Posted on 01/17/2011 1:14:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge
(Reuters) - A proposed unmanned floating airship surveillance system is being hailed by city officials in Ogden, Utah as one way to fight crime in its neighborhoods.
"We believe it will be a deterrent to crime when it is out and about and will help us solve crimes more quickly when they do occur," Ogden City Mayor Matthew Godfrey told Reuters.
The airship entails military technology now available to local law enforcement, he said.
Godfrey floated the idea of a dirigible in the skies above Ogden for his city council members last week. The council is expected to vote on the measure in coming weeks.
He says the cost of the blimp is being negotiated but said it is more "cost effective" to operate than helicopters or fixed winged aircraft.
"We anticipate using it mainly at night. The cameras have incredible night vision to see with tremendous clarity daytime and nighttime. It will be used like a patrol car. It will be used to go and check things out and keep things safe," said Godfrey.
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In Ogden?? In Ogden UT they need nightime surveillance??
Its one of the most wholesome places I’ve ever lived!
This blimp is a solution in need of a problem.
Any word on what types of ordnance they are going to hang on it?
None.
At first.
"...In Ogden?? In Ogden UT they need nightime surveillance??..."
We shared the identical sentiment upon reading the headline.
I find it difficult to believe a mountainous city with a modest population needs (or desires) constant airborne surveillance.
How tragic that bizarre and overreaching notion would even be raised.
dont you think they’ve been using this for years, along the border, for drug trafficking, etc. Maybe they’re counting Mormon wives out there, that would be about Napolitano’s speed
Will it detect polygamy?
My point exactly.
It’s an eye in the sky, not eye in the bed.
Don’t tell me. “Blimpie’s”. LOL!
The Hellion/Electric Eye - Judas Priest
Up here in space
I’m looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think you’ve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I’m watching all the time
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Always in focus
You can’t feel my stare
I zoom into you
You don’t know I’m there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
There’s nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Protected. Detective. Electric eye
It better be bullet-proof or Homie will take it out.
Good idea for Sacramento. It would eliminate the noise from all the police helocopters.
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