A woman in Westbrook, Connecticut, is facing assault charges after an altercation with a 17-year-old flying a drone at Hammonasset State Park last month.
Andrea Mears, 23, is accused of assaulting Austin Haughwout on May 12 after she noticed Haughwout was flying a quad copter with a camera attached over the Middle Beach at Hammonasset in Madison.
Haughwout captured the alleged assault on video using his phone.
David Obrizzo · Top Commenter
And that's a perfect example of why I live on the East coast. I guess we are too "passive" to go around "a shooting up the joint" every time we feel our rights are being violated weather they really are or not. Tha'ts such a childish, base mentality to say that a gun can solve all your problems. Bang bang..I hope you land in prison before you gun down some innocent person knocking on your door because they have the wong address..Stay in Arizona...please..... Bang bang..keep it classy Pistol Pete..
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Wow. She's very off balance. Doctors should make sure she STAYS on her meds. She seems to have an aversion to PECTUREZZZZZZZZZZZ!!
She should have arranged a tryst between the quad copter and her beach towel ... help them get well acquainted.Let's stick with the lapine for now and see where it gets us.
Rabbit-like (ala Watership Down?)? Or "lupine"?
NEW HAVEN — A woman accused of attacking a teen who flew a camera-equipped drone over her head at the beach was granted a special form of probation Wednesday.
Andrea Mears, 23, of Westbrook was granted accelerated rehabilitation, a program designed for first-time offenders. If she successfully completes the program, her charges could be erased.
This is one of the people we warn our kids about, they look like normal people but have no sense in anyone doing something legal that they do not approve of.