Dolphins to stop jihadi swimmers!

[bobsponge]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/12/dolphins....s.ap/index.html

Your tax dollars hard at work, folks! Flipper's going to help set beacons out when he catches 'suspicious swimmers'!

You've got to be $h!tting me.

Interesting tidbit of trivia: For WWII, the Germans trained dogs to carry explosive packages in order to plant them under enemy tanks. The idea was that the dog would lay down beneath the tank and it would detonate the charge, blowing up the tank and the dog. Well, in the field, the dogs went and laid down under the German tanks, not the Allied ones (because that is what they were trained on!). Murphy's law.

[DavidOdden]

Your tax dollars hard at work, folks! Flipper's going to help set beacons out when he catches 'suspicious swimmers'!

Old news. The Navy has been recruiting dolphins since Nam. The tax dollars at work is the occasional PR burst.

[DarkWaters]

Interesting tidbit of trivia: For WWII, the Germans trained dogs to carry explosive packages in order to plant them under enemy tanks. The idea was that the dog would lay down beneath the tank and it would detonate the charge, blowing up the tank and the dog. Well, in the field, the dogs went and laid down under the German tanks, not the Allied ones (because that is what they were trained on!). Murphy's law.

According to Wikipedia, this was a Soviet Union endeavor and not a German one. Furthermore, this initiative must have had some initial success as the Germans allegedly mounted flame-throwers on their tanks to ward off the dogs.

Of course, be warned that this article is disputed.