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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."

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  1. And in a pinch by WormholeFiend · · Score: 0, Redundant

    they can also use the silly string can with a lighter as an improvised flame thrower!

    After all, the Geneva conventions don't apply when you're fighting terrists

  2. Re:New in the war on terror by soft_guy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    WHOA! SOmeone not claiming our soldiers are morons, on this site? Thats new.
     
    Whatever. I havn't seen anyone claim that, ever. It isn't the soldiers fault they're fighting a pointless war that their leaders forced them into. They volunteered.
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    Avoid Missing Ball for High Score
  3. Re:IED? by Simon80 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, the government uses acronyms for everything, but why?

    1. Think of a longer, more technical sounding way to say something like booby trap
    2. Substitute an acronym in for the phrase when you find yourself repeating it
    3. ????
    4. Profit!

  4. How proud and how stringee by Sad+Adam · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So...Monkey Boy et al sprayed Silly String before going into Iraq in 2003, huh? Once they knew there were no WMDs to be had, in he sent and in went the barbarian hordes...