Pentagon Developed 'Laughing Bullets' 286
plasmadroid writes "It might sound like a joke, but documents unearthed by New Scientist show that the Pentagon actually funded research into 'non-lethal' bullets that would also hit a target with a dose of laughing gas. That way, they'd not only be stunned but incapacitated by fits of giggles. Another idea was to put stink bombs inside rubber bullets. I guess it would work, but the idea of crowds of rioters giggling uncontrollably while being pelted with rubber bullets is truly bizarre..."
Why do we need the gas? (Score:5, Funny)
That's just the way we roll, in my hood.
...Oblig (Score:5, Funny)
The Joker (Score:5, Funny)
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LOL
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Hee Hee Hee (Score:5, Funny)
This is not a laughing matter... (Score:1, Funny)
If they use this, FOX will finally be able to show all those crowds of happy Iraqis it always brags about...
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Failed Stink Bomb Bullets (Score:5, Funny)
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Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!...
Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
Re:Safe for entire range? (Score:0, Funny)
Ob(ligatory) Monty Python (Score:3, Funny)
"All through the winter of '43 we had translators working, in joke-proof conditions, to try and produce a German version of the joke. They worked on one word each for greater safety. One of them saw two words of the joke and spent several weeks in hospital. But apart from that things went pretty quickly, and we soon had the joke by January, in a form which our troops couldn't understand but which the Germans could".
Re:Why do we need the gas? (Score:2, Funny)
And one says 'Ouch, that never used to be there!'
Ahh.. Slashdot viral marketing.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ok, then (Score:5, Funny)
In addition.... (Score:4, Funny)
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