FARK.com: (2839490) Chicago Police Dept. has new high-tech helicopter with night vision and a radiation detector. Now, if only they can keep the pilot from landing it in front of a freight train

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		Chicago Police Dept. has new high-tech helicopter with night vision and a radiation detector. Now, if only they can keep the pilot from landing it in front of a freight train (suntimes.com)		82
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UberDave		2007-06-01 10:13:46 AM

Catch ya later!

JohnBEsq		2007-06-01 11:35:43 AM

JAFO

PolloDiablo		2007-06-01 12:06:37 PM

Trivia Jockey		2007-06-01 12:11:54 PM

PolloDiablo, that's the t.v. show. I think the headline refers to the movie, the one with Roy Scheider.

fireclown		2007-06-01 01:27:02 PM

It can hear a mouse fart at 500 meters.

Whateva_I_DO_WHAT_I_WANT		2007-06-01 01:28:23 PM

Follow my leader!

img.timezone.com

Frameous		2007-06-01 01:28:47 PM

Perfect time to revive Airwolf.

Mad Scientist		2007-06-01 01:30:11 PM

Sweet! Now they can really mess up female bartenders!

Zumaki		2007-06-01 01:30:23 PM

Rapmaster2000		2007-06-01 01:31:42 PM

Something, something MIEGS FIELD!!!

/obligatory

Cassata26		2007-06-01 01:32:30 PM

Wow... a Blue Thunder reference... and then a photo of Airwolf?

What a great Friday!

whconner4		2007-06-01 01:32:42 PM

Dude, only on Fark can you drop a Blue Thunder reference and have everybody get it.

Does this make us nerds? Or just really, really cool?

Whateva_I_DO_WHAT_I_WANT		2007-06-01 01:33:32 PM

absolute nerds get my vote

Septic Skeptic		2007-06-01 01:34:10 PM

Blue thunder sucked balls

Airwolf was teh awesome!

clayshea		2007-06-01 01:34:13 PM

Little news has been heard from Jan-Michael Vincent in very recent years. It is rumored that he retired from acting in the early 2000s and is now living in seclusion in Mississippi.

ObscureNameHere		2007-06-01 01:34:34 PM

Is it going to go silent and peek in women's apartments as they stretch in the nude?

/not that I remember that scene or anything....

PsyLord		2007-06-01 01:34:38 PM

PolloDiablo

Exactly what I was thinking... except for that scene in the movie where they were using it to... *ahem*... check on the welfare of a citizen.

I M Puffinstuff		2007-06-01 01:35:13 PM

Dude, only on Fark can you drop a Blue Thunder reference and have everybody get it.

Does this make us nerds? Or just really, really cool?

Nerds.

idrow		2007-06-01 01:35:34 PM

...showed off the new $2.1 million helicopter purchased with Homeland Security funds.

Homer: Oh...Patterson was right! I'm crashing and burning!
Crashing and burning!
Marge: How could you spend 4.6 million dollars in a month?
Homer: They let me sign checks with a stamp, Marge! A stamp!

fireclown		2007-06-01 01:39:42 PM

Let us not forget the Cello goodness.

Sinbad		2007-06-01 01:39:55 PM

Nerds.

This helicopter is not neccessary. There is no crime in Chicago.

Squidfartz		2007-06-01 01:40:55 PM

Back to base!

FormlessOne		2007-06-01 01:41:34 PM

Does this make us nerds? Or just really, really cool?

Nerds.

And, I went from "Blue Thunder" to "Airwolf" to Ernest Cline to "Ultraman" in about a second flat. I'm not sure if I should be proud or ashamed.

chechcal		2007-06-01 01:42:25 PM

Septic Skeptic: Blue thunder sucked balls

Airwolf was teh awesome!

DIAF airwolf fanboy!

www.rotaryaction.com

>>>

Bondidude		2007-06-01 01:42:34 PM

Chopper 4?

Frameous		2007-06-01 01:42:51 PM

I heard JMV was in a car wreck (or some kind of accident) and had severe damage to his vocal chords. Whish is evident to anyone who saw Buffalo 66.

Vaginal Wart		2007-06-01 01:42:55 PM

Wait, they haven't had any Police helicopters in Chicago since 1979?
Wow, wait till the citizens start to enjoy the fun that is spotlights lighting up the neighborhood at 2am. I miss that now that I no longer live in Orlando.

fireclown		2007-06-01 01:43:01 PM

Don't forget the Borgnine!

Frameous		2007-06-01 01:45:04 PM

Bondidude
YES!!!

I have been looking for a vid of that on youtube for the longest. I only saw it once, but it made me bust a gut.

farking_A		2007-06-01 01:45:35 PM

... powerful video cameras that can downlink pictures to Chicago's 911 emergency center and a searchlight.

Why would they want to 'downlink' pictures to a searchlight?

sofa_King_2006		2007-06-01 01:45:41 PM

I think if you can take the electronic guts out of K.I.T.T and put them in airwolf..

Well, It would have become self aware and started a mission on killing all humans.

On second thought, nix that.

drjekel_mrhyde		2007-06-01 01:46:53 PM

Always watching

Shadow Blasko		2007-06-01 01:47:34 PM

CHRIST.. You people are morons..

It's Aint Airwolf (Ultraman is airwolf though..)

www.rotaryaction.com

Its Blue Thunder!

/Had the same watch as Roy Scheider in that movie
//Now get off my lawn.

Shadow Blasko		2007-06-01 01:48:39 PM

Okay, well not *all* of you are morons.. Some of y'all had it right!

four95		2007-06-01 01:50:09 PM

sofa_King_2006		2007-06-01 01:50:16 PM

Shadow No, you pretty much nailed it on the head for me.

Takes a big man to admit that.

Rann Xerox		2007-06-01 01:51:17 PM

UberDave: Catch ya later!

Damn you, UberDave. Damn you to H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks!

/Thread Over.

drjekel_mrhyde		2007-06-01 01:52:50 PM

copter in question

Lousy_Smarch_Weather!!		2007-06-01 01:53:02 PM

I abso-freakin-lutely love that movie! Nice one, subby!

fireclown		2007-06-01 01:53:51 PM

And let us not forget Jean Scott flightsuit goodness.

RabidCanary		2007-06-01 01:55:57 PM

This helicopter can break the sound barrier.
www.garysdetecting.co.uk

Railroadfan		2007-06-01 01:57:54 PM

Thread for showing pics of trains around Chicago? WOOT WOOT!
Clicky da thumbnail:

lajimi		2007-06-01 02:00:31 PM

Now, if only they can keep the pilot from landing it in front of a freight train

And keep from beating the crap out of some tiny barmaid.

Billy Ligue		2007-06-01 02:17:46 PM

Ah Jan Michael Vincent.. the '70's squinting heartthrob...

what ever happened to him?

M Bison		2007-06-01 02:19:36 PM

JAFO!

jakobgrimm2003		2007-06-01 02:27:34 PM

Elwood: I bet these cops got SCMODS.
Jake: SCMODS?
Elwood: State County Municipal Offender Data System.

Ikam		2007-06-01 02:27:57 PM

So if I give them the coordinates of my neighbor who likes to mow her pathetic little 9x3 strip of grass with a gas powered lawn mower (do you really need a full lawn mower for that?) at 7am will they drop a laser guided missile on her?

oh wait, this is the CPD, they'd probably drop it on me for asking.

FeeltheIllinoise		2007-06-01 02:32:10 PM

waste of money. Put it into the CTA. They need it more.

BigDumbGuy		2007-06-01 02:35:31 PM

Well, Subby fails once again. The helicopter belongs to Cook County Sheriff Dept. and not the CPD. You know, Cook County Sheriffs are the people who wanted to be bar wench beating Chicago cops but did not make the cut. They settled for being a Cook County Sheriff.