Pigeon suicide bombers
Posted by Peter W. Schramm
The BBC reports: "British spy chiefs secretly considered training pigeons to fly into enemy targets carrying explosives or biological weapons, it has been revealed.
British intelligence set up a pigeon committee at the end of World War II to ensure expertise gained in the use of the birds to carry messages was not lost." (Thanks to
AndrewSullivan.)
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We should immediately enlist those who wish to keep alive or relearn the noble art of hawking as a sort of missle defense system, against these pigeons.
Better yet, I suggest we hire Dick Dastardly and his Flying Circus to "Stop that Pigeon"!
If you werent a kid in the late 1960s and early 1970s, or raising a kid, that last comment probably didnt make sense to you. So I offer this reference as a public service.