Company sells dowsing rods for use as bomb detectors

[dropzone]

@Bookkeeper

But they DO work! (If you use them like any other pointed stick to poke gently into the ground to find the buried mines and bombs :rolleyes:)

I’d be more concerned about the worthlessness of that thin sheet of Lexan covering his(?) face if my introduction to the product hadn’t been a test by GE Plastics (then a subsidiary of the Sheinhardt Wig Company) in which a shotgun was fired at a Lexan motorcycle helmet visor and the only place a pellet passed through was through a metal snap.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@Inigo_Montoya

Well, yes it is. We never relied exclusively on psychics for esponage, and laugh if you want to about the burning photos thing–if that hadda worked out it would have been awesome! But you make my point for me. Neither method worked reliably and so they were back-burnered for “further study” while more effective methods were pursued.

If you haven’t read The Men Who Stare At Goats, I strongly recommend you do so forthwith. The psychic spies were “back burnered” for 20 years. That’s how long it took the Department of Defense to figure out what an incredibly stupid idea they were. I presume they cover this in the movie too but I haven’t seen it yet.

This made me giggle uncontrollably:

“Whether it’s magic or scientific, what I care about is it detects bombs,” said Maj. Gen. Jehad al-Jabiri, head of the Ministry of the Interior’s General Directorate for Combating Explosives.

Does anybody else desperately want Ministry of the Interior - General Directorate for Combating Explosives on their business card?

[Czarcasm]

@Inigo_Montoya

Well, yes it is. We never relied exclusively on psychics for esponage, and laugh if you want to about the burning photos thing–if that hadda worked out it would have been awesome! But you make my point for me. Neither method worked reliably and so they were back-burnered for “further study” while more effective methods were pursued.

Correction-neither method worked at all.

[Gfactor]

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