Andrea Mears charged after assaulting teenager who flew drone over a Connecticut beach

THIS is what happens when you fly a drone taking pictures over a beach — you get called a pervert and allegedly assaulted. See the video.

WHEN you fly a drone over a beach what do you expect?

Austin Haughwout, 17, was attacked by a woman who called him a “little pervert” for flying his drone over Middle Beach in Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, Connecticut.

A video from Haughwout’s phone, posted on LiveLeak, shows 23-year-old Andrea Mears confront the teenager after calling State Environmental Conservation Police.

Mears says: “Stop, stop, stop, this guy is taking pictures and trying to upload them from a camera. Can you guys get here?

“Can you guys hurry? I already talked to them, just come!”

Charged with assault ... Andrea Mears, 23, reacted furiously after she saw a drone flying over a beach she was at. Picture: Webgrab Live Leak

As Haughwout grabbed his remote and his drone and tried to leave, Mears is seen pulling on the neck of his shirt and clawing at his face while swearing at him.

Haughwout shouts out: “You’re assaulting me, you a@#wipe!”

The video then starts moving around frantically and there are several thud sounds before Haughwout falls to the ground.

“Yeah, that’s right (inaudible) you pervert,” Mears is heard saying.

The video then shows her grabbing Austin by the collar of his shirt and trying to reach her arm to his face, but Austin is leaning away from her.

“Yeah, you want to take pictures?” she screams as she sticks her fingers in his mouth and then takes a few wild swings with her free arm. “Yeah, you’re going to see how it feels when the police come.”

She then tells Haughwout to let her go.

“If you weren’t assaulting me I wouldn’t be touching you,” he replies.

“Maybe you shouldn’t be taking pictures of people on the beach!” she answers and throws another unsuccessful punch. “I’m going to beat you’re a--, you little motherf----r.”

The deranged encounter continues with Haughwout, now with a shirt torn across the front, pleading for someone to contact the police and then asking his assailant if she wants to stop. Mears pauses and says no.

The video then ends.

Mears was charged with third-degree assault and breach of peace charges over the incident on May 12.

Haughwot, who was not charged, told FOX CT that he was flying a radio-controlled quadcopter with a GoPro camera attached at least 15 metres in the air and he wasn’t taking any intimate images of anybody.

Mears, who will appear in Superior Court in New Haven on June 19, stated that Haughwout assaulted her, but police ruled that he acted in self-defence.

“Though [Haughwout] may have hit Mears at some point in the incident, it appeared to be while he was defending himself and attempting to get away from the attack,” EnCon Officer Robert Monday wrote in his report.

Haughwout told FOX CT that he was glad he had recorded the ordeal on his phone.

“If I didn’t I think I would have been arrested,” he said.