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Marine Mammals Used To Fight Terrorism

pinkstuff writes "The Navy unveiled its terror-fighting marine mammals at a two-day homeland security and disaster preparedness exercise in California this week. From the article: 'A Navy seal — actually a sea lion — took less than a minute to find a fake mine under a pier near San Francisco's AT&T Park. A dolphin quickly located a terrorist lurking in the black water before another sea lion, using a device carried in its mouth, cuffed the pretend saboteur's ankle so authorities could reel him in.' Queue the 'frickin lasers' jokes."

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  1. Be carefull by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    You could be training them or more sinister proposes...heh, yeah that was bad. And by bad I mean AWESOME.
    This is a great movie:
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    1. Re:Be carefull by element-o.p. · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, he did it on porpoise.

      (Actually, what he typed was wrong in either case: "proposes", as in, "He proposes to his girlfriend tonight.").

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  2. Re:Marine Life Kicks Ass by durrr · · Score: 4, Funny

    We need a new enviromental protection agency to protect us from the enviroment.

  3. Re:Sharks by Kell+Bengal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Surely you mean dolphins with frick'n lasers?

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  4. Re:*CUE* the 'frickin laser' jokes by nemasu · · Score: 2, Funny

    #include #include void main() { std::queue Q; Q.push_back("Need more frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads!"); Q.push_back("mutated sea bass?"); Q.push_back("Well, it's a start"); return; }

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  5. A tense situation by djconrad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Marine mammals used to fight terrorism? Why did they stop?

  6. locating terrorist by bagofbeans · · Score: 4, Funny

    A dolphin quickly located a terrorist

    Shouldn't TSA be given this detection technology to, ya know, help 'em out a little?

    1. Re:locating terrorist by Barrinmw · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Sir, will you please jump in this large tank of water so that the dolphin can scan you."

  7. Queue by mcsqueak · · Score: 3, Funny

    I love it when my 'frickin lasers' jokes are in nice, orderly lines... ;)

  8. Re:Sharks by Gravitron+5000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    By the way, it might seems like sharks + lasers is scarier than dolphins + handcuffs, but just wait until they decide that cuffing random swimmers is hilarious.

    ... or one dolphin that is into bondage slips through the screening.

  9. Re:Marine Life Kicks Ass by christianT · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow! From zero to crazed activist in three posts. I think this is a new record!

  10. mIRC even has a built in script for it! by AVryhof · · Score: 3, Funny

    /me Slaps Terrorists around with a Fish

  11. Re:Cute application, but why? by sumdumass · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yep, it sure is in the union regulations. I have the regulation manual right here and on page 29 titled section 219- paragraph A- subsection S, it says that in order for a child apprentice to become a legitimate terrorist, it has to take the diaper off their ass and put it on their head. When the diaper is full of shit again, it gets called a turban and they are bona fide terrorists subject to wages of scale until they die.

  12. Re:*CUE* the 'frickin laser' jokes by nemasu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently the /. comment editor makes a horrible IDE.

    ....I don't know why I'm fixing this

    Tested under MSVS2008

    #include <string>
    #include <queue>

    int main(void)
    {
        std::queue<std::string> Q;
        Q.push("Need more frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads!");
        Q.push("mutated sea bass?");
        Q.push("Well, it's a start");
        return 0x2A;
    }

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