by DMC1983 » Sun Jul 18, 2021 7:56 pm
This is the thing. Youre supposedly not allowed to film the police but they are always filming you. Strange how that works. Also, the police go on the hopes that you dont actually know your rights and when you show you do, they start to back down. Of course a courteous, humble approach goes further than if you tell them to F off cos you know your rights.
As for drones, i was on public land and the drone was sent up from public land. People do not own the air above their house so im legally allowed to fly over houses within a certain distance. Obviously, flying around their house and peeking into windows for example is a privacy concern and against the drone code unless you have the home owners permission, otherwise theres not much they can do except ask you not to and its up to the operator to comply or not (i would just to avoid further conflict as i think most operators would).
Thing is, there are many dos and donts, some of it contradicts itself but what i was doing should not have illicited the reaction i got. From a legal and lawful POV i did nothing wrong. From any POV i did nothing wrong as i was not filming them (why would anyone want to?) And its their choice to ignore me when i was willing to show them all that i had filmed and rather just have a meltdown and start filming me like a child tit for tat mentality.
All i can say to anyone who is thinking about buying a drone or flying one for fun, get the operators license, pass the theory, fly sensibly and when dicks act like this, stay calm, try to reason with them, pack up and leave. If the police get involved, stand your ground and tell them youve done the course and want to do everything legally and sensibly and you tried to explain what you were doing to the angry babies. The police will likely take your side and tell you to be on your way.
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