It sounds like a lot of fun. I hope our town passes this, too.
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DEER TRAIL, Colo. (CBS4) â A tiny town in Coloradoâs Eastern Plains is declaring war on drones. The town of Deer Trail plans to begin issuing drone hunting licenses if a controversial ordinance passes Tuesday night.
Deer Trail resident Phillip Steel, whose house is surrounded by no trespassing signs, wrote the ordinance to protect individual privacy rights.
âWe donât want a surveillance society here.â Steel said.
Steel says drones are too powerful and too intrusive. He fears drones will become more prevalent in the skies in the coming years, but admits he hasnât ever seen a drone flying over Deer Trail.
âRight now we donât have drones flying in our skies, great. We want to keep it that way.â
So Steel authored the first ever âno-drone zoneâ ordinance which gives individuals with licenses the right to shoot down a drone flying over Deer Trail with a shotgun. Deer Trail also plans to offer a cash bounty for pieces of shot down drones, which they will call trophies. (Read the Ordinance)
âIf you donât want your drone to go down, donât fly in town.â Steel said. âThatâs our motto.â
Deer Trail Mayor Frank Fields agrees with Steel and believes the Drone hunting ban will pass.
âUsing it against terrorists is okay, but we donât need to be using it in our little towns, peeking in windows and stuff,â Fields said.
Fields says the proposed ordinance is âkind of real, kind of tongue-and-cheek.â He sees the ordinance as an opportunity for revenue. He says 157 people have already signed up to be the first to get a drone hunting license at $25 each. He also thinks drone hunting could bring tourists and souvenir shops to Deer Trail.
âWe need business, we need money,â Fields said.
The mayor is considering holding drone hunting events if the new ordinance passes.
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/08/05/ordinance-would-allow-for-drone-hunting-in-deer-trail/
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DEER TRAIL, Colo. (CBS4) â A tiny town in Coloradoâs Eastern Plains is declaring war on drones. The town of Deer Trail plans to begin issuing drone hunting licenses if a controversial ordinance passes Tuesday night.
Deer Trail resident Phillip Steel, whose house is surrounded by no trespassing signs, wrote the ordinance to protect individual privacy rights.
âWe donât want a surveillance society here.â Steel said.
Steel says drones are too powerful and too intrusive. He fears drones will become more prevalent in the skies in the coming years, but admits he hasnât ever seen a drone flying over Deer Trail.
âRight now we donât have drones flying in our skies, great. We want to keep it that way.â
So Steel authored the first ever âno-drone zoneâ ordinance which gives individuals with licenses the right to shoot down a drone flying over Deer Trail with a shotgun. Deer Trail also plans to offer a cash bounty for pieces of shot down drones, which they will call trophies. (Read the Ordinance)
âIf you donât want your drone to go down, donât fly in town.â Steel said. âThatâs our motto.â
Deer Trail Mayor Frank Fields agrees with Steel and believes the Drone hunting ban will pass.
âUsing it against terrorists is okay, but we donât need to be using it in our little towns, peeking in windows and stuff,â Fields said.
Fields says the proposed ordinance is âkind of real, kind of tongue-and-cheek.â He sees the ordinance as an opportunity for revenue. He says 157 people have already signed up to be the first to get a drone hunting license at $25 each. He also thinks drone hunting could bring tourists and souvenir shops to Deer Trail.
âWe need business, we need money,â Fields said.
The mayor is considering holding drone hunting events if the new ordinance passes.
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/08/05/ordinance-would-allow-for-drone-hunting-in-deer-trail/
