Serious use for a silly product
How innovative are U.S. soldiers? They came up with the idea of using Silly String to protect themselves from bombs. They squirt the goop across a room before searching it. It solidifies into the stringlike stuff in the air. If the stuff remains suspended, it shows them where a nearly invisible trip wire is. How cool is that?
A Camden County mother heard about it from her son, and she's been collecting the stuff. With 3,000 cans of it in her garage, she could be drawing some strange looks from unaware neighbors. The Michigan company that manufactures the similar Magic String just donated another 6,000 cans to her cause.
What a great idea. But a news story about it said "the military is reluctant to talk about the use of Silly String, saying that discussing specific tactics will tip off insurgents." ... Probably because they didn't think it up themselves, or aren't funding it.
A Camden County mother heard about it from her son, and she's been collecting the stuff. With 3,000 cans of it in her garage, she could be drawing some strange looks from unaware neighbors. The Michigan company that manufactures the similar Magic String just donated another 6,000 cans to her cause.
What a great idea. But a news story about it said "the military is reluctant to talk about the use of Silly String, saying that discussing specific tactics will tip off insurgents." ... Probably because they didn't think it up themselves, or aren't funding it.
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