Kentucky is a pure comparative negligence state, which follows the Restatement (3d ed.) of Torts. Being a trespasser doesn’t define the duties owed. Foreseeablity is the touchstone for duties. It’s, also, a state where there are many hunters, gun owners and people who hold traditional values.

Mr. Merideth has produced two witnesses who state that the drone was flying below the tree line. His teenage daughter was sun bathing in her bikini of their home’s backyard deck, where she had expectations of privacy. That’s what appears to have attracted the drone owner-operator’s interest (although he denies that, it being happenstance that he chose to fly low and slow over a young backyard bikini babe). She’s said that she went inside and the drone left, only to return when she went back out. By then, her father had been alerted, gotten and loaded his shotgun. These facts could make for interesting jury instructions. I suggest:

“A perv and his drone are soon parted.”