live pigeon shoots at the privately owned Broxton Bridge Plantation.
A remote-controlled aircraft owned by an animal rights group was reportedly shot down near Broxton Bridge Plantation Sunday.
Steve Hindi, president of SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness), said his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter drone to video what he called a live pigeon shoot on Sunday when law enforcement officers and an attorney claiming to represent the privately-owned plantation near Ehrhardt tried to stop the aircraft from flying.
"It didn't work; what SHARK was doing was perfectly legal," Hindi said in a news release. "Once they knew nothing was going to stop us, the shooting stopped and the cars lined up to leave."
He said the animal rights group decided to send the drone up anyway.
"Seconds after it hit the air, numerous shots rang out," Hindi said in the release. "As an act of revenge for us shutting down the pigeon slaughter, they had shot down our copter."
He claimed the shooters were "in tree cover" and "fled the scene on small motorized vehicles."
"It is important to note how dangerous this was, as they were shooting toward and into a well-travelled highway," Hindi stated in the release. He said someone from SHARK called the Colleton County Sheriff's Department, which took a report of the incident.
The Colleton County Sheriff's Department filed a malicious damage to property incident report.
According to the report, Hindi told the responding deputy the group's remote-controlled aircraft "was hovering over U.S. 601 when he heard a shot come from the wood line. The shot sounded to him that it was of small caliber."
The incident report went on to state that "once shot, the helicopter lost lift and crash landed on the roadway of U.S. 601."
The deputy noted in the report that he was unable to speak to anyone at Broxton Bridge Plantation following the incident.
Hindi estimated damage to the drone at around $200 to $300.
Hindi said he will seek charges against those who shot down the drone.
"This was SHARK's first encounter with the Broxton Bridge Plantation, but it will certainly not be the last," Hindi said in the release. "We are already making plans for a considerably upscaled action in 2013."
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Comments: 24
These barbaric animal slaughter orgies should be outlawed in every state.
Live Pigeon Shoot Video
surely you see what is happening here. You are free to give up your freedoms but leave mine alone! And who are you to judge what others do as long as it doesn't effect you?
Did you know you are probably eating horse meat and don't even know it?
So many wrongs are going on in this country.
I also have to agree with Aine, I have seen a lot of animal abuse in Idaho, I also see our country's abuse toward each other. Sad times for all.
Even if it isn't our business something has to be done about abuses when it comes to helpless animals.
Cattle farms are a reality which meets the demand, as are meat factories, and slaughter houses. You wouldn't want to see those either. Meat animals are not pets, are being fed to be used for meat only.
A friend of ours at college showed us a chart showing our bodies consist of corn mostly.
I realize these animals are meat for our consumption, but they aren't healthy animals, I also realize Monsanto is part of our food chain now, most farmers here are part of that chain. They have no choice since we feed a huge population now.
There are a few farms here that graze their animals on BLM land, there are also smaller farms where the cows lay in their own feces.
That's a difficult problem. I don't like to picture it. I know God said he put man over the animals, but I'm sure we'd all rather the cows could roam around and enjoy nature. I'm sure that would take more room and be more difficult to keep up with ages etc. I take some peace in thinking that's all they know. They don't know what it could be. Sniff.
That is why I always say, BUY FROM LOCALS because then you know the product. It's supply and demand. Grocery stores no longer cut the meat there - it is sent in frozen, they thaw and package it to sell. So, if you freeze your meat from a grocery store, it has already been frozen which is not a good thing. There is SO much meat being imported - in cans - and used and we have NO IDEA how animals were raised or what the animals are? Horse meat slips into our food supply w/o people even knowing.
So, the real question is, why were the shooters disturbed enough by being videoed that they fired on someone's property which was in no way violating their rights? If the same video equipment had been on the ground and they had shot at it, it would have been obviously a case of destruction of private property (again, since they can make no claim that the video equipment was violating their rights).
In point of fact, as long as the behaviors in question are not those that one would normally have an expectation of privacy regarding (ie undressing, showering, toileting, etc) or occurring inside the home, I don't see much of a case against the videographers.