This is actually pretty cool (in a horrifying way) — using Silly String in combat.
American troops use the stuff to detect trip wires around bombs, as Marcelle Shriver learned from her son, a soldier in Iraq.
Before entering a building, troops squirt the plastic goo, which can shoot strands about 10 to 12 feet, across the room. If it falls to the ground, no trip wires. If it hangs in the air, they know they have a problem. The wires are otherwise nearly invisible.
That’s really remarkably clever.
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So I’m wondering: Do our soldiers have enough Silly String?
Not a question I could have imagined asking ten minutes ago.
I think so. At least, I remember hearing Bush say we were going to spray the course in Iraq.
And that is, indeed, pretty silly to string us along like that.