This is a repost. I am not the original author (see disclaimer at the bottom).
Original by u/DeadDrone999 in r/legaladvice
Not sure what to do. Earlier today my neighbor came pounding on my door screaming obscenities and shouting at me. When I finally got him to stop yelling I found out that he was flying his drone in my backyard again and this time my dog finally managed to catch it and destroy it. He claims this was a $900 drone and I had to pay him right then and there. I refused and closed the door in his face. A couple hours later police showed up to retrieve the drone; it was still in my yard, but my dog completely ignored it once it stopped buzzing; and ask about the situation. The said neighbor called them stating that I refused him access to my yard to get it. That’s not true, he never asked.
I’m worried the neighbor will try to press charges against me for destruction of property or sue me. Will he have any legal standing if this does go to court?
He has a history of flying his drone low over my yard to tease my dog. I have asked him to stop several times, which he always refuses telling me that I don’t own the air above my yard. I have called the police to complain once before, he was doing “fly bys” over my dog and getting very close to hitting him. The police didn’t say he couldn’t fly it in my yard but did ask him to stop doing so in order to avoid conflict. That only seemed to egg him on.
A small update to my neighbor flying his drone in my backyard and attacking my dog:
I was served a summons by a Sheriff’s Deputy, neighbor decided to take me to Small Claims over his drone. My MIL is a paralegal secretary, so I was able to get a free consultation with a lawyer where she works to ask some questions about what to bring and how to prepare. He seemed genuinely amused that my neighbor was even trying to sue. He also suggested I counter sue and how I could possibly add in more damages.
He also told me that my neighbor and I technically live within 5 miles of an airport, and even though it doesn’t have a tower technically that falls under FAA regulations. I called the hotline from google and spoke to them about my neighbor’s hobby of flying out of line of sight, flying several thousand feet in the air, flying near an airport and made an inquiry into if he was registered to fly drones, saying he owned two very large drones (he already bought a new one, this one is almost 5’ across). I don’t know the weight of his, but it definitely is at least a few pounds. They took my information and have called me back once, so I know they’re investigating but don’t know anything else. Not sure if they’ll tell me anything anyways.
I brought both police reports to court, as well as several photos of my backyard, photos of our shared 8’ high privacy fence, medical bills for my dog, and a few short videos I had of him doing fly bys over my dog in the past. His main argument to the judge was that I “maliciously installed a table to allow my dog to jump high enough to catch his drone, which I (somehow) trained him to do”. Which, yes I had recently bought a new picnic table, but only so I have somewhere to sit and eat outside. I argued that his flying was causing my dog anxiety and that’s what provoked it, and thanks to y’alls advice, that my dog could have potentially died from ingesting part of the drone or if the drone hit him. In the end, he now has to pay me just under $2,000 for various vet bills (xrays, dental exams, sedation, medication etc). He is also banned from flying over my property, and I installed trail cams front and back yards just in case. He seems pretty upset with me, so I wanted to be careful.
The only thing that could make this better is if the FAA finds a reason to fine him or take away his drones.
Editor’s note: Found this dog tax while going through OOP’s comments.
Reminder: I am not the original OP.
Disclaimer
This is a repost from reddit. I really missed this sub so I decided to post some top articles from time to time until hopefully one day this community will be large enough to produce its own content.
Read the original here
This is a classic. Some people truly rely on people to just get scared and give in to their demands even if there’s no standing.
Why do you write OOP?
Original Original Poster sounds dumb.
OP is the person posting the aggregation version here.
OOP is the actual person who created the series of posts.
It was likely seperated this way to identify which poster is being referred to.
I can tell who is who, it’s just that Original Original Poster sounds dumb.
Removed by mod
Massive improvement. It sounds professional, serious and stuff…
I humbly suggest Oop and Op. Pronounced as words. Like loop and top.
The problem is, that OOP is an acronym already widespread and used since long.
Therefore, this attempt at forcing new word into local dialect seems dumb.
I read it as Original OP, which does sound OK, but that’s just me
It’s the standard term in the BORU subreddit where these posts come from. It means Other Original Poster.
“Do not multiply entities beyond necessity”
There’s no such thing as “other original poster”.
There’s only original poster and people who repost it. That’s why there’s the “I’m not OP” disclaimer…
Oh great, a pedant.
BORU used those terms, and people understood what they meant. Did you really have to display your pedantry like a badge of honour?
Oh great, a pedant.
I’m so sorry that you’re triggered by someone’s opinion. Can I suggest leaving the Internet immediately and for good, while at that?
From the person triggered by a well established acronym.
Correction: from the misuse of a well established acronym, one that belongs to programming.
OOP Out of Picture (greyhound racing, 30+ lengths behind the winning greyhound)
OOP Out of Place
OOP Out of Pouch (sugar gliders)
OOP Order of Play (sports)
OOP Out Of Play
OOP Object Oriented Programming
OOP Out of Protection (gaming)
You’re being pedantic.
There’s the OP of this post, then there’s the OP of the Other post. So there’s the Other OP.
There can’t be “other” or “another” original poster.
There’s THE original poster and simply people who reposted his or her content.
OOP is an acronym for something entirely different.
There’s an original poster for each post. When you’re talking in one post about another post, there is another original poster from the other post. What you call that other original poster is up to you, but OOP is what the BORU sub settled on.
The person who posts a repost is an OP for that specific post, to differentiate them from the other commenters in the post. It’s not like Original Content, which his the root source of all reposts, it’s just a term that (automatically, by the site’s own labels) refers to the person who made that specific post, regardless of its content.
There’s an original poster for each post.
There’s only one Original Poster. Everyone else is doing reposting.
OOP
It’s an acronym already in use. You’re multiplying entities beyond the necessity.
In use for what?
Acronyms can be used for different things in different contexts.
As this is not OP posting, it is in fact the O OP. I agree, sounds weird, but what it is.
As this is not OP posting,
It’s already explained with “I’m not OP” disclaimer.
it is in fact the O OP.
So you think that each repost warrants for the addition of another “O”?
If someone links to your repost, it should be O O OP, then?
Come on… Nobody does that.
I agree it sounds ridiculous and I’m sorry you’ve been downvoted so much. Though this is a reddit repost so the downvotes are expected.
To be fair to Lemmy, this poster has been saying some pretty insane shit lately and possibly just attracting attention on themselves because of that.
It’s ok, I pay little attention to the voting system. 😁
