Man shoots down drone over property, receives $850 fine

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When Brett McBay discovered a drone flying over his property, he had his son shoot it down with a shotgun — and he, not the owner of the drone, was the one who was punished.

The unmanned aerial vehicle belonged to his neighbor, Eric Joe, who insisted that he hadn’t flown it over McBay’s property. McBay claimed he called for the shotgun thinking that the drone was a “CIA surveillance device.”

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