[SandRat]

video at http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=6098332

[SandRat]

SILLY STRING FOR THE TROOPS!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Q: Are the popping party favors and cans of Silly Strings good items to ship to troops, or do they have their own sources and/or would shipment be a problem?

[Ramius]

Ya gotta wonder who tried this the first time. "No, Sarge... Really... ".

But it's just intuitively a great idea. Genius.

It's almost too cool to be true, though. How many spaces are really rigged with trip wires over there? Is it a common technique of the bad guys?

[John Jorsett]

This has been known long enough that I'd think the DoD would be shipping cases of the stuff over there by now, assuming there's such a great need.

[NewRomeTacitus]

"We have all these high tech things now a days and they're using a child's toy."

Dang it; they hanged Saddam before he got to recount buying up as many Playstations as possible to get his air defenses up. I don't know if that story's true or not, but it certainly justifies guarding our technological edge.

Now how to implement the Super-Soaker...?