VANCOUVER POLICE EXPERIMENTING WITH CHEAPER ALTERNATIVES TO SEATTLE'S AERIAL DRONES

CITY OFFICIALS:  "DRONE AIRCRAFT ARE EFFECTIVE, BUT WE'LL HAVE TO MAKE DO WITH SOMETHING LESS EXPENSIVE"

Detective Norvis Ardefusser demonstrates the lightweight
surveillance aircraft the agency is testing 

"We discovered an inexpensive lightweight airplane, but it doesn't fly very far and if we mount a camera to it, the darned thing drops like a rock.  On the other hand, unlike Seattle PD's drone, if ours crashes, we just go raid the printer and make another one."
Detective Norvis Ardefusser, Vancouver Police