If you’ve treated yourself to a shiny new drone recently, please don’t fly it in areas where law enforcement agencies are likely to get jumpy at the sight of an unidentified aircraft.
An American man has just received a criminal citation for buzzing a drone around the Washington Monument and crash-landing it on the Ellipse, the busy public park just over the road from the President’s house.
The pilot wasn’t arrested but did have his drone confiscated. Authorities say it’s the ninth time an unmanned aircraft has been flown in a national park in the Washington area in 2015.
