Mandatory FAA drone registration starts December 21

Gaius46 said:

Didn't some guy in the Carolinas or out west do just that and the judge rule him justified? My neighborhood is too crowded for that but I think I may still have a potato cannon my son built when he was young and incorrigible in the garage. I bet an Idaho would make fast work of a drone crowding my private space.

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yeah I believe so

estes rockets still are around I think-maybe some smart kid can figure out how to put a drone seeking guidance system in them!

TurtleDude said:

yeah I believe so

estes rockets still are around I think-maybe some smart kid can figure out how to put a drone seeking guidance system in them!

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Or they could do what the Japanese have done:

TurtleDude said:

yeah I believe so

estes rockets still are around I think-maybe some smart kid can figure out how to put a drone seeking guidance system in them!

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Yes, homemade surface to air guided missiles. That's a thing we want to encourage!

Deuce said:

Yes, homemade surface to air guided missiles. That's a thing we want to encourage!

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the payload wouldn't be any more than your basic 5 dollar skyrocket you buy from "Phantom Fireworks"

X Factor said:

That's ridiculous. You just don't want people having these things so you're all for regulating them out of existence. It's sadly typical.

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No, I want to make it easier for law enforcement to identify criminals and have punishments that actually serve as a deterrent for negligence on the part of sellers.

Napoleon said:

I'm sure there are a lot of corporations who wish that was so when they find themselves in civil court. Which also surfaces an additional punishment. The sellers should be held financially liable for all costs associated with identifying the owner of the drone down to last user if gifted or re-sold.

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most of those cases are thrown out of court for that very reason. unless the product or item causes damages of some kind it very much is on the owner and not the seller.

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No, I want to make it easier for law enforcement to identify criminals and have punishments that actually serve as a deterrent for negligence on the part of sellers.

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Making it easier to catch people doing things is really not a compelling argument to me. There's a lot we could do to make it easier to catch criminals if you don't mind the intrusion on personal liberty.

X Factor said:

Making it easier to catch people doing things is really not a compelling argument to me. There's a lot we could do to make it easier to catch criminals if you don't mind the intrusion on personal liberty.

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Do I have to be either for any intrusion or against any intrusion, or does the level of intrusion come into play?

Deuce said:

Yes, homemade surface to air guided missiles. That's a thing we want to encourage!

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We made and launched all manner of rockets as kids. Estes was one manufacturer but there was another who's models we liked better. We build several multi stage rockets that on paper were supposed to be able to reach 1000+ feet. Recovery after launch with these was always a problem because we lived in a densely populated place (Queens NY) and the things invariably floated down into someone's backyard a couple of blocks from the launch site - usually an ballfield near where we lived.

I especially liked the ones that could carry payloads. You were supposed to load them with a whole egg I guess the idea being to see if it came back in one piece. We usually launched them with insects - bees, crickets etc. They didn't seem to mind the g forces all that much.

Best was the Saturn IB we build with lots of help from my father. That was a thing of beauty. Probably stood 3-4 feet tall. Unfortunately it was lost on the first launch. It went up okay but the chute didn't open all the way. Splat!

I'm not going to register mine. Sorry. They can come take me away in handcuffs.