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Dogs To Sniff Out Smokers

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has turned to "tobacco detection canine" teams to sniff out workers sneaking away for a smoke. Careless smoking by workers inside the former Deutsche Bank building is blamed for the Aug. 18, 2007, fire that killed two firefighters. "This is just one part of the project team's multifaceted approach to ensuring that all site regulations are strictly followed and enforced," said LMDC spokesman Mike Murphy.

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  1. Shampoo by Wiarumas · · Score: 4, Funny

    This idea was invented by Shampoo.

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    1. Re:Shampoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      In Soviet Russia, shampoo is invented by Idea.

  2. Re:So they sniff out tobacco... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So chemical crystallized substances should be fine?

  3. Will it hold up in court? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Really Lassie? Bobby was smoking by the water cooler? And he put out his cigarette the wrong way?"

  4. Re:dogs? by JustOK · · Score: 2, Funny

    unless they "victim" is a cat person

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  5. Re:So they sniff out tobacco... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about smoking weed with a vaporizer, would that pass the fire codes? :)

  6. Re:dogs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It wouldn't be a Friday night otherwise.

  7. Dog training 101 by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is how I trained the dogs to do this important work.

    Step 1: Get dogs addicted to cigarettes
    Step 2: Withhold cigarettes
    Step 3: Dog goes apeshit when it detects cigarettes

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  8. Eeek by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    As long as these dogs only recognize tobacco and not salvia divinoooooooh fuck my room is a cosmic tomato careening toward God's infinite theatre and jesus is a mime with a giant glass-domed brain for a head whooooooaaaaaaa

  9. Re:Lunch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You're going in the dog house buddy.

  10. I Love Smokers by bgman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sometimes life can be tough. But if I'm feeling a little battered and see someone on a smoke break - outside in the 120 degree heat of a Phoenix summer, I always feel better. At least I'm smart enough to not pay good money to look stupid, smell bad and destroy my lungs in an effort to enrich a tobacco company that wouldn't urinate on me if I caught fire using their product.