Thursday, September 29, 2005

Dolphins: Underwater Ally or Armed and Dangerous?

dear santa, could I please have a terrorist-attacking-poison-dart-shooting dolphin? that, and a new iPod...please?!! i promise to be really-really good this year!


The Observer has come up with a highly amusing article recently. and just incase we are not sure what a dolphin looks like these days, here is a photo.

"...My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises. If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire. The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?’ - Leo Sheridan, 72, accident investigator."

I'm sorry - but this has to be the coolest thing ever...

I'm not sure about anyone else but I don't know many terrorists who are on windsurfing terrorist suicide missions, or that it is likely that these dolphins just happened to have loaded poison dart guns strapped to their back the same time a hurricane was going to strike the training ponds. or that they were trained to hunt down and attack marine terrorists but couldn't be trained how to come back home. but if any of it's true, then i know what i am putting on my christmas list this year.

that is all.

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