NEWS: U.S. Military Loses Bad Austin Powers Joke in Hurricane's Wake

CULTURE: U.S. Military Loses Bad Austin Powers Joke in Hurricane's Wake

Post-Hurricane Katrina, there are stories that leave you with a profound sadness, and in some cases, a growing anger.

Then there's the occasional story that leaves a profound feeling of "huh?" followed by "you've got to be kidding me."

The military has lost more than 30 terrorist hunting attack dolphins off the Gulf of Mexico.

No. Really.

Apparently, their pens were compromised during Hurricane Katrina, releasing the animals into the wild.

Insert "dolphin overlords" jokes at your own risk.

This sounds like something straight out of the X-Files.

i see nothing weird about this. at all.

If those looney animal-rights people continue to stifle military R+D, the windsurfers have already won.

gotta be a hoax....

uhm.. that sucks?

I can't wait to hear of examples of the dolphins passing on their training to other dolphins, as the orcas in the fishing for seagulls story a couple weeks back.

I can't wait to hear of examples of the dolphins passing on their training to other dolphins, as the orcas in the fishing for seagulls story a couple weeks back.

I can't wait to hear of examples of the dolphins passing on their training to other dolphins, as the orcas in the fishing for seagulls story a couple weeks back.

I can't wait to hear examples of the dolphins passing on their training to other dolphins, as the orcas in the fishing for seagulls story a couple weeks back.

The stuff about dolphins in the military is definitely true.

My cousin's fiancee is a high ranking officer of the navy intelligence so all he's allowed to say is that he's involved in using dolphins. It must be pretty serious stuff considering that he has told stories of situations where he's required to get coffee in a meeting because all the other men there were admirals.

He's stationed in hawaii though, so I don't know if they're doing this in the gulf.

As for the dart thing...god only knows.

All I want is some freaking dolphins with freaking lasers on there heads. Is that so much to ask for?

I never swim in the ocean. The day the secret platoon of counter-terrorist monkeys escapes is the day I will worry.

on the one hand, this thread made me think of Day of the Dolphin, which makes me really sad. on the other hand, attack dolphins with poison dart guns are about as fucking awesome as it's possible to be.

I love this photo



[Edited on Sep 26, 2005 by stockula]

with freaking laser beams attached to there heads

I for one welcome our new dolphin masters with open arms. Hopefully when the US parliament (or whatever you crazy folks call it) is dissolved our liberal dolphin masters won't ban any more pr0nography.

*cos no one else said it*

I, for one, WELCOME our dolphin overlords.



-TM

You beat me to it...

I love the part: "If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber." Ummm, how do they tell the difference?

Wonder if they will agree with the FBI and label Greenpeace pro-dolphin activists "animal rights extremists and eco-terrorists" and shoot them with darts...

those of us who watch the simpsons saw this coming.

this is just completely obsurd....

aaand yeah we're totally going to be driven into the sea and the dolphins will take over. The Simpsons totally warned us man.

[Edited on Sep 27, 2005 9:18AM]