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The Bomb Squad Olympiad Starts Today
The bomb suit relay and the robot obstacle course are just two of the events you can enjoy at the Bomb Squad Olympiad. Over the next three days squads from across South Carolina will compete and showcase their bomb defusing capabilities for the public. I hear the deep fried dynamite is especially good.
"With the current emphasis on security demand for bomb disposal expertise is booming."
"This event is no flash-in-the-pan"
"We've had an explosive reaction"
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I hear the deep fried dynamite is especially good.
Don't believe it-- it will give you a headache.
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Team from Iraq has won gold medal for best ever performance of suicide bombers, all of judges who could possibly vote them down have being eliminated...
Funnily enough, my captcha was word "fatality".
Who else is reminded of this by the description of the "Hook and Line" contest?
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From Wikipedia: An Olympiad is a period of four years, associated with the Olympic Games of Classical Greece. [...] Today, an Olympiad refers to a period beginning January 1 of a year in which the Summer Olympics are due to occur, and lasting four years.
Robots? ROBOTS!?!?
They have a radio-controlled platform with manually controlled servos. How is THAT a robot? It does absolutely NOTHING autonomously (except rust).
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/stacey83/bomb.jpg
Okay, sure, it's an event limited to South Carolina, and it's a yearly event, not every 4 years. I can live with that. But the Olympiad is the time between the games, you hillbillies.
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...go out with a bang?
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtCe-Szsj0c ... I laughed so hard when I saw this, and I still laugh!
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And here I thought you were talking about the Commonwealth Games!
Although I'm sure that the Delhi bomb squad folks are having some sleepless nights, they probably won't win any medals.
Well, as a visitor, I would be frustrated by this event. They show the most uninteresting parts of this fascinating topic.
It is understandable that they don't want to perform controlled detonations for the enjoyment of the general public or discuss the secret art of defusing a bomb, but I would still be frustrated (shame on me).
The opportunities just defy belief...
- It's in South Carolina (A redneck's last words? "Hey, y'all...watch this!")
- It involves explosives (ibid.)
- It's being held at a HIGH SCHOOL, for God's sake. What about a high school is the best place to hold EOD activities, even simulated ones?
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What could possibly go wrong?
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
The cynical amongst us might think this sort of thing just reinforces the idea that "Terrorists are among us!" and we should give lots of tax and civil liberties to the government to "protect" us.. But that's just cynicism, right?
Had to laugh when I saw this. This morning traveling to work on the A14 in the east of England and I passed a Reliant Robin all decked out in mat black, complete with front stabilisers (a common mod to Robins that stopped them toppling over!), tinted windows, spotlight bar across the roof and lots of attached paraphernalia doing it's over weighted maximum speed of about 40mph. In the front and back were full width window stickers with the words "Bomb Squad". Boy, was he ever lost!!