Foreigners arrested for flying drone over Cambodian PM's home

[geovalin]

Pech Sotheary

Two foreigners were let off with a warning yesterday after flying a camera-equipped drone near Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house in central Phnom Penh.

American Todd Brown, 39, and French national Gilles Sainsily, 35, were arrested by officers in front of Wat Lanka at about 10am, questioned and released just after 5pm, said Phnom Penh municipal deputy police chief Sim Vuthy.

Vuthy said the pair wasn’t charged, but were warned to get prior approval before operating unmanned aerial vehicles in the city.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flight-control-foreigners-told-not-drone

[humqdpf]

Given the tendency of things electronic to go wrong or be hacked, it is always possible for those desk-jockey pilots in Arizona or wherever they bask to get the coordinates wrong and wipe out the PM's house.

[realenglish1]

I commend the Cambodian authorities for handling this case expeditiously. Cambodia just went up a notch in my belt.

Here in Thailand you would have been locked up and the key thrown away for violation of order 44

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flying drone over Cambodian PM's home

flying a camera-equipped drone near Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house

So which was it? "Over" the P.M's house or "Near" it?

[quandow]

How the HELL could they have thought anything good would come of such a STUPID act?!? Alcohol driven, perhaps? These weren't kids . . .

[eeeya]

i suggest they fly a drone over any PM's house and see what happens. Invited in for tea n cake perhaps?

oh the stupidity

[khwaibah]

i suggest they fly a drone over any PM's house and see what happens. Invited in for tea n cake perhaps?

oh the stupidity

Try that stunt near to the US white house and you will get a cavity search second to none.

[CapeThai]

How the HELL could they have thought anything good would come of such a STUPID act?!? Alcohol driven, perhaps? These weren't kids . . .

Boys will be Boys...??

[Fullstop]

I suspect they didn't fly it "over" the PM's house at all. That's just a journalistic dramatic headline. The story says "near" ... and if we really found out the facts ...it was probably just in the same "neigbourhood" ... in a local park.

[oneday]

Candidates for the Darwin Award.

[ggt]

I am so glad these two drone flyers where shutdown before the Cambodian PM's private business showed up on an internet porn site...

[chicowoodduck]

Stupid people do stupid things....most likely escaped from a local Wal*Mart????

[Sheryl]

The house in question is right opposite Independence Monument and a small park...and the PM virtually never actually stays in it. Quite likely they were unaware of it and just aiming for the Monument or making use of the park.