Woman getting dressed in 26th floor apartment terrified by peeping drone
Source: KIRO-TV
Updated: 7:21 a.m. Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | Posted: 7:21 a.m. Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Woman getting dressed in 26th floor apartment terrified by peeping drone
By Linzi Sheldon
KIRO-TV - Seattle
SEATTLE
A high-tech Peeping Tom terrified a Seattle woman getting dressed in her apartment.
Lisa Pleiss spotted the drone just before 8 a.m. Sunday and reported it to her concierge, who called Seattle police.
It was freaky, she said. You don't expect to be walking around indecent in your apartment and have this thing out there potentially recording you.
When Pleiss grabbed her camera to a take a picture, she said the drone seemed to react.
It, like, swooped out of frame immediately, really quickly, she said, which made me think they were looking at me because they were reacting to my actions.
Pleiss lives on the 26th floor of her building, which is in downtown Seattle at the corner of Terry Avenue and Stewart Street. She shes never had to worry about someone looking through window before. She called down to her concierge, who spotted two men operating the drone.
Read more: http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/national/woman-terrified-drone-outside-her-window/ngRWN/
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)C Moon
(12,180 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,076 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)for just such occasions.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)and aim downwards
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Warpy
(110,744 posts)Also water balloons if the operators were in range on the street.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)would be lethal if it hit someone.
I thought Seattle had declared itself drone free
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Though what ever is used and/or the drone would fall a long way which would be pretty dangerous.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)put it down for the count.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)this kind of thing would happen. Just like no one could have guessed that if you give people a small, easy to use camera, some of them will use it for up-skirting . . .
Auggie
(31,025 posts)I'll do everything in my power to bring it down and smash it into a thousand pieces.
lululu
(301 posts)C Moon
(12,180 posts)Drone Destroyed at L.A. Kings Celebration Recovered by LAPD (VIDEO)
http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2014/06/16/drone-destroyed-at-la-kings-celebration-recovered-by-lapd-video
Xithras
(16,191 posts)One Supreme Court ruling declared that airspace is the public domain, and another put the upper limit of your property rights at whatever level the air ceases to be used and occupied by your ownership of the land. If someone is buzzing your house below your treeline, they're trespassing and you can deal with it however you like. If the tallest thing on your property is the 15 foot high peak of your house and a drone owner flies over at 100 feet (and there are court rulings placing the lowest levels of public airspace at only 80 feet), then shooting one down would not only be a federal felony, but will probably get you successfully sued by the drone owner.
Uncle Joe
(58,029 posts)Living inside your home is one thing, standing in your yard, where anyone could see you is another.
Airspace may be in the pubic domain but viewing inside a person (s) home is not airspace, that's an invasion of someone's privacy.
Xithras
(16,191 posts)At a bare minimum, the highest point on your property is the lowest point that a drone can legally fly. If they're flying around your yard and peeking into your windows, it's paintball time!
Generally speaking, the laws covering drone window peeks are the same laws that regulate looking through your neighbors window with a telescope. It's typically considered to be a criminal invasion of privacy to peer in through someones door or windows, whether or not a drone is involved.
NutmegYankee
(16,169 posts)I go for walks at night and many homes have front windows unblocked or doors open and one can easily see inside. I myself usually have the front door open this time of year. It helps with airflow since so few have AC.
I just make it an obvious note to myself to not walk naked through my living room if the blinds are up.
Xithras
(16,191 posts)I can't speak to all states, but here in California our criminal invasion of privacy law requires one of three things in order to escalate a benign "glance through the window" into a criminal activity: 1) Trespassing onto the victims property (you can't walk up to their house and look in the windows). 2) The use of a telescope, binoculars, or some other device to view something that wouldn't normally be visible to the unaided eye. 3) The use of video recording equipment when full or partial nudity is involved.
The use of a drone to peek in someones window would, at a minimum, qualify as #2, but could easily qualify as all three. I would presume that most states have similar statutes on the books.
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Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Assassin drone with poison darts instead of hitman. It's unavoidable.
DemoTex
(25,334 posts)A little bitty drone collides with a jumbo jet, with high body count. The TV screams "WHY!? HOW!?"
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)and one of them was with an aircraft.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Was also equipped with some explosives. No idea if it can be done in practice, given weight consstraints and all, but I suspect that somebody who wants to do it will be able to find a way.
Bette Noir
(3,581 posts)What are they mad at her for?
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)wouldn't be happy.
BumRushDaShow
(126,616 posts)because of the hovering helicopters, notably not long after some contract helicopter (am thinking google or equivalent) was in the area doing street mapping updates.
Playinghardball
(11,665 posts)that the next time it entered 'our' airspace it would be meant with buckshot.. We've never seen or heard it again...
LMAO...
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)smh
freeplessinseattle
(3,508 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Lionel Mandrake
(4,072 posts)It appears to be a remote-controlled helicopter.
Xithras
(16,191 posts)That's a bottle delivery drone. There are a couple of hotels in Vegas and the SF Bay Area that are using them to deliver wine and other bottled drinks to customers. You can actually see two bottles in the undercarriage of the drone, and it's identical to the one that the hotel in Sausalito (Calif) uses.
Either someone in Seattle is getting into the bottle delivery business, or the reporters pulled a stock or Internet photo to use for the story.
ECHOFIELDS
(25 posts)IS THERE A DRONE IN YER FUTURE?
AS A PEEPER...
OR A PEEPEE?
thesquanderer
(11,937 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)VScott
(774 posts)there were telescopes for this sort of thing.
christx30
(6,241 posts)climbing a tree and using binoculars. Plus there is no risk of falling out the tree, having my son from 30 years in the future get hit by a car and nearly negate his existence. I hate it when that happens.