Former "Dirty jobs" host Mike Rowe confronted a drone in the nude with a shotgun that awakened him while it was video recording near his house.

However, while Rowe pumped the shotgun he did not pull the trigger.

"I froze, because I could see the video that might very well appear on the local news, (with considerable blurring, naturally.) The same video that might soon appear on my mother's computer screen, along with the headline -- 'Dirty Jobs Guy Totally Loses It -- Gets Naked and Shoots Drone From San Francisco Skies,'" Rowe wrote in a Facebook post about the incident last Tuesday. "Somewhere, in the logical part of my brain, it occurred to me that nothing good can come from an angry B-list celebrity standing on his deck with no clothes and a loaded shotgun."

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Instead he simply took a photo of the peeping drone as proof of the occurrence.

Rowe hopes the image he took is all that emerges and that whatever video was captured is not released.

"I sincerely hope not, but I know it's out there, and there isn't much I can do about it but make sure -- if the unthinkable occurs -- that you can all say you heard it here first," Rowe said.

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