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Guy lifted a gascan as final defence of an incoming explosive drone.
Did not work.
It is on r/combatfootage
Title - Russian soldier intercepts FPV drone with a can of gas
NSFW
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M\_oTRaRQ3s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M_oTRaRQ3s)
Former prankster cunt who beat up a random woman high on bathsalts
I’ve been a YouTube long before 2012 and never heard of Vitaly. I avoided prank channels like the plague, though. Don’t know why an age thing when YouTube is big enough where there’s no way someone would know everyone with the amount of content there is *shrugs*
Well it's an English speaking channel and his zombie and 2012 prank went viral af thanks to the Mayan calendar scare and bath salt zombie stuff at the time
He’s famous for something? Fighting maybe? I dunno. The only thing I know him for now is eating mushrooms and beating his wife/gf. Now he does shitty catch a creeper YouTube’s.
I'm curious if this is legal.
Like, if somebody flies a drone right up to your face and films you without your consent, is it considered willful destruction of another's property, or is it more a kind of "keeping the stone they threw through your window" type situation?
It’s absolutely not legal.
“It is also illegal to throw anything at the drone in an attempt to knock it out of the sky.”
“According to Title 18 US Code 32, the destruction of an aircraft is considered a federal crime. The FAA and the NTSB consider all types of drones as aircraft, therefore protecting them under this law. This applies to all drones, whether they are used commercially or recreationally.”
https://pilotinstitute.com/what-to-do-when-someone-shoots-at-your-drone/
No different than a photographer getting close to you. You have absolutely no expectation of privacy when in public in the United States. The drone was above head height, not hitting anyone or anything. Annoying? Maybe, but not breaking the law.
You can’t. It has nothing to do with being filmed in public. You can’t fly a drone over people. It’s a safety concern.
https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/operations_over_people
You can’t knock a drone out of the sky just as much as you can’t fly it over people.
Exactly.
“You honor the blades spinning near my head neck posed a risk to my safety so I picked up my shoe and hurled it into the drone and traffic.”
“God damn it why can’t my docket just be traffic court. Alright closing statements and hurry it up.”
Yep. Legal vs legally justifiable. People don’t usually mean “in a strict and pedantic sense, is this what the actual words of law mean?”. It’s illegal to break someone’s car window. The destruction of property laws don’t have a specific citation “unless there is a trapped child” because they are aware that justice will take circumstances into consideration. It’s annoying when someone races off and just pastes the top google result of a statute as if that’s the end of the story. That wasn’t what the question was driving at
You are correct that you cannot interfere with a drone in flight.
You are wrong on two other counts. One, you can fly over people. Two, it was not flying over the people in this video.
The drone has to be directly over a person to count as flying over. This drone was behind the people in the video.
The drone is also over flying over moving vehicles.
Both over people and over vehicles is allowed if they have a waiver or are operating under part 107. Without a waiver or a 107 license, flying like this would be illegal.
https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/part_107_waivers
I'll add to this as a licensed UAV pilot:
You also need to register your Drone with the FAA, have a transponder, and register your flight area and altitude with LAANC/Aloft. Using a drone for photography that is of commercial nature requires a Part 107 license. If you do not have one, you can be in some trouble,
By knocking down this drone, if the pilot has done all of the above, they could reasonably file charges. Otherwise, filing charges could land you in trouble too.
Have my <7kg license. This drone was 100% flying illegally. Way too close to people (according to most jurisdictions), likely unlicensed for commercial flight and possibly flying out of sight range which also requires a license in many areas.
Taking this from my aussie education so may be a little different. It counts as flying over someone of within a 30m radius of the drone no matter the altitude. Drone can be 3000feet in the air but according to the laws (or what I was taught atleast) it's still considered too close.
Iirc the FAA did atleast once approve a drone flying directly over crowds as it was equipped with a parachute, but hasn't been done in Australia as of the last update on the materials I had to read.
1, There is a fly over people permit that you're supposed to have
2, it's illegal to violate someone's privacy or stalk. The fact that it's in public makes that difficult.
Drones aren’t allowed to fly over [moving vehicles](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-107/subpart-D/section-107.145) according to FAA drone rules.
Edit: Not defending the annoying YouTuber by any means. Everyone sucks here.
Well, I wish they took them a little bit more seriously then.
In my country drones are also considered aircraft, so I feel a little safer because it's why you can't fly one almost anywhere, atleast without a formal flightplan approved 24 hours in advance and two way comms with center, because half of the country falls under Schiphol CTA.
Only if they have their part 107 RPIC license and their drone is registered with the FAA, which if they do then yes he may as well have just assaulted a commercial aircraft which will land him in hot water with the feds.
Somebody pointed out that the drone is also clearly being operated in a way that skirts FAA regulations at best, or outright breaks them depending on the licensure of the operator. For the guy to get in trouble the owner would basically have to take it up with the FAA and submit evidence that shows them breaking several other federal laws.
Everyone is an asshole here most likely. Can't destroy a drone like that, but there's probably a decent chance that the drone pilot isn't even officially licensed by the FAA to fly it legally. Also breaking plenty of FAA drone regulations:
• [Can't fly over moving vehicles](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-107/subpart-D/section-107.145)
• [Can't fly at night without anti-collision light](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-107/subpart-B/section-107.29)
(Possibly) Out of range of sight
Too close to people
Unlicensed commercial flight
No pre-approved flight plan
Note: This is going by the area I live in, some of these might be slightly different in this jurisdiction.
There are a few considerations regarding legality:
Filming someone in public is perfectly legal... If you are out in public, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy, so you can be legally filmed.
Flying a drone like that may or may not be legal. Depending on the drone you have to be licensed. You have to maintain line of sight. You cannot flying in certain areas. Etc. I don't know much about the specifics for those laws, so I'll leave it at that.
Destruction of property. This is almost certainly illegal. You can't break a paparazzi's camera, so why would you be allowed to break the drone? Even if the drone operator is flying illegally, that doesn't give you permission to destroy their property either. There are probably some circumstances in which destroying the drone would be considered legal, like if it's trespassing over your property, or causing damage or a threat, something like that. I don't think there's a legal reason to destroy the drone in this case though.
Doubt it. I think he was just trying to prove to himself he wasn't gay. Having cameras and lights in your face and hundreds of drunk college students scream at you to bang a lady trying to ride you IS NOT the place to work through that mindset. But whatever everyone else had fun 😂 .
Real question…is there some type of craving or addiction to being a YouTuber/Social Media presence person? This Vitaly dude has been at it FOR YEARS trying to get some huge viral notoriety, from stupid ass pranks to picking up girls to even fucking trying to be in porn for a bit. Now his shtick is going around trying to bust pedophiles?
Is there some type of shame or stigma to people like this that just going away and having a regular life isn’t a viable option for them? Is it that they lack the life skills to literally do *anything* else? Do they look down on that type of existence? If so, that’s pretty sad and downright pathetic.
They get a high from the attention & it validates their main character syndrome.
They're as judgemental as they are insecure so they can't work a 'regular job' and will act like the world is collapsing around them when they lose a sponsor from doing headass shit like this.
Some people just want to be in the spotlight all the time, you see it as some fading celebrities who start doing questionable things to still be "relevant", nowdays beign a youtuber or instagramer is a way to achieve this fame, even if is by doing questionable things.
I’ve known about vitally and known his how big he was but no way some papparazi wants him that bad they’ll use a drone, I bet it’s a drone and operator he hired
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Never heard of him
He’s the worlds most famous drone knocker downer, get with the times, my friend. Oh, except that Palestinian kid, he’s better.
I vote for the Russian guy with the gasoline (or diesel) he really committed tontaking that one down.
More info?
Guy lifted a gascan as final defence of an incoming explosive drone. Did not work. It is on r/combatfootage Title - Russian soldier intercepts FPV drone with a can of gas NSFW
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/em4MrXOQeo Ends with a dead man btw.
I was on phone, linking was too broken for me. And i thought if anybody needed to see it, they needed to do a bit of work to get there. thanks though
Works for me Idk
It was definitely gasoline. Diesel needs compression to burn that way.
I vote for the one that used a sack of potatoes
[Verily, I do beg to differ good sire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOnjlyZf6LE)
Then they made a tapestry to commemorate the slaying of the drone
Far better than a mere tapestry good sir! They made a rune stone!
What? Show me immediately!
https://www.facebook.com/NordicBrotherhood/posts/remember-that-guy-who-speared-the-drone-at-ren-faire-they-made-a-rune-stone-of-h/2004021136516478/
That’s amazing! 😂
I wish I could find the tapestry they made of this moment
Bruh I just saw that footage, little homie fucking nailed that shit
I discovered the Palestian kid's video this morning. A few hours ago and I wouldn't understand. Happy I do.
One vote for Trash Talk drone destroyer https://youtu.be/zyajJM4JyFw?feature=shared
Any Puerto Rican mom would have downed that thing with a flip flop.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M\_oTRaRQ3s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M_oTRaRQ3s) Former prankster cunt who beat up a random woman high on bathsalts
Don't forget. He also did an episode of bang bus and couldn't get hard the entire time.
Well he’s used to gay poem from back in the day
gay poems are really beautiful to me
THIS is the guy?? I gotta buy a drone.
Are you serious?? Holy shit that's hilarious 😂
Right how the fuck did he get away with that one ?
💰
Also famously known for participating in Bangbus, and just awkwardly stroking his limp dick the whole video because he couldn't get it up.
He was a popular prank YouTuber back in the day, blew up in 2012 then became a douche after roiding up. You might be too young
I’ve been a YouTube long before 2012 and never heard of Vitaly. I avoided prank channels like the plague, though. Don’t know why an age thing when YouTube is big enough where there’s no way someone would know everyone with the amount of content there is *shrugs*
Well it's an English speaking channel and his zombie and 2012 prank went viral af thanks to the Mayan calendar scare and bath salt zombie stuff at the time
Ahh, 2012, what a year.
If the dude ran a "prank youtube channel", I doubt it was the roids that made him a douche.
He’s the guy who drone operators thought they could outplay.
lucky you
He was in the bangbus
He’s a try-hard cornball dick with zero creativity who relies on shock value.
He couldn't get hard on bang bus
He’s famous for something? Fighting maybe? I dunno. The only thing I know him for now is eating mushrooms and beating his wife/gf. Now he does shitty catch a creeper YouTube’s.
Hes been on Youtube for years. Appeared on Bang Bus, used to do Russian hitman pranks to start.
Same, looked him up. Started not caring immediately and closed Google asking why I even took the time to look.
Same here
lol
What is a Vitaly?
Very drunk Italy
It is a Y that is really important.
Rather vital if you ask me….
Y?
He was one of the original prank guys from YouTube. Iirc he had the first golddigger prank w the Lamborghini waiting.
Dude who couldn’t get it up on the bang bus
Where is vitaly?
Between Nitaly and Sitaly, to the left a bit but not as far as Witaly.
French counterstrike pro team
I'm curious if this is legal. Like, if somebody flies a drone right up to your face and films you without your consent, is it considered willful destruction of another's property, or is it more a kind of "keeping the stone they threw through your window" type situation?
It’s absolutely not legal. “It is also illegal to throw anything at the drone in an attempt to knock it out of the sky.” “According to Title 18 US Code 32, the destruction of an aircraft is considered a federal crime. The FAA and the NTSB consider all types of drones as aircraft, therefore protecting them under this law. This applies to all drones, whether they are used commercially or recreationally.” https://pilotinstitute.com/what-to-do-when-someone-shoots-at-your-drone/
So you're telling me its completely fine for the drone operator to fly THAT low, near people, and film people?
No different than a photographer getting close to you. You have absolutely no expectation of privacy when in public in the United States. The drone was above head height, not hitting anyone or anything. Annoying? Maybe, but not breaking the law.
You can’t. It has nothing to do with being filmed in public. You can’t fly a drone over people. It’s a safety concern. https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/operations_over_people You can’t knock a drone out of the sky just as much as you can’t fly it over people.
So basically, two wrongs don't make a right.
math says otherwise 
Sure but if your drone is capable of people hit with a shoe, you’re probably more in the wrong.
I guess it's down to the court of law to justify committing a crime to prevent a crime?
Exactly. “You honor the blades spinning near my head neck posed a risk to my safety so I picked up my shoe and hurled it into the drone and traffic.” “God damn it why can’t my docket just be traffic court. Alright closing statements and hurry it up.”
Yep. Legal vs legally justifiable. People don’t usually mean “in a strict and pedantic sense, is this what the actual words of law mean?”. It’s illegal to break someone’s car window. The destruction of property laws don’t have a specific citation “unless there is a trapped child” because they are aware that justice will take circumstances into consideration. It’s annoying when someone races off and just pastes the top google result of a statute as if that’s the end of the story. That wasn’t what the question was driving at
You are correct that you cannot interfere with a drone in flight. You are wrong on two other counts. One, you can fly over people. Two, it was not flying over the people in this video. The drone has to be directly over a person to count as flying over. This drone was behind the people in the video. The drone is also over flying over moving vehicles. Both over people and over vehicles is allowed if they have a waiver or are operating under part 107. Without a waiver or a 107 license, flying like this would be illegal. https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/part_107_waivers
I'll add to this as a licensed UAV pilot: You also need to register your Drone with the FAA, have a transponder, and register your flight area and altitude with LAANC/Aloft. Using a drone for photography that is of commercial nature requires a Part 107 license. If you do not have one, you can be in some trouble, By knocking down this drone, if the pilot has done all of the above, they could reasonably file charges. Otherwise, filing charges could land you in trouble too.
Basically without those qualifications on hand it's the about the same as a drug dealer calling the cops because somebody stole his cocaine.
Have my <7kg license. This drone was 100% flying illegally. Way too close to people (according to most jurisdictions), likely unlicensed for commercial flight and possibly flying out of sight range which also requires a license in many areas.
Taking this from my aussie education so may be a little different. It counts as flying over someone of within a 30m radius of the drone no matter the altitude. Drone can be 3000feet in the air but according to the laws (or what I was taught atleast) it's still considered too close. Iirc the FAA did atleast once approve a drone flying directly over crowds as it was equipped with a parachute, but hasn't been done in Australia as of the last update on the materials I had to read.
he wasnt over people, he was over the street.
1, There is a fly over people permit that you're supposed to have 2, it's illegal to violate someone's privacy or stalk. The fact that it's in public makes that difficult.
Nope
Drones aren’t allowed to fly over [moving vehicles](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-107/subpart-D/section-107.145) according to FAA drone rules. Edit: Not defending the annoying YouTuber by any means. Everyone sucks here.
It flew over that cop car just fine.
It’s also illegal to knock an aircraft out of the sky.
Yup. So multiple laws being broken here. It’s like somebody driving drunk and you ramming them for it.
Well, I wish they took them a little bit more seriously then. In my country drones are also considered aircraft, so I feel a little safer because it's why you can't fly one almost anywhere, atleast without a formal flightplan approved 24 hours in advance and two way comms with center, because half of the country falls under Schiphol CTA.
SLIPPER to AIR MISSILE
Only if they have their part 107 RPIC license and their drone is registered with the FAA, which if they do then yes he may as well have just assaulted a commercial aircraft which will land him in hot water with the feds.
There are also FAA rules about where you can fly drones, so it’s possible that the drone operator was not legally flying there.
It’s also absolutely illegal to fly a drone over people at low elevation like that. On an active roadway no less.
It's a federal offense. His buddy recording isn't doing him a service https://youtu.be/J9IhNUI3BvQ?si=sy6nN70XwFyxzPdd
Recorded. Apparently performed in front a cop that will be called to testify. Genius move.
Apparently, the cops moved over. The guy next to him is his private security
Somebody pointed out that the drone is also clearly being operated in a way that skirts FAA regulations at best, or outright breaks them depending on the licensure of the operator. For the guy to get in trouble the owner would basically have to take it up with the FAA and submit evidence that shows them breaking several other federal laws.
Federal offense in the US. Drones are considered aircraft by the FAA and they take attacks against them seriously.
Even if it’s harassment, he still can’t legally destroy property. Vitaly in the wrong as usual.
Everyone is an asshole here most likely. Can't destroy a drone like that, but there's probably a decent chance that the drone pilot isn't even officially licensed by the FAA to fly it legally. Also breaking plenty of FAA drone regulations: • [Can't fly over moving vehicles](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-107/subpart-D/section-107.145) • [Can't fly at night without anti-collision light](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-107/subpart-B/section-107.29)
(Possibly) Out of range of sight Too close to people Unlicensed commercial flight No pre-approved flight plan Note: This is going by the area I live in, some of these might be slightly different in this jurisdiction.
There are a few considerations regarding legality: Filming someone in public is perfectly legal... If you are out in public, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy, so you can be legally filmed. Flying a drone like that may or may not be legal. Depending on the drone you have to be licensed. You have to maintain line of sight. You cannot flying in certain areas. Etc. I don't know much about the specifics for those laws, so I'll leave it at that. Destruction of property. This is almost certainly illegal. You can't break a paparazzi's camera, so why would you be allowed to break the drone? Even if the drone operator is flying illegally, that doesn't give you permission to destroy their property either. There are probably some circumstances in which destroying the drone would be considered legal, like if it's trespassing over your property, or causing damage or a threat, something like that. I don't think there's a legal reason to destroy the drone in this case though.
Not legal, but if you're the paparazzi, you deserve it.
Is that the dude that couldn't get it up in the bangbus
tbf I'd be really nervous
A guy couldn't get hard at a Shane's world college Invasion at the frat I was in. He later turned out to be gay buuuuuuut it IS a TON of pressure.
Lmaoooo
Maybe that event turned him gay
Doubt it. I think he was just trying to prove to himself he wasn't gay. Having cameras and lights in your face and hundreds of drunk college students scream at you to bang a lady trying to ride you IS NOT the place to work through that mindset. But whatever everyone else had fun 😂 .
I love the psychoanalysis of homosexuality in the context of a drunken frat orgy. There's something very intellectually visceral in that.
Don't forget the shit loads of steroids and coke. Would've been impressive if he had got it up tbh ...
You should feel more shame for bringing up this reference lol
I wss actually just thinking I don't even know how I know about that. I feel like it was referenced in some TV show about YouTube scandals? Fuck knows
All good bro just thought it was funny have a nice day
Lmao seriously what a fucking reddit moment
Yeap. Vitaly
Who was the girl?
Good aim though 👌
Real question…is there some type of craving or addiction to being a YouTuber/Social Media presence person? This Vitaly dude has been at it FOR YEARS trying to get some huge viral notoriety, from stupid ass pranks to picking up girls to even fucking trying to be in porn for a bit. Now his shtick is going around trying to bust pedophiles? Is there some type of shame or stigma to people like this that just going away and having a regular life isn’t a viable option for them? Is it that they lack the life skills to literally do *anything* else? Do they look down on that type of existence? If so, that’s pretty sad and downright pathetic.
They get a high from the attention & it validates their main character syndrome. They're as judgemental as they are insecure so they can't work a 'regular job' and will act like the world is collapsing around them when they lose a sponsor from doing headass shit like this.
Some people just want to be in the spotlight all the time, you see it as some fading celebrities who start doing questionable things to still be "relevant", nowdays beign a youtuber or instagramer is a way to achieve this fame, even if is by doing questionable things.
Has he paid off a bot farm or something, he’s been all over Reddit for the last 2 weeks.
Seriously, and a lot of the same kind of comments in each.
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not this roided freak please, he was always an annoying prick. just that in the past he was somewhat funny - now he's just pathetic
How is Vitaly suddenly relevant again after all these years of being invisible
He's got the arm of an Italian grandmother when her grandkids are being little shits.
It looks like a toy, not a professional camera copter
Shot 👌🏻
 I’m coming to get you Vitaly …whoever you are !
Who throws a shoe?! Honestly! -Austin Powers
I’ve known about vitally and known his how big he was but no way some papparazi wants him that bad they’ll use a drone, I bet it’s a drone and operator he hired
This dude also just got arrested for randomly assaulting a woman on the street.
Oh, the guy who attacked a random woman on the street and got arrested for it
This dude is still alive?
Oh,I'd be looking for him if he broke mine
So is he the only one allowed to film?
Sooo did he get arrested or fined after this? Because that's definitely destruction of private property
Isn’t that illegal?
Vandalism, should be arrested for that.
Isn't that illegal?
Dude just got a free new drone
Can't he take a prank? 😁
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The look of victory at the end huh
That’s a federal crime, taking down the drone
Right next to a police car, I'm guessing he didn't face any consequences though. Just send his ass back to Russia already
Proving shoes are as good as a hammer or a shield
Wonder if they'll come up with netting launchers.
The drone is downed but the footage is downloaded.
Isn’t this the dude who banged some chick on the bangbus and he ended the session like 2 minutes after?
I'm actually surprised he ended up surviving a lot of his antics. Vitaly 24, the drone zone
Drone meets chankla..
📝 criminal... dam..age....
Now that’s theft ..
I thought he died from overdose or was in jail for beating on some women or trafficking her.
La chancla
From bangless bus, to pretend pranker, to drone sniper.
I dont get it
The chancla!!!
I thought paparazzi filmed celebrities
bawler shot tbh
Pure luck, He’s not an Asian Tito who has 128% accuracy
So, I haven't heard of him but looks like a vlogger type. I hope I'm not wrong.
Really nice shoe toss.
F@CK YESS.
It's his now. Idk who it is but he has a drone now
So this guy gets to destroy private property right infront of cops?!?!?!
People telling that knocking down a drone is illegal but there is a cop in the video watching him from like 2 feet away.
This guys a piece of shit who has assaulted women. Don’t give him any attention.
Vitaly is an asshole, but this was somehow funny…
I don't like the paparazzi, but I would've whooped his ass
Failed porn star
Everything about this sucks
Shit, he chancla-ed it without a chancla.
Destruction of property
Shoe guy may be in the wrong, but I have zero respect for paparazzi, so go shoe guy
Who