Re: Landmines (was Re: US/Foreign AID)

From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Mon Dec 24 2001 - 07:11:42 MST


On 2001.12.23, Adrian Tymes <wingcat@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > Why not breed cats en-masse, and use them as landmine fodder?
>
> 'Cause the cats might be too light to trigger the landmines?

Ever hear of "safety in numbers"? I'm thinking of just dropping
hundreds of cats (from the air) onto places with landmines. Then,
record it and simulcast it on TV and the web for Pay-Per-View
entertainment.

Maybe we could get Regis Philbin to host a game show ... "Who
wants to blow up a cat with a landmine?"

Oh, I give up. Laugh already.

> > Find a good use for cats, and get rid of all these dormant landmines.
>
> Actually, I was more wondering why the US wouldn't sign a treaty banning
> the more primitive landmines. I mean, if the US believes it is
> resposibly using landmines, then it should have little problem asking
> the rest of the world to be responsible in the same way, no?

Um, if the US believes it could even possibly do anything responsibly,
then why not just stop building weapons of destruction and ask the
rest of the world to be responsible in the same way?

Silly.

-- Dossy

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