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The blimp caused a stir when it came up during a Jan. 11 city council meeting, making the news nationwide, including NPR and a Jay Leno monologue. Planned at 52 feet long and 4 feet in diameter to hold a 20-pound payload of cameras, GPS gear, and telemetry, the blimp will likely be the first to patrol the skies of an American city, according to Greiner and UCAID. Greiner has been consulting with other cities that have real time crime centers and would like to do the same with the blimp, but no luck. "Nobody else has a blimp," he said.
..."We're not interested in filming the city's 80,000-plus population," Weloth said. "Just the ones causing trouble."
If this blimp accomplishes anything worthwhile, it will probably be to force at least some crime off the streets and indoors, where it will be more difficult to catch on camera. Other than that, good golly Miss Molly, what an incredible waste of taxpayer money!
I suppose the shooter would claim it was a UFO, which I suppose is plausible.
That would be funny.
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