Unauthorized Drones Over American's Skies: 'Mysterious' Drone Shows Up At Conneticut Car Crash Site - Police Are Bewildered & FAA Launches 'Investigation'

Drone with GoPro camera mounted underneath: Soon everyone who can afford one will
have one. (Photo by Don McCullough)

By Jordan Valinsky
A mysterious drone buzzing around a fatal car cash in Connecticut has prompted an investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. Authorities are concerned about a man that they spotted patrolling a flying robot over an accident scene Saturday while bodies were still in the car, reports Fox Connecticut News.

According to a police report obtained by the news outlet, police are questioning the safety and idiocy of why someone wanted to do this. It’s more than likely that what the man was doing with the camera-equipped drone was illegal since operating a drone at a crime scene is in violation of FAA regulations. However, the laws surrounding private operations of drones remain hazy.

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US Drone Attacks A Wedding Party in Yemen: 17 Reported Dead, Dozens Injured.

Predator Drone. (Photo: Don DeBold)

Another devastating demonstration of the United States policy of Signature Strikes, where drones are used to kill people even when the United States has zero certainty of who the people are.  In this case 17 members of a wedding party in Yemen are annihilated while driving in a convoy. In a pitiful act of self-justification, the names of only two of the victims are provided to the media: Saleh al-Tays and Abdullah al-Tays — both alleged to be on a Yemeni government list of "wanted Al-Qaeda suspects." This is not the first time: the US has previously killed innocent civilians attending weddings, collecting scrap metal, harvesting crops, and even children gathering firewood.

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Yemen Wedding Convoy Strike Highlights Civilian Drone War Toll

Yemen wedding convoy strike highlights civilian drone war toll (via AFP)

A drone strike on a wedding convoy in Yemen killed 17 people, mostly civilians, medical and security sources said Friday, adding grist to mounting criticism of the US drone war. "Some" of the dead in Thursday's strike near the central town of Rada were…