How to lure US bombers and scrapped shells by using a light and a dog.

November 17, 2001 10:12 PM

How to lure US bombers and scrapped shells by using a light and a dog. Afghans in Kandahar are attracting bombs for their resale value. Go rogue economists go! Just don't ask about the dog.
posted by skallas (7 comments total)

I wonder if this is just a tall-tale that some journalist bought hook, line, and sinker. I can't imagine spending the last of your money not on food but on a crazy scheme to blow up a shed.
posted by skallas at 10:14 PM on November 17, 2001

Quick AOL open up that Afghani information market! Yeah. Maybe a special Afghani version with a big icon to eBay. A peice of bread? Gahh. Collectors over here would. . .

Well you get the point.

I can hear it now. Sometime after Saturday Night Live and during infomercial central before the early news, "Now you can own this keepsake of the Great War of the 21st Century. Handsomely mounted on 100% genuine Bamiyan limestone shards. . ."
posted by crasspastor at 10:39 PM on November 17, 2001

Wait'll the SPCA hears about this.
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 10:46 PM on November 17, 2001

Life imitates Dilbert...
posted by adamsc at 11:28 PM on November 17, 2001

Actually, stories like this were told about the Soviet-Afghan war -- there was a Russian saying something like "They make us shoot at them, and then sell our bullets back to us."
posted by dhartung at 7:33 PM on November 18, 2001

Huh. Now PETA will have to protest the war.
posted by darukaru at 7:48 PM on November 18, 2001

So... the scrap metal was worth the price of a piece of bread...

Why didn't he just eat the dog?

(I’m deeply skeptical...)
posted by jpburns at 5:22 AM on November 19, 2001