# How bad would seeing a animal's dungeon be for a squad of soldiers?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 3, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999 "2017-06-03T13:21:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![dude\_robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@dude\_robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dude_robert)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-bad-would-seeing-a-animals-dungeon-be-for-a-squad-of-soldiers/787999/24 "2017-06-03T20:37:57Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Millions of people watched Godzilla, King Kong and many other films about monsters, etc. It’s entertainment; it doesn’t mean that all those people believe that the creatures exist, and there is not an iota of truth in any of them.

But this is different, the people here genuinely believe that this is real and not fiction, unlike in monster movies where 99.999% of people know that it is fiction.

> [@Miller](#):
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> If it helps anyone else understand this fever dream of a thread, [I think this is the story the OP is talking about.](http://www.snopes.com/u-s-special-forces-killed-a-giant-in-kandahar/)

I think it is a variation of that one, just take away the Special Forces and replace them with two generic squads.

However, my main question is: why would the government be so insistent on covering the giants up? Why not release them to the public? Surely the giants would be an amazing sight for the entire world and would generate infinite attention in zoos? They could even be used in poorer countries for transporting heavy objects, or used in the military as decoys or distractions as they could take a lot of fire before falling over. You could put some steel plates on them and they’d last forever drawing in the enemy’s shots.

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