A Huntington Beach-based drone company has filed a police report against a local man after he used his T-shirt to swat a $1,350 drone to the ground.

Mike Luzansky of Lucky7drones said the man destroyed the copter while the company was filming an instructional video.

An online video of the incident that Luzansky put up has since racked up more than 100,000 views on YouTube and LiveLeak.

Lucky 7 Drones moved from Las Vegas to Huntington Beach six weeks ago with the hopes of opening an Orange County storefront sometime this summer. Company employee Jordin Schmitt was flying his pricy DJI Phantom 3 drone Wednesday near Pacific Coast Highway and 13th Street, hovering the vehicle three feet above the street, when a shirtless man approached.

The video shows the man yelling that he’ll be angry if “you put that over my house.” He then smacks the drone out of the air, letting it shatter on the ground. “I don’t even think that’s legal.”

Drone flying is unregulated by the Federal Aviation Administration. Some cities have regulated or banned it, but Huntington Beach has done neither.

The Lucky7drones folks called the police and said they wanted to press vandalism charges against the man. They also said they may take the man to small claims court.

“People are like, why are you flying in the middle of the street, but we weren’t flying high or up and down the street or over people’s homes,” said Luzansky. “We were just showing off the (drone’s) sensitivity control.”

Huntington Beach Police Lt. John Domingo said the man who swatted the drone told police he was scared that the drone operators would use the device to spy on him in his home. Domingo said when it comes to drone flying, he would like to see respect and common sense exercised by both drone operators and the general public.

“But the most important thing is that (drone operators) understand they pose an extreme danger to (police) air operations,” Domingo said.

Police investigated the incident, but the man, whose name was not released, has not been arrested. The District Attorney’s office will decide whether to file charges, police said.

Luzansky said there is nothing good about losing a $1,350 drone, but admitted that traffic to the company’s website, lucky7drones.com, had jumped since video of the incident hit the web.