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US Navy robot kill-choppers to drop auto-snort podules

Ken Hagan

Suspect sailors' crack sniffed out by droids 

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Splendid use of the apostrophe there, sir. That headline could have been seriously ambiguous otherwise. Thumbs up all round, er ...

Flocke Kroes

Why do they need it? 

If they want drugs, they can go to central America and fill a ship up with them.

Warhelmet

I, for one... 

welcome our new drug-sniffing overlords.

Erm...

Lol Whibley

AKA 

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the Beagle YoYo

dog on a bungie cord.

I CAN HAZ NAVY PORK NOW PLZ??

Chris G

Given the itchyness 

Of American trigger fingers, there will be very few nitrate filled bulk carriers reaching US shores.

As Flocke Kroes notes, the yanks could go direct to source and buy the drugs direct, thereby saving a great deal of time trying to find them later. Then if they should wish they could destroy them at leisure.

I know it is a bit like the King of England paying the Vikings a lot of money (Danegeld) to not come to England to take a lot of money but hey, that's business.

Anonymous Coward

Skynet 

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How long til Skynet launches again??

Matt

"change the paradigm" 

I love it when bods that term because generally it means anything but..

Warhelmet

Oh, podules... 

I originally read it as auto snort poodles.

Pyros

Nah... 

Joke

I read it as "sniffing out sailors' butt-crack."

Tim

Clubbers beware. 

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As you come out of the club at six in the morning, the last thing you want is a "podule" dropping out of the sky and rendering you even more incapable.

Anonymous Coward

Sailors? On Drugs? 

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Either that helicopter is really, really small, or ........... Oh My God I'm a giant !!!

TeeCee

@Warhelmet 

Never mind. I initially read that they were to be made by "Loonfinity". Despite what it actually says, I'm still not sure that I wasn't right the first time.

Why

784k!? 

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The credit crunch must be hitting in - US Military signs a cheque for < 1 Million!

Ian Ferguson

Podule spiders 

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Pleeeeease let the podules have spider legs and run around taking video of everything... it will make my video game / sci fi movie dreams come true.

Lukin Brewer

Pete Loveday visualised this ages ago. 

In one of his cartoons, a group of stoners were hassled by a drug sniffer dog being dangled from a police helicopter on a winch. One of them got on his motorbike, and, waving a joint, decoyed the dog (and helicopter) away. He then rode under a bridge, which the dog on the winch then smashed into.