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Pulling the terrorist card is pretty cheap and probably why the downvotes. LEO cannot be expected to be prescient of every crime or we will become a surveillance state much worse than we already are.

I agree that common courtesy would dictate that you inform the public, but it's not a requirement and not something that should become law.

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That’s exactly my point. Be courteous and tell people what you are doing so they don’t have to be concerned. It’s this kind of behavior that triggers creation of laws because some people are jerks that push things too far. I watched this with camera drones in national parks. First they were fun but then idiots had to fly them all the time, over crowded areas, lose them in protected areas, wild fires and airports and now we have restrictive laws.

I doesn’t seem to be acceptable that somebody is flying pretty heavy drones every night without anybody knowing who or why.

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