Man allegedly shoots down neighbor’s drone with shotgun(digitaltrends.com) |
Man allegedly shoots down neighbor’s drone with shotgun(digitaltrends.com) |
Second thought: why arrest a guy for simple property damage? A hundred dollars damage or so. Isn't that a civil case?
First, intentional damage to or destruction of property is different from "simple property damage" and is usually criminal for the same reason other intentional acts depriving an owner of their property (e.g., theft) are.
Second, in many places discharging a firearm is generally prohibited except in specifically enumerated circumstances where it allowed. (Its a very common prohibition in urban/suburban areas.)
So I wonder how you decided they arrested him for simple property damage? Do you mean to obliquely dismiss the other charges?
Also around where I live, shooting your shotgun isn't any kind of offence. The whole article smells of hoax.
If you want to rephrase it and say How come discharging a shotgun over property you don't own is criminal when all it does is a little bit of property damage?, then I'm not left with anything to be pedantic about.
I think its all made up.
Edit: I'm also comfortable with the assumption that the police took the location of the firing and such into account when they made the arrest.