Pentagon confirms gay love bomb

**pineapple stu** · 12/06/2007, 10:17 PM

From Aertel -

The US Air Force has confirmed a 1994 plan to drop a non-lethal gay love bomb on enemy troops.

A military spending watchdog group in Berkeley, California, discovered the proposal through the Freedom of Information Act and passed it on to a San Francisco television station.

The proposal by an Ohio Air Force lab was to develop a chemical that, when dropped onto the troops, made them irresistable to each other and unable to fight.

It asked for €5.5m for the programme, but was later rejected by officials.

Edit - BBC report.

**strangeirish** · 12/06/2007, 10:22 PM

Drop Mary Harney on them. That'd do the same thing.

**Soper** · 12/06/2007, 10:48 PM

Mary Harney was dropped on Nagasaki in the WWII

**anto1208** · 13/06/2007, 8:57 AM

Originally Posted by strangeirish

Drop Mary Harney on them. That'd do the same thing.

Yes Mary Harney would make the blokes around you seem more apealing all right

**paul_oshea** · 13/06/2007, 8:59 AM

does anyone remember, "get flirty with bertie?
get horney with harney?"

**Magicme** · 13/06/2007, 9:06 AM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

does anyone remember, "get flirty with bertie?
get horney with harney?"

You just made that up, you sick git!

**paul_oshea** · 13/06/2007, 11:52 AM

no i didnt it was on that political satire show

**GavinZac** · 13/06/2007, 11:59 AM

These labs have hair-brained schemes quite regularly. For more, read "The men who stare at goats".

The title references one of the schemes, where a lab actually got funding for experiments to see if they could kill goats by staring at them.

**noby** · 13/06/2007, 12:00 PM

Wow, that's a bit of a leap from a

plan to drop a ... bomb on enemy troops.

to a

proposal ... to develop a chemical

**superfrank** · 13/06/2007, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

no i didnt it was on that political satire show

Ah yeah Bull Island. Wasn't there a Liz O'Donnell one too?

**BohsPartisan** · 13/06/2007, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by GavinZac

The title references one of the schemes, where a lab actually got funding for experiments to see if they could kill goats by staring at them.

If looks could kill...

**noby** · 13/06/2007, 12:25 PM

Because goats are the real enemy.

**pete** · 13/06/2007, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by GavinZac

These labs have hair-brained schemes quite regularly. For more, read "The men who stare at goats".

The title references one of the schemes, where a lab actually got funding for experiments to see if they could kill goats by staring at them.

The men who stare at goats

Hippie soldiers. Unusual book but there was also a documentary on ch4.