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Posted: **Wed 29th Apr 2009 06:14 am**

Cannabis-Catching Chopper

Dutch police unveiled the brand new "Cannachopper" on Tuesday, the latest addition to their crime-fighting arsenal. The unmanned mini-helicopter is fitted with diagnostic and surveillance instruments allowing it to detect cannabis plants from the air.

The Organized Crime Task Force developed the chopper, which can stay in the air for hours at a time. The Dutch police are hoping to make great strides in their bid to uncover illegal cannabis plants.

The cultivation of the plant is a big business in the Netherlands, with profits estimated to have reached over €2 billion in 2008 alone. Only around 10 percent of the crops are sold legally in the country's many coffee shops, according to the Dutch police. The vast majority of it is smuggled abroad.

German police in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia greeted the Dutch invention, saying that most of the hash and marijuana smuggled into Germany comes from the Netherlands.

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Crime fighting, my ass! Like cannabis is such a BIG crime. If you see one of these things flying around, bring it down in a fireball!

Posted: **Wed 29th Apr 2009 08:05 am**

i'll give 10 dollars to the first person who can shoot one of these things down.

Posted: **Wed 29th Apr 2009 12:04 pm**

Clayman wrote:i'll give 10 dollars to the first person who can shoot one of these things down.

its amazing why they even bother. every time law enforcemnt brings out a new technology, crime reacts by uprating their tactics too. same with every type of crime.

all this means is people will grow commerically under the gound surely?

which im sure happens alot anyway.

oh well what ever keeps them hapy.

Posted: **Wed 29th Apr 2009 12:41 pm**

since I live near, I will have an eye on that....if I see one, well, bad luck for the heli

edit:
to be honest, this could really do something, because the outdoor-season is very important to the whole export-thing, much of the outdoor-grown stuff will go to germany since its a bit cheaper than the indoor so dont underestimate that.

Posted: **Wed 29th Apr 2009 01:19 pm**

Sweet.

Anyone into Radio Controlled dogfighting? Either go down the kamikazee route or perhaps the robot wars one. Either way it could be a LOT of fun.......

Edit - or investigate the potential for jamming the controls.

Posted: **Wed 29th Apr 2009 01:58 pm**

doobydave wrote:Sweet.

Anyone into Radio Controlled dogfighting? Either go down the kamikazee route or perhaps the robot wars one. Either way it could be a LOT of fun.......

Edit - or investigate the potential for jamming the controls.

you mean a software-crash? what a nice imagination

Posted: **Wed 29th Apr 2009 02:18 pm**

Lordy, what a waste of money.

Posted: **Wed 29th Apr 2009 06:57 pm**

Great target-aiming device. Use shotguns! ^)

Posted: **Wed 29th Apr 2009 10:35 pm**

BB guns or slingshots will take that little shitbag down

Posted: **Wed 29th Apr 2009 11:54 pm**

im quite good at clay pidgeon shooting

Posted: **Wed 29th Apr 2009 11:57 pm**

yeh my .22 hasnt been put to use in awhile!!!

Posted: **Thu 30th Apr 2009 06:25 am**

A dissassembled microwave oven, a wrapping paper tube, some tin foil, and a little luck is all I need. Oh, it will happen.

Posted: **Thu 30th Apr 2009 08:39 am**

MH, that reminds me of something i would have read in "The Poor Man's James Bond"

fuckin may have been for all i remember, we always focused on the recipes for things that cost us all our eyebrows that one summer when i was 14.