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2005-09-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

But what about the Sharks with Laser Beams?

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Posted by Steve 2005-09-26 10:52|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Looks like somebody's been checking on our "respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry". Doncha hate when that happens?

We find, however, that Sheridan has made sport of gullible reporters in the past. In 2003, he was confident that he and a team of divers he advised had located the site where English aviator Amy Johnson died, after her plane went into the sea off Kent in 1941. The Guardian carried that item too. Not surprisingly, there has been little news about Johnson's plane since the announcement.
He also appears to have been confident, back in 1998, that a group of US Navy killer dolphins had come to grief off the French Mediterranean coast when they got loose and their handlers detonated a "radio-controlled explosion of their signal collars, so that no one could find out their missions."

And I like their headline better:
Dolphin assassins menace Gulf of Mexico

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-26 13:44|| 2005-09-26 13:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Where'd you get that link?

BTW, we discussed this yesterday, and I pointed out that there aren't any naval bases in Louisiana on the Lake Ponchatrain side of the river, as far as I can tell...

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-09-26 13:54|| 2005-09-26 13:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Dolphin assassins menace Gulf of Mexico

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/09/26/dolphin_assassins_run_amok/

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-26 14:09|| 2005-09-26 14:09|| Front Page Top

#4 there aren't any naval bases in Louisiana on the Lake Ponchatrain side of the river,

Heh heh. He feeds reporters a wild story that sounds like it might be true, but leaves details that, if fact checked, would show it to be totally false. He's counting on them not to check and turn out to look stupid. I bow to the master.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-09-26 15:06|| 2005-09-26 15:06|| Front Page Top

#5 When life imitates art...

Posted by BigEd 2005-09-26 15:53|| 2005-09-26 15:53|| Front Page Top

#6 He feeds reporters a wild story that sounds like it might be true, but leaves details that, if fact checked, would show it to be totally false. He's counting on them not to check and turn out to look stupid.

I dunno. That seems like setting up a feeding station in front of your hunting blind: just not sporting. Reporters, as a rule, are about as bright as the common planaria.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-26 15:58|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-26 15:58|| Front Page Top

#7 like setting up a feeding station in front of your hunting blind: just not sporting

It's not like we're talking about game animals here. I look at it as chumming for carp.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-09-26 16:34|| 2005-09-26 16:34|| Front Page Top

#8 corn?

Posted by halfEmpty 2005-09-26 17:53|| 2005-09-26 17:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Minor update: Matt says he's heard of facilities on the East Bank, but doesn't know that much about them.

I'm trying to track down more information... the one facility I did find on the east bank was in bywater, which is well away from the lakes.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-09-26 18:55|| 2005-09-26 18:55|| Front Page Top

#10 AFAIK the dolphins still patrol and protect the Carrier piers and the sub base at ballast point. They're well-trained

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-26 19:10|| 2005-09-26 19:10|| Front Page Top

#11 should've noted - in San Diego....damn

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-26 19:32|| 2005-09-26 19:32|| Front Page Top

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