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Have you ever seen the blimp on television when you’re watching a football or baseball game and think to yourself, “Hey, they must have an amazing view of the game.”
Now say you don’t have a blimp anchored outside your home, but you happen to own a personal drone equipped with a video camera. What sporting event would you fly over? Game seven of the World Series? The Super Bowl?
For Nigel Wilson of Nottingham, England, it was English Premier League soccer games, and as a result of his actions, Wilson ended up behind bars.
Wilson is scheduled to appear in Westminster Magistrates Court on April 16 to answer to 17 counts in connection with his purported flight activity. Metropolitan Police charged Wilson with violating the United Kingdom’s Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) Air Navigation Order 2009, which banned operators from flying their drones in London’s eight royal parks, according to Engadget. The police report mentions Wilson flying near the Queen Victoria Memorial, which is close to one of the Queen’s favored London residences, according to the report.
The Air Navigation Order also mandates that pilots remain within 400 vertical feet and roughly 1,500 horizontal feet of the aircraft and cannot fly drones in areas with more than 1,000 people, which Wilson was also violating when he flew over some seven soccer stadiums. Soccer stadiums can hold up to 60,000.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday March 21 2015, @11:57PM
No -- behind bars is more generic. You can be behind bars after arrest, but before trial. Maybe there is some idiomatic use that means "convicted" but it hasn't penetrated my consciousness and so nothing about the description confused or mislead me.