Only in America: Pennsylvania woman ordered to pay hundreds in damages after throwing rocks at neighbor's drone

A woman learns the hard way that she should not throw rocks.
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A Pennsylvania woman was ordered to pay $600 in damages for throwing rocks at a neighbor's drone. Martina Wlodarsky says she was merely acting in self-defense when the drone flew across her driveway. "It sounded like a weed-whacker or something coming at me at eye level," said Wlodarsky, 65. "It scared me." But a court ruled that the drone did not come near her, so she had no right to engage in anti-aircraft fire.

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