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Pentagon Developed 'Laughing Bullets'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-must-not-have-a-hysteria-gap dept.

plasmadroid writes "It might sound like a joke, but documents unearthed by New Scientist show that the Pentagon actually funded research into 'non-lethal' bullets that would also hit a target with a dose of laughing gas. That way, they'd not only be stunned but incapacitated by fits of giggles. Another idea was to put stink bombs inside rubber bullets. I guess it would work, but the idea of crowds of rioters giggling uncontrollably while being pelted with rubber bullets is truly bizarre..."

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  1. Why do we need the gas? by east+coast · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know I laugh every time I pull the trigger.

    That's just the way we roll, in my hood.

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    Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
    1. Re:Why do we need the gas? by 0olong · · Score: 3, Funny

      And all your homeys also read /. in their parents' basements, don't they?

    2. Re:Why do we need the gas? by east+coast · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually, it's out on the front stoop since we got wireless and all. With our 40s of Bawlz. Yeah, booooooyy!

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      Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
    3. Re:Why do we need the gas? by homey+of+my+owney · · Score: 2, Funny

      So, to incapacitate the enemy when you approach, you say "Two guys walk into a bar..."

    4. Re:Why do we need the gas? by Alranor · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or alternatively

      Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!...
      Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.

    5. Re:Why do we need the gas? by clickclickdrone · · Score: 1, Funny

      >"Two guys walk into a bar..."
      And one says 'Ouch, that never used to be there!'

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      I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
    6. Re:Why do we need the gas? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I prefer "A baby seal walks into a club..."

  2. ...Oblig by Karganeth · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can't have manslaughter without laughter!

  3. The Joker by boristdog · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Joker is working for DARPA now?

  4. Re:freedom? by Fizzl · · Score: 5, Funny

    The freest and most democratic country on Earth

    LOL
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    Bot Assisted Blogging
  5. Hee Hee Hee by SEWilco · · Score: 4, Funny

    crowds of rioters giggling uncontrollably
    They're called "Jokerz".
  6. This is not a laughing matter... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    See... this is why the terrorists will laugh in your face!

    If they use this, FOX will finally be able to show all those crowds of happy Iraqis it always brags about...

  7. Re:freedom? by jandrese · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obviously not, lead is toxic to the environment.

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    I read the internet for the articles.
  8. Failed Stink Bomb Bullets by SirStanley · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Stink Bomb Bullets Project was scrapped because of the ineffectiveness against Hippies.

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  9. Re:Safe for entire range? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    The moral is to always wear safety goggles when you're out rioting!

  10. Ob(ligatory) Monty Python by rlp · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the "Killer Joke" skit:

    "All through the winter of '43 we had translators working, in joke-proof conditions, to try and produce a German version of the joke. They worked on one word each for greater safety. One of them saw two words of the joke and spent several weeks in hospital. But apart from that things went pretty quickly, and we soon had the joke by January, in a form which our troops couldn't understand but which the Germans could".

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  11. Ahh.. Slashdot viral marketing.. by bigattichouse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can't you see the rioting/giggling meme is just part of the viral marketing for the next Batman movie!?!?

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    meh
  12. Re:Ok, then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, then how bout the country that god obviously loves the most.

  13. In addition.... by Guerilla*+Napalm · · Score: 4, Funny

    to the laughing gas version, they're also working on a bullet filled with laxatives - but that story was probably started for shits and giggles. *** I'll get my things ***

  14. Re:freedom? by JK124 · · Score: 2, Funny

    LOL LOL LOL! O Shit! I've been hit!