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How do we know this drone was actually looking in this woman's apartment? I think we need pics of the woman to be sure. 
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Drone Caught Peeping Into Woman's Window
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Darunion
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Seriously, people like that ruining the hobby for the rest of us!
heatlesssun
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Peeping drone.
Darunion
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Of course that is, if it was even doing that. She may have just freaked out for no reason, may not have even had a camera.
This is why I don't fly mine at my apartment complex, prefer to avoid the reaction, the huge nature parks are more suitable anyways.
This is why I don't fly mine at my apartment complex, prefer to avoid the reaction, the huge nature parks are more suitable anyways.
That a woman lied about a kid flying his new toy outside his house in a huge overreaction, or that someone actually was flying low on her property by her window (extremely unlikely IMO).
Besides, if you're walking around naked with the blinds open, its not like there aren't very inexpensive 50x zoom digital cameras available, and they record very good video too. Certainly better than a fish-eye gopro or similar mounted to a vibrating and moving platform.
I think we need pics of the woman to be sure.
Jesus Christ.... really?
tikiman2012
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Close the shades.
Steve, actually. But the resemblance is uncanny, easy to mix the two up.
robothunter
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I don't think you want to see a picture of her. It's always the fat, ugly women that claim someone is looking at them because they want the attention.
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Fuck reading the article... The drone was piloted by two men who packed up and ran off when an apartment employee ceme down. Nowhere in the article was it even implied she was naked either.
Puerile coming in to blame the woman with literally no info other then the dudes ran away is pathetic. We get it that it's your hobby but knee jerk defending these guys because it's your hobby is stupid. This was bound to happen...
sfsuphysics
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I think video of the incident is necessary before we jump to the conclusion that this drone was "peeping" at her. I mean lets be honest, she saw a drone "outside" her window, well where else would it be? Inside her apartment? Unless it was literally feet away, they weren't peeping for shit.
Is it really spying through her apartment window? Or was it just passing by. How far was it? What camera was on it? How big/noisy was it? Remember how the other woman claimed it was spying on her as well when the flight video showed it wasn't hovering anywhere near her or focusing on her at any time.
Even if these were a couple of perverts, voyeurism laws are already in place, treat them like any other guy with a set of binoculars.
Easy enough, when those guys are found, just get their footage and see. You're basically doing the same thing the cops did when the woman at the beach screamed wolf. If the guy didn't have both the footage on his cellphone and on his flight camera, you'd likely be saying the same thing as well. The kid saw the woman coming, and decided to avoid confrontation and leave until the woman grabbed him.
As for the guys leaving, it could very well be a couple of guys making stock footage for their video. Flight videos of moving down a street are not uncommon. These things only last five to ten minutes, and once the battery is out, you're done.
Even if these were a couple of perverts, voyeurism laws are already in place, treat them like any other guy with a set of binoculars.
Easy enough, when those guys are found, just get their footage and see. You're basically doing the same thing the cops did when the woman at the beach screamed wolf. If the guy didn't have both the footage on his cellphone and on his flight camera, you'd likely be saying the same thing as well. The kid saw the woman coming, and decided to avoid confrontation and leave until the woman grabbed him.
As for the guys leaving, it could very well be a couple of guys making stock footage for their video. Flight videos of moving down a street are not uncommon. These things only last five to ten minutes, and once the battery is out, you're done.
The irony of your post:
Fuck reading the article, use your fantasy scenario about guys running off when they were "busted" by an employee.
The police have an insanely slow response time to non-emergency events like this, which means the guys surely ran out of battery (the batteries last about 12-15 mins for a flight), and simply packed up when they were done. There's no mention of running anywhere, and why would they, its not illegal.
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I thought that read "Drone Caught PEEING into Woman's Window."
Reminds me of this.
http://youtu.be/IdSUKIFnYc8?t=8s
Reminds me of this.
http://youtu.be/IdSUKIFnYc8?t=8s
Of course that is, if it was even doing that. She may have just freaked out for no reason, may not have even had a camera.
This is why I don't fly mine at my apartment complex, prefer to avoid the reaction, the huge nature parks are more suitable anyways.
As long as it's not one of these parks:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nat...ional-parks/YCxJ8DGfQgNArkENgd8Z3M/story.html
Also if the employee simply said "hey guys, people are complaining about you flying here", wouldn't you just pack up your stuff? What response were you expecting a reasonable person to do when informed that they were bothering people with their RC toy?
sfsuphysics
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While you may have read the article you definitely put in a lot more detail than was actually in the article. Says they packed up gear and drove off, not that they "ran away" which implies they were actively trying to get away, did anyone confront the guys? Not according to the article, just someone saw two guys. Anyone ask them to stick around while police showed up? Not according to the article. I would think those types of details "men actively tried to avoid questioning" would be something worth mentioning if they occurred because that implies more guilt than just "well the 15 minute battery pack was fun, but rather than sitting outside in a parking lot all day I think we'll pack up and go home"
And considering wasn't too long ago there was the video of the woman at the beach who absolutely went bat shit insane and started attacking a young guy for flying his drone over the beach, I don't think it's puerile at all to blame the woman for over reacting.
Last time someone was playing with their drone and a woman thought it was for peeping, it didnt go well. She lied about what happened, called the police, and when she didn't get what she wanted, she sexually assaulted him. I would leave too, even if I wasn't doing anything wrong.
With the current information, I would believe someone was just playing with their drone and some woman overracted for attention or because she is stupid before I would believe someone was using it to peep on someone. It was in the middle of the day, involved two people standing in plain sight, and drone cameras are bad for peeping. It was in Seatle, for all we know it might have been two Amazon engineers testing something.
Because that happened once, it applies for all situations.
Geez... people complaining about over-reacting.
It's not a fucking drone, it's a remote control quad rotor. It ridiculous that media is making such a big deal out of this calling them "drones," it almost seems like they are just trying to drive up a media frenzy to get military drones banned. I have one of those little RC helicopters that has a camera on it as well that I got quite along time ago before all this drone hype, this is nothing that couldn't have happened or hasn't happened before.
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You might want to speak to the manufacturer then: Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 Elite Edition Quadricopter http://www.amazon.com/Parrot-AR-Dro...id=1403618000&sr=8-1&keywords=parrot+ar+drone
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Sorry but you don't equip your helicopter with a fucking camera then drive to an apartment complex to fly unless you have a specific reason. And I say ran away because they packed up and left before the cops arrived.
I gave up, everything is considered a drone now. Sadly, that means there's no way to destinguish between a government 1200 pound unmanned aircraft with all kinds of avionics and surveillance and database collecting equipment and/or missles and some random kid playing with his toy on his iPad.
Neither is getting a head caved in with a crowbar. Never understood the 'happened before, happening now so its ok' defense.
That 1200 pound 'unmanned' aircraft is likely remote pilotted on only in drone mode if the connection is severed. Most of the military references to drone are incorrect as well.
A 'average guy' spying on me is of equal concern to me as the government spying on me. Or is it ok for the NSA to ditch the ties and dawn some shorts and crocs use some lowe end gear and they should be left alone?
There are so many specific reasons to do that other than peeping and are more believable. Here are a few
Playing with new toy to get aerial view of city.
Working for a company experimenting with quadcopters.
Students experimenting with software for quad copters to turn them autonomous.
Working for a company that produces quadcopters.
How likely are those compared to
Me and my perverted buddy are peeping on people with a low quality, fish eye camera, on a constantly moving quadcopter. We are also doing it in the middle of the day and not trying to hide at all.
That one is right next to Aliens digused as humans using quadcopters to steal souls.
What would a random stranger need to know about you, and what would he do with information like what color your drapes are, which he could just as plainly see with some binoculars from a public spot?
And unlike the NSA, how exactly is some random schmuck going to be able to consolidate lots of information about you and input it into a database along with many others, and actually take some kind of action on that?
Random schmuck with a RC helicopter is nothing like NSA surveillance, and I'm not even sure how someone can make the comparison.
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I think his point is that the word "drone" is now being thrown around and the media is sensationalizing it, whereas things like this have likely been happening for a long time.
So a couple marketing nuts call it a "drone" it must be a drone. IMO calling something a drone implies some level of autonomy even if there is a human controlling the aircraft. That quad-rotor you posted is just a remote controlled aircraft. The line between the the two might be blurry, but regardless my point is not so much that but rather that this sounds to me like they are just trying to over hype it and get people "scared."
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Exactly.
I'm wouldn't try to defend these guys if they were in fact snooping on that woman. Sure that makes them a couple of pervs, and sure catch'em, fine'em whatever. If true, the fact that they did it with a quad-rotor is irrelevant to the case other than to provide the means. The motive and opportunity has nothing to do with the over-sensationalized subject of the article.
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Brings to mind the scene from the movie, "Blue Thunder" (1983), when Frank Murphy and Montoya (Roy Schieder and Joe Santos) were out testing the "Blue Thunder" helicopter (that just happened to have stealth mode). They hovered outside an apartment building window looking in on a young, nubile, and limber woman doing some yoga exercises in her living room.
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I just imagined a tough guy Jesus wearing a bra... "Praise my Dad".
It was bound to happen sometime. Even if it's not legit and it was just outside and she over reacted, there will be times when it will be used by peeping toms or some horney teenager. Kind of like how computers were designed for certain things, but used for watching porn. People are some horney animals, we will use what we can to get that free look at boobies.
If the lady is over-reacting, she'll go for an all out ban on these horrible things that can take pictures of her while she's dressing. If he really was, she'll probably just go far enough to get him in trouble... (she is from Seattle...)
How do you know they ran away? Maybe they just packed up and left because they were done testing the thing? I'm just playing devils advocate here, but there could be several sides to the story other than the one you're assuming.
I sure as hell wouldn't want some paranoid lady calling the cops on me just because I was flying my quad-rotor with a camera at the beach trying to get video of surfers, while she thought I was taking pictures of her ass while she was sunbathing on the beach. Sure the proof is right there in the video, but there's a whole mess of potentially damaging accusations going on there before there is even the opportunity to present any proof.
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The Parrot AR that I linked actually DOES have some level of autonomy, it can be preprogrammed with flight maneuvers.
Commercial aircrafts would be classified as drones then. They fly the plane with no pilot input for the majority of a flight these days.