Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices

Necrotica writes "An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind the U.S. Defence Department's false espionage warning earlier this year. The odd-looking — but harmless — "poppy coin" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP."

Comments

Re:Canada vs. US

[tomstdenis]

No, that's we're not blatantly paranoid and knee-jerk reactionaries.

Also that we remember our histories lessons, and that a "red poppy looking flower" is probably A POPPY!!!

Tom

Oblig

[yabba-dabba-do]

I for one welcome our new nano-tech coin overlords!

Re:wow

[theguyfromsaturn]

Actually Remembrance day WWI not WWII. The poppy is a reference to "In Flanders Fields". The battle of Vimy Ridge and the battles of the Flanders were defining moments in Canadian history and the transition from British colony to nation.