Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish…

One of the lighter stories from the Katrina disaster is the report of killer dolphins.
Apparently, the US military had been training dolphins to take out swimming terrorists using a poison dart gun strapped to sea-going mammals, and some of these highly trained animals escaped as a consequence of the hurricane…

'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,' so says Leo Sheridan, 72, a respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry…

‘Weeeee eeeek eeek eeek!’

‘What’s that flipper? Give you my windsurfer or you’ll pop a cap in my ass?’


http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1577753,00.html