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Silly String Goes to War Against IEDs

Posted by samzenpus on from the silly-to-serious dept.

Luban Doyle writes "In an age of multimillion-dollar high-tech weapons systems, sometimes it's the simplest ideas that can save lives. Which is why a New Jersey mother is organizing a drive to send cans of Silly String to Iraq. American troops use the stuff to detect trip wires around bombs, as Marcelle Shriver learned from her son, a soldier in Iraq."

7 of 460 comments (clear)

  1. KarmaKarmaKarmaKarmaKarmaChamelion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I come when blown
    I come when Bloooooooowwwwwn!

  2. Doing my part by lazycam · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A "Supa String Blaster" for every man, woman and child. http://www.chickenshop.co.uk/acatalog/props/smalli mg/SM22223sm.jpg

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    my mom posts on slashdot.
  3. JAPS ATTACK PEARL !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sneaky little devils. I predict their defeat within four years.

  4. Re:This was on The (Internet more than) 2 days ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lol---Windows fanboys.

  5. Re:simple ideas... by /dev/trash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Come back when you learn how to spell.

  6. Re:New in the war on terror by kdemetter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    why is parent modded troll ?

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  7. You Lose, Weincoff by trublaha · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    <joke xmlns:Operagost = "http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Pe dophile"
                    xmlns:u = "http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Un funny">
            <u:deprecated>
                    <u:punchline>
                            <Operagost:left-wing-elitist>
                            <![CDATA[
                                    Yes! Let's pull out immediately and leave all those worthless brown people to step on mines and be brutalized by terrorists!
                            ]]>
                            </Operagost:left-wing-elitist>
                    </u:punchline>

                    <u:reason>
                            Unfunny sarcasm made worse through the use of retarded XML. Please replace with comments by apolitical smart-arse.
                    </u:reason>
            </deprecated>

            <u:punchline>
            <![CDATA[
                    <right-wing-elitist>
                            Yes! Let's keep charging blindly on without any idea of what we're doing, so that we can get this out of the way and find more worthless brown people to step on our mines and be brutalized by our soldiers!
                    </right-wing-elitist>
            ]]>
            </u:punchline>
    </joke>