Oh, the humanity!

[Tio_Narratore]

Is this true even if the drone is hovering in your backyard, ten feet off the ground, its camera recording what you are doing? It's hard to believe you couldn't take it down in that case. And if that is the law, that's a bad law!

Yes. It's an interpretation of the law. Remember, we own the land on which our house sits; neither the sky above nor the earth below the house and yard is ours. We can invoke other laws to charge/sue whoever is operating the drone, if we can find him, but we aren't free to destroy his property. It's the same as with the paparazzi; you may not like them photographing you, but it doesn't give you the right to destroy their cameras.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'd love to know what it is that occasionally Eats local pigeons; especially in my back garden. Every now and then, I come out to a pile of feathers and occasionally a few bits of bone stuff. I've never seen this avian attack (I really don't think it''s the local cats).

I've seen a falcon do it, back when I was visiting relatives in Oxford some years back. We were sitting in their lounge, and a pigeon landed on their back lawn. Shortly afterwards, the falcon dropped out of the sky - the pigeon never knew what hit it, and once the falcon was done dining, there was not much more than feathers left.

(Bird trivia: despite the obvious similarities, falcons are more closely related to parrots than to hawks or eagles. Convergent evolution is a weird thing.)