So after a few weeks of owning a phantom had a few beers with my buddies, got stuck in traffic for 15 minutes before I decided to send the drone out of the trunk of my car and see what the hold up was... Caught some crazy footage ... Thoughts? Should I not have recorded this? Legal? Illegal?
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Please don't drink and drive. Our families use those roads too.
Generally speaking, one is prohibited from flying/operating while under the influence, over emergency work and populated areas.
All's well that ends well however an already bad scene could have become worse if you had crashed on top of them.
Although newsworthy, we as LE try to protect the privacy and dignity of victims from this type of thing. Even news crews are asked to stay back a respectable distance and refrain from showing gore out of respect and the ability for us to notify next of kin rather than have families see it on the live news feed or youtube.
If at all physically possible under your described scenario, an LE, I personally would have tracked you down and arrested you for disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, reckless endangerment, interference with emergency services, failure to yield to emergency services, and DUI.
I would then search your car for towing(for inventory purposes of course)and then contacted the appropriate agency for flight and airspace penalties.
Now, I suspect this is an attempt to stir, as anyone with any decency and common sense wouldn't do as you posted.
However you asked for feedback and now have it.