Sometimes in the Netherlands you see the most cutting edge, futuristic, bizarro ideas become reality. So I wonder if anyone flinched when they read in the newspapers over the weekend, that the police department expects to have its first flying police cars within the next 5 years.

Flying police cars, well, its not quite a car. It is more like a little one person smart car with a propeller that can unfold and take the little car up into the sky. The idea is that with all the traffic problems on Dutch highways, police have to be able to get around more quickly and the use of helicopters is too expensive and limited as to where they can land. More commonly referred to as a gyrocopter, the first prototype will be tested in two years and the police expect to be using the first commercial version by 2012.

No where in the article do they talk about using these things in cities. Considering all the tram lines, I doubt the flying police could get far anyway.