As some of you folks who have been around for a while know, I have an asshole neighbor with a really fucking annoying model aircraft which he insists on flying over my house on pleasant evenings and nice weekends, totally fucking up my peace, quiet and sanctuary. I am working on dealing with it legally but the process is long and irritating - the law tends to protect assholes. The second time I went to chat to him about it, I was less than cordial and he responded by sending the cops over to my house claiming that I had assaulted him by throwing my bicycle at him, which was total fabricated bullshit. I have long speculated to my wife that he's probably a teabagger. Well guess whats flying out front of his house today? You guessed it, the usurped battle flag of the republic, symbol o' the teabagger. So, Mr. I don't wanna pay taxes is happy to send the taxpayer funded cops after his scary loud neighbor when they yell at him for being an annoying asswipe but doesn't want to pay for it. By libertarian all guns, all the time, teabagger rules shouldn't I be able to load my 870 with magnum waterfowl loads and shoot his irritating little toy out of the sky?

Next example. I spent the holiday weekend on the boat with family. The marina we keep it in is near a built up beach with public access between some of the lots. We took my son down to wade in the bay. We were in front of a group of beach houses, directly in front of one. The asswipe who owns the mortgage came out and told us we're on private property, that it's his back yard, he paid a lot of money for it and piss off. This despite the fact we're below the high tide line, plus you legally have to allow a 20' right of way in VA. Sorry sea level rise is eating up your property, dude! I explained the law to him, told him "whatever, dude" and moved 20' down the beach. Not even two hours later I see the same dickhead riding his bike down the dock at my private marina, which is clearly and adequately posted all over the place "Private Property, Slip Owner's, Holders and Guests Only". He got a kinda dumb look on his face when he saw us.

The level of "doublethink" in this country is becoming truly astounding recently.

Rant off!

Have a nice day.

Get a transmitter scrambler. Or get an RC of your own, break in when he's not home, merge your transmitter to his plane and the next time he's flying, whip out your RC and try a triple lindy.

Don't you have abunch of air guns? Why not use his toy as target practice?

Sonofagun wrote:Get a transmitter scrambler. Or get an RC of your own, break in when he's not home, merge your transmitter to his plane and the next time he's flying, whip out your RC and try a triple lindy.

Nah, I think an aerial dogfight will be much better! Go Kamikaze on his little flier!

Or, light a bunch of shell/mortar fireworks right when the little toy plane flies overhead!

I`d probably shoot the plane, tell him he was invading your airspace, if has anything to say, tell him to call the FAA. No, seriously, dont do that you might go to jail.

Invoke the Shrub Doctrine and use pre-emptive hostility. Works for me in my truck.

I like the scrambler idea

Intentionally interfering with signals is illegal, per FCC regs, plus with 2.4ghz transmitters it's not as easy as you would imagine. While airguns are legal to shoot in my city, shooting any projectile indiscriminately into the air is not and you are responsible for any damage it may cause, plus it's just plain antisocial and I guess that's kinda the whole point of my post.

AdAstra, your suggestion is one I'm seriously considering, also, just buying one of the annoying things and flying it in the really nice local waterfront neighborhoods to make a point. I don't really want to be an irritating asshole myself though... (Not anymore than you all know me to be, anyway )

Thanks for reading.

[edit] I'm a pretty decent shot with my airguns but hitting a target which can fly over 100mph with a pellet gun is nigh on impossible!

Don't get me started about asshole teabaggers

I'd say build a Sturmovik and fly that armored flying dreadnaught into the noisey plane.

lol

I hate it when asshats use the Gadsen and feel they have something new.

Then again, I like the segmented snake battle flag better.

Oh my your post brought back memories for me. Back in the 70s I bought a BB gun called a mini menacer. I threw it away when I found out about freon, that was the propellant. If you could find one a air hose hook up from an air compressor would turn it into an anti aircraft gun that would take that thing down in style.

How about a net fisherman use to catch mullet for bait? Does he fly his airplane low enough to throw it in it's path?

masonalannz wrote:As some of you folks who have been around for a while know, I have an asshole neighbor with a really fucking annoying model aircraft which he insists on flying over my house on pleasant evenings and nice weekends, totally fucking up my peace, quiet and sanctuary. I am working on dealing with it legally but the process is long and irritating - the law tends to protect assholes. The second time I went to chat to him about it, I was less than cordial and he responded by sending the cops over to my house claiming that I had assaulted him by throwing my bicycle at him, which was total fabricated bullshit. I have long speculated to my wife that he's probably a teabagger. Well guess whats flying out front of his house today? You guessed it, the usurped battle flag of the republic, symbol o' the teabagger. So, Mr. I don't wanna pay taxes is happy to send the taxpayer funded cops after his scary loud neighbor when they yell at him for being an annoying asswipe but doesn't want to pay for it. By libertarian all guns, all the time, teabagger rules shouldn't I be able to load my 870 with magnum waterfowl loads and shoot his irritating little toy out of the sky?

Next example. I spent the holiday weekend on the boat with family. The marina we keep it in is near a built up beach with public access between some of the lots. We took my son down to wade in the bay. We were in front of a group of beach houses, directly in front of one. The asswipe who owns the mortgage came out and told us we're on private property, that it's his back yard, he paid a lot of money for it and piss off. This despite the fact we're below the high tide line, plus you legally have to allow a 20' right of way in VA. Sorry sea level rise is eating up your property, dude! I explained the law to him, told him "whatever, dude" and moved 20' down the beach. Not even two hours later I see the same dickhead riding his bike down the dock at my private marina, which is clearly and adequately posted all over the place "Private Property, Slip Owner's, Holders and Guests Only". He got a kinda dumb look on his face when he saw us.

The level of "doublethink" in this country is becoming truly astounding recently.

Rant off!

Screw it. Shoot the fucking thing next time it flies over YOUR PROPERTY.

Take up a new hobby... Falcon training.

http://books.google.com/books?id=fzvKeo ... er&f=false Wow the M19A. You could take a video of it while your taking it out and when you played it in slo mo it would look movie production, bits and pieces of the fuselage and wings being blown away.

Or do like Londoners did during the blitz. Build a net with monofilament line & send it up with helium balloons to snag his prop when he crosses onto your property.

I'm a pretty decent shot with my airguns but hitting a target which can fly over 100mph with a pellet gun is nigh on impossible!

http://www.pyramydair.com/p/Drozd-MP-66 ... -gun.shtml

judgepacker wrote:

I'm a pretty decent shot with my airguns but hitting a target which can fly over 100mph with a pellet gun is nigh on impossible!

http://www.pyramydair.com/p/Drozd-MP-66 ... -gun.shtml

That would do it.

Van wrote:

masonalannz wrote:As some of you folks who have been around for a while know, I have an asshole neighbor with a really fucking annoying model aircraft which he insists on flying over my house on pleasant evenings and nice weekends, totally fucking up my peace, quiet and sanctuary. I am working on dealing with it legally but the process is long and irritating - the law tends to protect assholes. The second time I went to chat to him about it, I was less than cordial and he responded by sending the cops over to my house claiming that I had assaulted him by throwing my bicycle at him, which was total fabricated bullshit. I have long speculated to my wife that he's probably a teabagger. Well guess whats flying out front of his house today? You guessed it, the usurped battle flag of the republic, symbol o' the teabagger. So, Mr. I don't wanna pay taxes is happy to send the taxpayer funded cops after his scary loud neighbor when they yell at him for being an annoying asswipe but doesn't want to pay for it. By libertarian all guns, all the time, teabagger rules shouldn't I be able to load my 870 with magnum waterfowl loads and shoot his irritating little toy out of the sky?

Next example. I spent the holiday weekend on the boat with family. The marina we keep it in is near a built up beach with public access between some of the lots. We took my son down to wade in the bay. We were in front of a group of beach houses, directly in front of one. The asswipe who owns the mortgage came out and told us we're on private property, that it's his back yard, he paid a lot of money for it and piss off. This despite the fact we're below the high tide line, plus you legally have to allow a 20' right of way in VA. Sorry sea level rise is eating up your property, dude! I explained the law to him, told him "whatever, dude" and moved 20' down the beach. Not even two hours later I see the same dickhead riding his bike down the dock at my private marina, which is clearly and adequately posted all over the place "Private Property, Slip Owner's, Holders and Guests Only". He got a kinda dumb look on his face when he saw us.

The level of "doublethink" in this country is becoming truly astounding recently.

Rant off!

Screw it. Shoot the fucking thing next time it flies over YOUR PROPERTY.

Van, that would make me a felon and then I couldn't own any guns.

judgepacker wrote:

I'm a pretty decent shot with my airguns but hitting a target which can fly over 100mph with a pellet gun is nigh on impossible!

http://www.pyramydair.com/p/Drozd-MP-66 ... -gun.shtml

I have considered this option. Not sure it would be effective.

Problem is that discharging a weapon within city limits can be illegal there.

I like the mono-filament net perimeter idea.

masonalannz wrote:
[edit] I'm a pretty decent shot with my airguns but hitting a target which can fly over 100mph with a pellet gun is nigh on impossible!

I don't know much about R/C airplanes but I'm pretty sure all you need is a remote with the same frequency as the one he has and you can crash it with out him knowing that you were at fault.