Risky Situation? Call the SWAT Monkey

[Bark Bark Bark]

It's official: my world's officially jumped the damn shark. Lancelot Link is spinning in his unmarked grave.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/21/swat.monkey.reut/index.html

PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) -- "Send in the SWAT monkey" is not an order police commanders are accustomed to giving, but that could change if an Arizona police department follows through on a proposal to train a capuchin monkey for high-risk police operations.

A Special Weapons and Tactics veteran from Mesa, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, has researched the possibility of landing a $100,000 federal grant to fund a pilot program to train one monkey.

"Everybody laughs about it until they really start thinking about it," Sean Truelove told the East Valley Tribune, a local newspaper. "It could change the way we do business."

Major city police departments in the United States use paramilitary SWAT teams for hostage situations and in situations involving heavily armed criminals.

"...do business." Jesus.

Whoo. Imagine the lawsuits. Oh, hell, just imagine TV cop shows.

[atommom]

1. Thinking about that is supposed to make you STOP laughing?

:rofl:

I'm having trouble imagining this. I wonder how long this $100,000 training would take? That's a big investment for one little monkey.

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3. just wait until the monkeys form a union!

[atommom]

4. This is starting to sound SO much like a Simpsons episode!

[vpigrad]

2. You can employee a lot of people for the cost of one monkey!

With the poor economy we need to figure-out ways of hiring people, not firing people.

My local department laid-off an officer to pay for an animal. So one poor guy is out of work and unemployeed so that another officer can have a pet. It's disgusting.

[ET Awful]

5. When I first read this, all I could think of was Homer Simpson

and how much he would love a sitcom called SWAT Monkey :)

[atommom]

6. Wouldn't we all? It could be even better than The Planet of the Apes

musical! ;)

[ReadTomPaine]

9. Lets face it.

It will happen. It's fate.

[kliljedahl]

7. Further along than you thought

http://www.kliljedahl.net/dupics/Video/Monkey1-high.wmv




Keith’s Barbeque Central

[ReadTomPaine]

8. So many questions...

Will they ride motorcycles?


What about off duty?


What if they don't like GOP SWAT types and rebel?


How hard will they be to get in front of the press?


If the press is allowed, will they become media stars?


And of course, the question on everyone's mind. Is this part of a wider conspiracy?

[atommom]

10. Wow! I'm in awe of your knowledge of primates!

Especially the really primitive Bush variety.... :D