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"All I want are FRIKKEN sharks with FRIKKEN LAY-ZERS ON THEIR FRIKKEN HEADS!"

Come on, throw my a frikken bone here.]]>Dec 13th 2006 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/13/darpas-zombie-shark-trainer-looking-towards-non-military-applic/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/13/darpas-zombie-shark-trainer-looking-towards-non-military-applic/
Didn't see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin' by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and sometimes that shark he go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away.

Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn't even seem to be livin'... 'til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin' and your hollerin' those sharks come in and... they rip you to pieces.

You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist.

At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol' fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
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Seriously, though: this sucks. The more whacked-out creatures-as-weapons research we do, the more these animals will not be seen as 'innocent'. Several shark species have already become enadangered. Any coastal foreign power suspecting it's being 'spied on' by such a program, in a period of escslating tensions, institutes a bounty on shark heads--impoverished fishermen go ape and sharks go extinct. Fun for the whole ecosystem.

Also: As a suba diver, I've gotta say this does NOT make feel safer.... I'm already on the lookout for Flipper, the DARPA dart-playing dolphin.]]>Dec 13th 2006 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/13/darpas-zombie-shark-trainer-looking-towards-non-military-applic/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/13/darpas-zombie-shark-trainer-looking-towards-non-military-applic/Dec 13th 2006 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/13/darpas-zombie-shark-trainer-looking-towards-non-military-applic/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/13/darpas-zombie-shark-trainer-looking-towards-non-military-applic/Dec 13th 2006 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/13/darpas-zombie-shark-trainer-looking-towards-non-military-applic/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/13/darpas-zombie-shark-trainer-looking-towards-non-military-applic/
farewell and adieu to the fair Spanish ladies,
farewell and sdieu to Ladies of Spain

show me the way to go home...
i'm tired and i want to go to bed
i had a little drink about an hour ago
and it's gone right to my head
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Sharks

...their JAWSOME!]]>Dec 14th 2006 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/13/darpas-zombie-shark-trainer-looking-towards-non-military-applic/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/13/darpas-zombie-shark-trainer-looking-towards-non-military-applic/Dec 14th 2006 1:03PM