Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real 151
First time accepted submitter NF6X writes "Following the conviction of British conman James McCormick for selling fake bomb detectors which were in fact rebadged novelty golf ball divining rods, Nairobi police chief Benson Githinji stated to reporters that his department's fake bomb detectors are serviceable, and contributed towards a recent elimination of successful grenade attacks."
Works just fine (Score:5, Funny)
1) Give intern new shiny bomb detector
2) Send intern to walk around field for a while
3) Intern blows up
4) Success - bomb detected!
5) Added bonus - bomb removed!
Won't work. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:no testing I guess? (Score:2, Funny)
You'd think if you were buying some devices claiming to detect something-or-other, you would try out a specimen and see if it works. Did all of these countries he sold them to fail to do any testing on whether they worked?
You see they are not using them right. They are trying to detect 'real bombs', when clearly this is a 'fake bomb' detector!
Re:Won't work. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Reminiscent of Bagdad-Bob (Score:2, Funny)
He knew this because his tank detector was reading zero.
Re:no testing I guess? (Score:5, Funny)
Problem is confirmation bais is really easy to sell on people, so they honestly believe they did test it out and it worked.
You are only saying that because you want people to believe in confirmation bias.
Great news for Nigerian princes! (Score:2, Funny)
If these things don't work, it's great news for all those Nigerian princes trying to move money - just route it through Kenya! No more depending on those greedy and overly-skeptical first-world emailers.
It works just fine..... (Score:2, Funny)
you're just not holding it right.
Jobs
Re:Slashdot criminal activity... apk (Score:5, Funny)
STOP REPLYING TO THESE. The only reason I can see them is because you reply and then get modded up which brings the entire post into my view.
So true. Mod parent up!