The method demonstrated in the video is problematic for a commoner like me to apply, since it not only comes with serious electrical hazards when handling the high voltage capacitor in the microwave, but it also comes with the risk of endangering other peoples electronics, causing fire hazards or affecting radiological infrastructure that is protected by law.
Our entire house, containing eight households, are furious at our neighbors living across the street, because they are flying their drone up to our windows and hover. It is equipped with something that resembles a lens.
I'd shoot it down, but that leaves a trail and is not subtle. I really don't want to risk my gun "career", since I want to get licensed for heavier caliber sometime next year.
The police don't do nothing about it, since it's not illegal to maneuver in populated areas. It's neither directly illegal to film people, even though they indirectly could be charged with harassment. I don't have or want to spend the funds for a civil lawsuit.
Not a lawyer and have just a very locally soecific anecdote, but, I know in my home town there was a case where a dude liked to chill naked in his back yard behind his huge privacy fence. A Karen climbed a tree near his property to photograph him and took him to court. The judge wound up threatening her, citing some statute like she went through "extensive effort" or something to be able to see it, that he was not plainly visible and could expect privacy.
In my experience cops mostly just want everyone to shut up and say whatever they think will make that happen. Maybe consult an attorney? Seems like flying a drone to your window is pretty extensive effort to get a view where you should be able to expect privacy.
Learn falconry, buy and train falcon to attack drones.
More seriously those cheaper drones can be taken down fairly easy, especially hovering in one spot. Honestly a few shots from a cheap airsoft gun should do the trick. Or if you can figure out the model, you can get a controller for it, then as it gets close, your controller will take over as it would be the stronger signal. I'm assuming it's a cheaper model as any serious enthusiast wouldn't use their drone like this, and cheap models have very basic signals, MAYBE it would have 2 channels to switch back and forth from? So you get the model controller, take over control, land it in your yard and turn it off. Who knows what happened to it after that?
Buy a bit of paracord, make a simple net, toss as appropriate.
Paintball markers are also cheap, reasonably accurate and don't involve yeeting a bullet on a ballistic arc.
If it's getting that close, pick up a super soaker (or other suitably high powered squirt gun) and load it up with salt water. Consumer drones tend to have little to no waterproofing.
Hell if it's a regular thing you could hang a net of fishing string from above your window, propped out some by sticks.
The drone would tangle and fall, or tangle and hang.
If they routinely fly up to your windows and hover there you can get a Co2 powered net gun, the kind they use on wildlife. It'll run you about 650-700 up to a 1000 bucks for a kit - but a net is a pretty good way of dealing with a drone.
When the cops ask you why, tell them that your neighbor is spying on you. While it is not illegal to fly a drone around someone's house, it is illegal to spy on you.
ETA: We need some serious re-examination of airspace laws in the USA. I think if you own your property, and you own and pay taxes on all of your house up to the very top of it, then you should own the airspace within that area. Otherwise if the airspace isn't yours do you need a permit from the FAA to build a 2-story house in "their" airspace?
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