PRIVATE DRONE CATCHES LIQUOR THIEF

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a drone pilot was standing outside The Vault restaurant. He had been taking some “beauty shots” of downtown Tulsa. The pilot, David Bell, and a man he was talking to watched as another man crawled out of a broken window of the restaurant, carrying two bottles of scotch. Bell sent his camera drone up and followed the guy to a nearby park bench across the street, where he shared the hooch with another man. Cops arrived, and Bell was able to direct the police right to the boozy burglars. They were oblivious to the drone above them. Officers arrested the two men, one for public intoxication and the other for the break-in.
* I know what you’re thinking: beauty shots of Tulsa?
* The restaurant is called “The Vault”? Seriously? How about “The House of Broken Windows, Feel Free to Take Anything”?
* Who needs Batman when you’ve got private citizen drone pilots?
* Whoa! How do we not have a TV show about a guy who solves crimes with his drone?
* Add a speaker to the drone. “This is your conscience! How could you have stooped so low? What are you doing with your life?”
* I think this story is a plant by the government to make us like drones more.
* Why does the guy standing on the ground operating this thing get to call himself a drone pilot?
* That’s like working in Mission Control in Houston and calling yourself an astronaut.
* The drone operator later quit when he realized he couldn’t it fly it high enough to make Tulsa look pretty.