We had an interesting morning.
A buddy of mine owns a nice UAV and he is just learning how to use it. He offered to bring it over and give us a demonstration. He flew over our building and flew a circle around the building. We are VERY close to the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigations headquarters. They are the folks that investigate state crimes. Someone saw the UAV and decided it might have sinister intentions and they sent the lead investigator and his partner over to check us out. So in walk two cops with gold badges, and guns on hips.
They ask if we were flying over their building and I said nope, but come on back and we will show you what we are doing. They were totally cool. We showed them the pictures and the flight path. They said there is no law at all about shooting photos of their building which we knew. We have photos of their building from when the ground was scraped off to start construction. We have pictures of the area long before anything was built. We shoot new photos of it all the time and there is zero they can do to stop us.
As I said they were interested in what we can do and we asked if they wanted to see it fly.
So here are two cops, my buddy, my co-worker and myself. They ended up swapping business cards with us and we told them we would be happy to help them out any way possible. It is always good to have cops that are friends.
