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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."
No, we need an Environmental Protection Agency that actually protects the environment instead of business interests. Non-mandatory pollution reduction programs instead of regulations - who knew only 2 businesses in the country would sign up for them and reduce pollution on their own without being legally obligated to do so?
"But this one goes to 11!"
You took something moderately funny and ruined it. You sir, are a fail.
This is a truly novel approach, but what kind of sophisticated aqua-terrorists are we genuinely preparing to encounter?
Prior to 9/11, people like you would ask the same questions about civilian aircraft. Maybe you should pull your head out of your ass and look towards all avenues of terrorism.
Hey, at other places people pay a lot of money to swim with dolphins.
> They regretted not using killer whales in the Hanoi harbor to exploit the Vietnamese cultural fear of large fish.
Cultural fear of large fish? I'm not Vietnamese and I think I'd have a better chance against an attacking great white shark than a killer whale.
Or at least a quicker death. See what killer whales get up to with their prey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xk0fc_FzUs
No, we need an Environmental Protection Agency that actually protects the environment instead of business interests. Non-mandatory pollution reduction programs instead of regulations - who knew only 2 businesses in the country would sign up for them and reduce pollution on their own without being legally obligated to do so?
People with functioning brains?
If enough of the 'frickin laser' jokes were made you would have a queue of them.
One persons terrorist is another persons freedom fighter. It all depends on your POV.