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Export ban for useless bomb detector

  • 23-01-2010 11:59am
    #1
    MayoForSam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭


    A UK company has been selling so-called bomb detectors to Iraq for $40,000 each that work on the same principle as water dowsing. Also energy efficient in that they operate from the user's static electricity :rolleyes:.

    Only thing is they are a complete fraud ('detector card' is basically a piece of plastic that looks the part) and dozens, maybe hundreds of people have died because bombs have gone off after passing through checkpoints undetected.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8471187.stm

    Somehow I doubt if the Iraqis will get much of their $85 million back.

    Now I wonder would it be possible for me to come up with some yoke that mimics my grandad's renowned water dowsing skills and sell it to John Gormley to find all those pesky water leaks? Got to be a decent business plan there somewhere. Maybe even offer to re-cycle some e-voting machines into such a device?


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  • #2
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


    Good idea for a product,but it seems to have blown up in their faces.


  • #3
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    The guy selling them looks like Josef Fritzl


  • #4
    lugha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,235 ✭✭✭lugha


    My name is URL wrote: »
    The guy selling them looks like Josef Fritzl
    More David Brent I would say.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's about as useful as the Doc Martin mine detector!


  • #6
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    MayoForSam wrote: »

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8471187.stm

    Somehow I doubt if the Iraqis will get much of their $85 million back.
    i thik they might. as uk is involved in iraq and will persue the fraudsters in their own country for fooking up their international image.


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  • #7
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I believe the Iraqi High Jump Champion credits his success to this device.

    Maybe we can sell one to Micheal Flatley for testing too!.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    MayoForSam wrote: »

    Somehow I doubt if the Iraqis will get much of their $85 million back.
    What I'd like to know is how the fcuk they managed to sell $85million worth before discovering they didn't work, did anyone even test them first!


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8476381.stm
    'Bomb detector' maker Jim McCormick arrested
    Jim McCormick sells the hand-held detectors from his offices in Somerset

    The director of a company which sold a bomb-detecting device to 20 countries, including Iraq, has been arrested.

    A candidate for the con artist of the decade!


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