It sounds like a lot of fun. I hope our town passes this, too. --- DEER TRAIL, Colo. (CBS4) â A tiny town in Coloradoâs Eastern Plains is declaring war on drones. The town of Deer Trail plans to begin issuing drone hunting licenses if a controversial ordinance passes Tuesday night. Deer Trail resident Phillip Steel, whose house is surrounded by no trespassing signs, wrote the ordinance to protect individual privacy rights. âWe donât want a surveillance society here.â Steel said. Steel says drones are too powerful and too intrusive. He fears drones will become more prevalent in the skies in the coming years, but admits he hasnât ever seen a drone flying over Deer Trail. âRight now we donât have drones flying in our skies, great. We want to keep it that way.â So Steel authored the first ever âno-drone zoneâ ordinance which gives individuals with licenses the right to shoot down a drone flying over Deer Trail with a shotgun. Deer Trail also plans to offer a cash bounty for pieces of shot down drones, which they will call trophies. (Read the Ordinance) âIf you donât want your drone to go down, donât fly in town.â Steel said. âThatâs our motto.â Deer Trail Mayor Frank Fields agrees with Steel and believes the Drone hunting ban will pass. âUsing it against terrorists is okay, but we donât need to be using it in our little towns, peeking in windows and stuff,â Fields said. Fields says the proposed ordinance is âkind of real, kind of tongue-and-cheek.â He sees the ordinance as an opportunity for revenue. He says 157 people have already signed up to be the first to get a drone hunting license at $25 each. He also thinks drone hunting could bring tourists and souvenir shops to Deer Trail. âWe need business, we need money,â Fields said. The mayor is considering holding drone hunting events if the new ordinance passes. http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/08/05/ordinance-would-allow-for-drone-hunting-in-deer-trail/
$25 license and you are good to go! I'm thinking only shotguns allowed but we may need 3" shells for those high flyiers.
(CNSNews.com) - A Predator drone designed to catch terrorists in Afghanistan was used to track a recalcitrant North Dakota rancher and his sons accused of cattle thieving and monitor them to see when they were unarmed and alert the police in a case believed to be the first where an American citizen was arrested with the aid of a drone. On Jan. 14, 2014, Rodney Brossart was acquitted of stealing cattle and criminal mischief, but convicted of terrorizing police (a conviction he is appealing) and sentenced to three years in prison with all but six months suspended. This all stems from an incident on June 22, 2011, when six cattle from a neighboring property wandered onto Brossart’s ranch. Brossart found the cattle and, not knowing to whom they belonged, penned them in an area known as the “missile site.” Brossart refused to return the cattle without remuneration (which he is entitled to under state law), but the police asserted that Brossart needed to return the cattle to the neighbor under estray laws... http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-boland/predator-drone-used-arrest-american-ranch-family
So, some little rinky-dink town 56 miles east of Denver is getting all up in arms about the drones that won't be flying over their little community. Nothing out there except Ted Turner's buffalo... Yawn... Next...
FAA: U.S. Airliner Nearly Collided With Drone in March Incident Appears to be First Case of a Big U.S. Airliner Nearly Colliding With an Airborne Drone By Jack Nicas Updated May 9, 2014 4:50 p.m. ET A U.S. airliner nearly collided with a drone over Florida earlier this year, a federal official said, a near miss that highlights risks posed by the proliferation of unmanned aircraft in U.S. skies. A pilot of an American Airlines Group Inc. regional jet told officials that on March 22 he came dangerously close to a "small remotely piloted aircraft" about 2,300 feet above the ground near Tallahassee Regional Airport in Florida, said Jim Williams, head of the unmanned-aircraft office at the Federal Aviation...