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Nice Planet IX: Oh that's just GREAT...

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St. Clown said:
I'm ready to shoot down all planes flying over my house because I know they're just hauling gov't agents and dropping ninjas.
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Drones. But, constitutionally, what/where is the border between my air and the public's air rights?
 
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joecct said:
Drones. But, constitutionally, what/where is the border between my air and the public's air rights?
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Great question.

Before the advent of air travel, landowners owned an infinitely tall column of air rising above their plot. (The Latin doctrine was Cujus est solum ejus usque ad coelum, or “whose is the soil, his it is up to the sky.”) In 1946 the Supreme Court acknowledged that the air had become a “public highway,” but a landowner still had dominion over “at least as much of the space above the ground as he can occupy or use in connection with the land.” In that case the court held that a plane flying just 83 feet in the air—the commotion was literally scaring the plaintiff’s chickens to death—represented an invasion of property. The justices declined to precisely define the height at which ownership rights end. Today, the federal government considers the area above 500 feet to be navigable airspace in uncongested areas. While the Supreme Court hasn’t explicitly accepted that as the upper limit of property ownership, it’s a useful guideline in trespass cases. Therefore, unless you own some very tall buildings, your private airspace probably ends somewhere between 80 and 500 feet above the ground.
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Is it just me, or does it look like the chick in the passenger seat next to him is laughing?
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Yeah, that bugged me too. To be in character she should have been a brood sow with 3 kids screaming in back, and a NOBAMA shirt.
 
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