Originally Posted by
Cyclosaurus
Understood, but to date, common law has not protected anyone who has destroyed a drone and statutory law resulted in them arrested and liable for damages. You may like your chances, and being a lawyer yourself, you may be able to prevail, but for most of the people who are doing the chest-thumping about smashing drones out of the air, it would cost them plenty whether they were to win or lose, and their chances aren't going to be as good. It's a risk I personally would not take.
Can you supply references of people being arrested for destroying a drone. When I google it I see people being arrested for shooting the drone which is the same as illegally firing a firearm in an unsafe manner. And there are people who have been arrested for attacking the drone operator. Do you have any references where somebody destroyed a drone on his private property without resorting to firearms and is arrested. The chimp doesn't count because technically he was already behind bars.