"Useless" bomb detector used by thousands

Rumour has it.. Tony Blair really regrets buying the 'Super Long Range WMD' version of the ADE Detector a few years back.
 
darubio said:
what the hell? the guy who invented it should be shot! lol
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Isn't there a more obvious punishment considering his "device"? ;)

G-MAN2004 said:
Yep, and now they finally know how bombs have got through the security checkpoints using these. How can he live with himself, I do not know.

At least he's been arrested now.
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Yeah. I sometimes did wonder how the checkpoints weren't picking these bombs up. I don't mean picking them up in the literal sense but in the not detecting them. Surely the US/UK and other countries would have been able to supply, or at least recommend, some decent kit for this purpose.

Efour2 said:
Put the inventor in a field full of land mines and IEDs (and 100 dollar bills) and give him his device and let him find his way out.
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I like you. :)
 
Im thinking of selling a device to the iraqi government , where you put an object into my device and by using electro-thermo-liyce it keeps said object at the same temperature as the surrounding environment.
 
i'm sure they have many fine minds - probably in hiding, or not wanting to be part of a government task force. they c0cked up royally on this one.

perhaps you are also saying that because they vulnerable, and prone to making errors of judgement, it's ok for unscrupulous people taking advantage?
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I am saying nothing of the sort. You seem keen to portray Iraqis in general as almost childlike which I completely disagree with.

As many others have said in this thread faith-healers, snake oil merchants and the like are everywhere. If you choose to believe that carrying a quartz crystal will cure cancer, decide to refuse conventional medical treatment and subsequently go into remission it's your fault.

The same is true of the Iraqi government they chose to believe claims that most primary school children would dismiss and therefore they bear the responsibility.

Come on, you could easily test the bloody thing using nothing more than buckets and a small amount of explosive.
 
"The training manual for the device says it can even, with the right card, detect elephants...."

So, if a terrorist strapped an elephant to the underside of your car, you'd need this gizmo to find it?
 
Judge Mental said:
"The training manual for the device says it can even, with the right card, detect elephants...."

So, if a terrorist strapped an elephant to the underside of your car, you'd need this gizmo to find it?
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I'm sure we'd all have problems detecting the elephant in the room. :p We know it's there, but where?! :eek::D
 
Tr Insanity said:
Not to be harsh, but if anyone is stupid enough to buy this, it's their own fault.
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Its not like the ordinary iraqi police/soldiers tasked to use these things had any part in the procurement process... they're just issued the things and told to use them - if they can't get them to work then they need more training/aren't doing it right etc...

Tis all pretty disgusting
 
I know that this has no relevance to the story, but I did work with an old boy when I was gardening and he could find water with 2 metal dowsing rods. I saw him find a buried water pipe that no-one knew about and pin point the exact position of an old well with no prior knowledge of the garden.

This story reminds me of the latest revelation to come out about the police shining UV lights up peoples' noses to detect drugs. Aparently some bright spark thought that as it worked on forged £5 notes, it would work on noses. No scientific basis but adopted by at least 4 forces across the UK.
 
Rich_L said:
It seems harsh that the guy got arrested for 'fraud by misrepresentation' when there are thousands of 'faith healers', 'fortune-tellers', 'mediums', 'homeopaths' or other such charlatans merrily defrauding the public day in day out without any evidence whatsoever of any efficacy.

If this guy had called himself an 'alternative bomb-detecting practitioner' no doubt it would have been just fine.
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because those homeopaths don't do anything, don't make you better , probably won't make you ill, however he puts people lives in direct danger. Plus it's generally idiotic people's faults for buyign into homeopathy etc, but not normal Iraqis' faults if the checkpoints they live around let bombs in that kill/injure them. (before any grammar nazi's come in and rape me, don't, i don't care...)
 
ojrules said:
because those homeopaths don't do anything, don't make you better , probably won't make you ill, however he puts people lives in direct danger.
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Actually any number of homeopaths have advised people with cancer not to take conventional medicine, but to stick with the homeopath's "cure". You can guess the result. Clue: it's not cure.


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