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<blockquote data-quote="BrianSC" data-source="post: 103859" data-attributes="member: 17104"><p>Something like that happened to me last spring. I was at the beach, flying my Spark and taking some areal footage of a friend, about 150 meters away from the nearest building which is a beach café/restaurant, and about the same distance from any groups of people, so completely within the law and regulations of recreational drone flying in Spain (I live here). All of the sudden, and elderly British tourist (woman) crossed the very wide beach running towards me, and when she reached me I could tell she was very very angry, accusing me (in English, not in Spanish) of invading her privacy. When I stated, politely in HER language, that I had no interest in taking areal footage or photos of her, she then accused me of putting her grand children in great great danger flying my extremely dangerous drone so close to them. She also said that I had been filming the children on the beach. I seriously doubt that the kids bathing about 250 meters away from me were here grand children. Any way, while the Spark was hovering over me, I reminded her of how many mobile phones could have taken photos of her, and the children on the beach, that same morning without her knowing, to which she almost shouted: NOT FROM THE AIR!</p><p>So... in order to end this silly discussion, I took out a printed copy of the Spanish drone regulations from my bag (which I always carry with me just in case) and handed them to her and asked her to read them in case she was having doubts if I was breaking the law, and I also told her that in case she thought I was breaking the law and was invading her and her grand children's privacy or putting them in danger, then I would be willing to let her use my mobile phone to call the police. She did, of course, not read the Spanish drone regulations that I was still holding in my hands, and turned around while she told me I was being silly, and walked way still complaining about how people like me are a constant threat to children and everybody's privacy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrianSC, post: 103859, member: 17104"] Something like that happened to me last spring. I was at the beach, flying my Spark and taking some areal footage of a friend, about 150 meters away from the nearest building which is a beach café/restaurant, and about the same distance from any groups of people, so completely within the law and regulations of recreational drone flying in Spain (I live here). All of the sudden, and elderly British tourist (woman) crossed the very wide beach running towards me, and when she reached me I could tell she was very very angry, accusing me (in English, not in Spanish) of invading her privacy. When I stated, politely in HER language, that I had no interest in taking areal footage or photos of her, she then accused me of putting her grand children in great great danger flying my extremely dangerous drone so close to them. She also said that I had been filming the children on the beach. I seriously doubt that the kids bathing about 250 meters away from me were here grand children. Any way, while the Spark was hovering over me, I reminded her of how many mobile phones could have taken photos of her, and the children on the beach, that same morning without her knowing, to which she almost shouted: NOT FROM THE AIR! So... in order to end this silly discussion, I took out a printed copy of the Spanish drone regulations from my bag (which I always carry with me just in case) and handed them to her and asked her to read them in case she was having doubts if I was breaking the law, and I also told her that in case she thought I was breaking the law and was invading her and her grand children's privacy or putting them in danger, then I would be willing to let her use my mobile phone to call the police. She did, of course, not read the Spanish drone regulations that I was still holding in my hands, and turned around while she told me I was being silly, and walked way still complaining about how people like me are a constant threat to children and everybody's privacy. [/QUOTE]
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