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MadMonkey, I think your list is just excuses and bull. Just because the neighbor can poke a camera over the fence, doesn't mean any camera that can see over the fence is okay. There is a difference between incidental view of a backyard and hovering to record is not trivial. You mention way point navigation, unless the guy was walking around on guard duty with his shotgun, the drone was hanging around for a while and he had time to see it and then go get his shotgun. That isn't just a pause in navigation. There might be other reasons, but not that one. I agree that pulling out shotguns is extreme, but so is assuming all air space is open with no restriction, IMO. The law isn't well defined on this so we'll see what happens in coming years.

For those concerned, I would simply recommend to get some sort of cast net with weights that can be thrown a reasonable distance. You may still have issues with catching or damaging a drone that way, but no one will be able to claim their drone was at high altitude if a hand thrown net caught it.

On the other side, I realize that modern cameras can zoom in from a long way and still get good detail. We have security cameras at work that do pretty good. Not sure how all drone stuff will shake out legally, but I do think there needs to be some limits most especially on distribution of the video/images.