‘He has a history of flying his drone low over my yard to tease my dog’: Entitled drone owner tries to take dog owner to court after doggo destroyed his drone, resulting in karmic restoration

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Sep 2, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Entitled people are the best, sure, they believe that they deserve everything in the world, but also they also let that belief get the better of them, resulting in some of the most hilarious mishaps imaginable. As in the case of today's story where an entitled neighbor who persistently flies his drone low over our pawdorable protagonist's garden finally gets his comeuppance as the doggo our story centers around decided to take down the drone that had been driving him loopy for a long time. This heroic canine had finally put that flying spy camera on the ground where it deserved to be.

But of course this was unacceptable to the entitled neighbor (of course they cannot be satisfied, ever) and a whole heap of mess ensued in the funniest and most righteous way possible, all because one courageous canine stood up to the mind-bending metal bird that was driving him up the wall.
 

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    Not sure what to do. Earlier today my neighbor came pounding on my door screaming obscenities and shouting at me. When I finally got
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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  • A nice technicality there from this clever dog momma. And seriously this man with his drone, what a nonce (British for stupid). If you are the kind of person who obviously uses your drone to fly around residential areas in hope of ‘seeing something’ then yeah, you should be awake that your drone will land in someone’s yard, and if it does so, you’d better distance yourself from that drone as much as possible.

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    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?
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    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
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    called the police to complain once before, he was doing "fly bys" over my dog and getting very close to hitting him. The
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    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.
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    Update A small update to my neighbor flying his drone in my backyard and attacking my dog:
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    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
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  • Honestly, we would love to see a courtroom reality show exclusively from the Small Claims court, because it just seems to be the place where the most unhinged and entitled humans go to resolve the pettiest of disputes with heaping helpings of mismanaged morality. But what comes next is just delicious, if we say so ourselves. 

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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    don't know the weight of his, but it definitely is at least a few pounds. They took my information and I have called me back once,
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    so I know they're investigating but don't know anything else. Not sure if they'll tell me anything anyways.
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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).
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    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.
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    The only thing that could make this better is if the FAA finds a reason to fine him or take away his drones.
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