I'll make a fortune selling these photos
Reported in Australian news on Thursday that a man was to be fined $850 for flying a drone above the scene of a siege in Melbourne's western suburbs recently.
Police were apparently negotiating with a man holed up in a house during a nine-hour siege, when the drone crashed into a power line and fell to the ground, nearly hitting an officer.
Police confiscated the drone and handed the case to CASA to prosecute.
As might be expected, CASA said they believed it was a member of the public trying to get pictures of the police operation.
"[It] hit a power line and [he] lost control of the drone, which really emphasises the danger of taking drones to inappropriate places like situations where emergency services are working"
Combine greed, thoughtlessness and a modicum of stupidity and the possibilities for disaster are unlimited.