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Bees To Sting Drugs Dealers & Terrorists

mirror.co.uk — The next weapon against terrorist and drug dealers may be bees. They can be trained within minutes to detect the smell of bombs and drugs, Started in Britian, it's now being successfully tested in the US: "When they detect the target scent they stick out their proboscis and the tiny movement is picked up by sensors attached to a computer"

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  • buzzedlightyear, on 10/12/2007, -5/+56gives a whole new meaning to a 'sting' operation
  • Easty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37No, buying pirated honey supports terrorists.
  • nerditup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30send the dogs, or the bees. Or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you.
  • Hazardc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26Thanks for the broad generalization, *****

    That kid smoking pot isn't as damaging to our country as singular minded ***** such as yourself tossing anyone who doesnt agree with everything you say into a certain group, and acting like the word liberal is spelled with four letters
  • anglachel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24buying honey supports terrorists!!
  • kingace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Actually, I'm pretty sure that we can bury your *****.
  • Sp0rAdiC, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Yeah... damn liberals... smoking their weed and supporting terrorism.
  • RobynG7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Han Solo says: "I've got a bad feeling about this..."
  • sniper6121, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Does this mean honey prices are going to go up?
  • 0x0000ff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11It's a Simpsons quote, Homer is at Mr Burns' door.
  • Spire3660, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Im tired of the airport being treated like it is some holy ground. It amazes me that after 9/11, people think its ok to surrender all of your rights upon entering a PRIVATELY OWNED business.
  • mt066, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Didn't we create those super dangerous killer bees last time we tried to mess with bees?
  • Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This will be used to go sniffing Pot plants out in the middle of a field, then direct the police farce back to said plants by using their stingers as a pointer like you see in cartoons?

    Because we all know pot + terrorists are one and the same, apparently..

    What a joke these lot are. The only people who need to be locked up are these ***** nutcases.
  • nazadus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@TomP:

    I think they are referring to it's tongue, not it's stinger.
    I think that's what a proboscis is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee
  • captjc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7What could go wrong?
  • whiskeysquared, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@Jun: What happened in your life to turn you into a simple-minded, black or white thinking, everything's-a-conservative-liberal-argument douchebag? I'm not one to resort to name-calling most times, but this crap is getting ridiculous. Is objective, free thought becoming extinct? Why narrow down a stoner's question into a vendetta against liberals? The article is about a bunch of circus bees you lame jackass. His comment was innocent, and had a relatively good question behind it. I bet you don't shop at Target because it's reportedly a French company and you boycotted Heinz ketchup out of an utterly retarded demonstration of patriotism. I volunteer to start a fund that would transport you and all your ***** friends to your own private island somewhere so we don't have to hear your idiotic rants, distorted views and ignorant claims any more. I promise to provide a direct feed from Fox News too.
  • RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7would have been more fun if they trained the bees to attack :(
  • pairanoyd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Oh boy, wait until this goes wrong and they get a false positive and their ***** bees attack someone innocent..

    I'm allergic to bee, hornet and wasp stings and could DIE if stung.
    I have to avoid all stinging insects. Even mosquitos cause me to have severe reactions.

    Yeah, I'll BEE suing the ***** out of the government on this one someday..
  • steve693, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why do I have a feeling that police will use this as an excuse to strip search everyone they want using the excuse, "Our bee flew near him."
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Wow, sounds like a GREAT idea. Give me a fkn break. The reason this is a stupid idea is the same reason biometric identification hasn't come into the mainstream like some would like it to have. False positives.

    Tell it to the innocent person who dies because a bee thought it had a clue.
  • 0x0000ff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Try reading the article
  • avolant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you people arguing not to go to the airport high have obviously never been to an airport
  • supremechees, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2nothing makes me feel safer than being in an airport with hyper intelligent bees!
  • SaintArium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I find this a very interesting idea. Using animals with higher sense of smell is a tried and true concept, and bees are a bit more portable than blood hounds. However the fact that the bees training only lasts about two weeks is somewhat disturbing. Knowing the airport security they will let the expiration dates go by as long as possible before replacing them. This sounds like the honey lobby is finally making their move...
  • captainchris, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5so bees will now sting people using drugs and get attracted to bombs? this can only mean great things.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Umm... read the article. The bees are in a box. They're happy, nice bees that get fed sugar water every time they find some drugs or bombs.
  • Mullinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Even though the bees aren't actually stinging...

    Homer: Ow! OWWW!! Oh their defending themselves somehow!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4b5bip_tVA
  • Simon80, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Incorrect topic lines seriously undermine Digg's credibility. However, most on Digg seem not to care that they're reading fake news.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So because we can't find Bin Laden and Co ourselves, we have to contract Bees to help us, Classic!
  • konpentchev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>>Im tired of the airport being treated like it is some holy ground. It amazes me that after >>9/11, people think its ok to surrender all of your rights upon entering a PRIVATELY >>OWNED business.

    Your rights as a patron/business owner have been surrendered for you a long time ago. The ADA, Civil Rights Act of 64 and various smoking and trans-fat bans all interfere with with the Rights of PRIVATELY OWNED businesses and their patrons.
  • marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This somehow reminds me of the proposed "Bat Bombers" of WWII.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
  • commodore64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Go my bees!
  • idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How do you know the writers weren't high when they thought of it?
  • Easty, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7I agree with Jun168's first sentence. Don't go to the airport high, you tard. Unless you particularly want the rubber-glove treatment.
  • LoopyChew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I lîke my cocaine like I like my women...covered in bees! Aah!
  • DyDx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why the hell wouldn't I go to an airport high? I'm not talking about smoke boxing a car and then going straight to security -- obviously the stench might arouse some suspicion, at least enough such that they examine the xray a little more carefully. But that's it. I look the typical stoner college type, and I'm usually wearing attire adorning the name of the prestigious university I go to (one of the only good things about Baltimore), so what threat am I? I've _never_ had trouble going through security, none whatsoever.

    And I don't care more about getting high than protecting the country... it just so happens that we live in a culture of fear in which everyone is trained to believe that terrorists could _strike at any moment_! OH MY. It's simply untrue. The terrorist threat is not even 1/10 as bad as the government wants to scare you into believing.
  • SaintArium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I did actually hear a story on this a few days ago on the BBC. on their podcast "newspod' don't remember the date though.
  • crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"We believe the bees can also be trained to detect medical problems - and even dry rot."

    yeah, I hate it when you wake up after a hard night of partying to piss and find yourself with dry rot.
  • Pyrogen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So, who's actually read this article? I see a few...
  • interrogate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2How would someone die to a bee that was locked in a box? Title is misleading, the bees do not sting anyone.
  • tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's not incorrect. They're referring to a sting operation. Which it could be considered. It's more of a detection, but that coul be considered similar to a sting. I think you can give the poster some leeway since he was obviously going for the pun.
  • anteyekon4myst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Are you going to release the dogs, or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouthes and everytime they bark they shoot bees.
  • Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3The bees don't sting anybody, you dolts. They keep 'em in a box. If they stick out their tongue at you, a computer senses you have drugs, or a bonb, or a Linux disk, because all those things stink.

    Now, how do you train a computer to sense when a bee sticks out his tongue at somebody?
  • idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Wow, doesn't anyone RTFA? The bees are not actually stinging. Their response to a smell is detected by a computer system which then acts accordingly.

    edit; beat by radiated ant. sorta.
  • dahamsta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's a redtop boys and girls, not to be taken seriously.
  • unkle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3http://youtube.com/watch?v=NZOu5ieVCAo

    it was the first thing that came to mind when i read the title
  • Easty, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7Launching bees at dealers would be so much more fun, though.
    "I swear I don't got *****, officer!"
    "Alright sergeant, release the bees."
    "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHOHGODTHEY'REONMYFACEAAAAAARGH"

    It'd sure as hell scare me straight.
  • netplaya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And if they use small bees, all the better!
  • cardyology, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Have these people not watched "My Girl"? Inscentinel could end up with a right law suit on their sugary water covered hands. RIP Thomas J.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It must have started as a bad joke some engineer made to management and just took off in a fantastic display of idiocy.
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