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Marine Mammals Used To Fight Terrorism

Posted by samzenpus on from the jones-the-enhanced-dolphin dept.

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

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

  4. 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."

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

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

  6. 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!

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

    /me Slaps Terrorists around with a Fish

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