Strange bombs

[Dundeegeorge]

In a similar vein

Apparently we did a fine line in exploding rats...

I loved the story about the Russians in WWII training dogs to run underneath tanks with explosives strapped on their backs (the dogs, not the tanks).
The idea was that they would run under the German Panzers and then blow them up. However with an intelligence akin to a Labour voter, or a christian, they trained the dogs on their own tanks.
So when they tried to use them in battle, the dogs run under the Russian tanks and blow them up.
Classic stuff.

[The Late, Great JC]

Nothing wrong with spreading a healthy amount of fear and paranoia. It makes all those extra "War on Terror" laws so much easier to pass.

[threaded]

They trying to give terrorists ideas or what?

I would imagine so. They need to keep Emmanuel Goldstein fed with ideas otherwise we might notice what TPTB are really up to.

[Not So Wise]

So, don't accept chocolates from a Nazi..

Sep 6, 8:29 AM (ET)

LONDON (Reuters) - Luckily, the exploding Smedley's English Red Plums in Heavy Syrup were intercepted in Turkey before anyone got killed.

But what of the hand grenade disguised as a chocolate bar? Or the incendiary Vichy pastille sweets?

A secret file from the archives of Britain's spy services released this week shows ingenious methods, conjured up by Germans during World War Two, for disguising bombs.

Britain's Security Service began opening its records this year under the country's new Freedom of Information Act.

Among the files declassified by the National Archive was a treasure trove of nifty exploding gadgets, labeled "Camouflages for sabotage equipment used by the German sabotage services."

The drawing of the design for the chocolate bar grenade says it is made from steel coated with real chocolate, and activated by breaking off a bit at one end. It doesn't say whether the grenade was ever actually manufactured or used.

The file also includes photos of the incendiary pastille sweets, and bombs hidden in anything from oil cans and food tins to a lump of coal.

Ok i am one who is all for freedom of information and generally consider 90% of the stuff that is deemed "classified for security reasons" as utterly harmless...but if any of these ideas are workable just what were they thinking revealing them now? They trying to give terrorists ideas or what?