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Leonard_Cohen		2002-05-02 01:57:50 PM

In a related story, terrorist cat breeders have been recruited by Al-Qeda.

Claude Damage		2002-05-02 01:58:14 PM

I don't see why this is so great. They're already controlling the stinky guy on the corner using satellite beams. At least that's what he says. He should know, since he was in Nam.

Butterface		2002-05-02 01:58:44 PM

this sound eerily familiar.

meshman		2002-05-02 01:58:44 PM

So? Congress has been around for ages.

Cheesus		2002-05-02 01:59:02 PM

Yay, more plague.

Hycdubg		2002-05-02 01:59:04 PM

Yeah, remote controlled cars were just getting too boring for them.

goalcam		2002-05-02 01:59:29 PM

It's like Battle Bots except with rats!

tinrobot		2002-05-02 02:00:21 PM

Can this technology be applied to the opposite sex? Fembots?

sheepish		2002-05-02 02:00:48 PM

I need some electrodes in my brain. Yeah, baby, push that button for me. Give me pleasure.

Baaa

art_h		2002-05-02 02:00:48 PM

I enjoyed this article.... the first time, when it was posted yesterday.

panama2001		2002-05-02 02:02:10 PM

RAT: Sqweek

GOVERNMENT: Okay - sqweek once for a found person - Sqweek twice for a landmine. Nevermind - you'll be blown to bits already.

RAT: SQWEEK?

bug		2002-05-02 02:02:23 PM

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ta minute. doesn't Linda Tripp work at the Pentagon? I think she's up to no good again.

hedgehog		2002-05-02 02:02:27 PM

Not neews. They are called "enlistees". They are told when to eat, sleep and shiat. They are used as experimental fodder for Agent Orange, Nuclear Radiation, bio-weapons vaccines, and the like.

panama2001		2002-05-02 02:03:06 PM

Does this call for a cliche kitty chasing a rat?

Grand_High_Took		2002-05-02 02:03:35 PM

In other news, it was recently discovered that the pentagon is largely populated by remote controlled rats.

OK that's not really fair. How about Congress instead?

SLAYERSWINE		2002-05-02 02:05:38 PM

G_H_T,
How about we just feed them arsenic in the cheese they eat with their wine ? =+)
They are all rats...

DrToast		2002-05-02 02:05:38 PM

[see prior thread regarding my rat jokes]

panama2001		2002-05-02 02:06:09 PM

Leonard_Cohen		2002-05-02 02:06:23 PM

My seven year old has on eof these rats

Leonard_Cohen		2002-05-02 02:06:30 PM

My seven year old has one of those rats

sex0r		2002-05-02 02:06:56 PM

What do ya know? Another farking repeat. Was a shiatty story the first time around. Do the mods think (ha!) these stories get better with age? Post it again next week and maybe it'll be interesting.

mr_fogey		2002-05-02 02:07:09 PM

Willard: The Next Generation

JackMoore		2002-05-02 02:08:22 PM

i'll take anal bum cover for $7000.

dracflamloc		2002-05-02 02:13:22 PM

UH OH! QUICK! SOMEBODY CALL P3TA. Aghhh!

hehehe, PETA... Poop Eating Taco Association

HKUSP9MM		2002-05-02 02:13:33 PM

O.K. people,follow me on this.

For whatever Godforsaken reason I suddenly find myself
trapped under tons of debris.I think I'm alive,but it's very
dark and I can't hear shiat.Oh wait ,I do hear something.It's a rustling sound.So I whip out the old bic
and light it.And just what do I see? A farking pack of 30
RATS with wires sticking out of their heads!Helloooo heart attack.HELP,THEY WANT TO EAT MEEEEE....

dewars-rocks		2002-05-02 02:16:09 PM

Yet another repeat post. It's now obvious
no one reads the articles anymore. Not even the mods.
The articles have become but a facade to the seedy underground comment community of Fark. I knew it was destined to happen, it's a master plan. All the subliminal messages inside the post are getting to us.

CaligulaTD		2002-05-02 02:17:31 PM

HKUSP9MM -- that was great

Metallus		2002-05-02 02:17:55 PM

Guess they won't have to worry about troops deserting from now on.

Leopold Porkstacker		2002-05-02 02:18:35 PM

Threepeat.

-he who stacks pork

Eeek		2002-05-02 02:20:10 PM

Here's the remote control for it:
http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/description.asp?Prod=JRP8612**&pc=JRP8653 **

Vampire		2002-05-02 02:21:09 PM

Truth is stranger than fiction. Supposedly there is a scene in the movie "Fifth Element" that has a radio controled rat w/ a bomb in it....

Scoots		2002-05-02 02:22:04 PM

It's amazing how many people biatch about repeat articles getting posted...head over to TotalFark and you'll see this story has been submitted about 50 times in the last two days. Apparently some of you like seeing repeats...

ZzeusS		2002-05-02 02:23:13 PM

Football fields are 320 feet long?

WarmBeer		2002-05-02 02:23:37 PM

Old news. Dubya's been in office for a while.

IdocG		2002-05-02 02:23:45 PM

"Rats are not Tonka trucks with whiskers," Sweetland said. "This is just another way that people are showing how they really feel about rats."

right lady, we have had a vendetta against rats since teenage mutant ninja turtles...

in a related story, wired rats can now drive tonka trucks for miles on 1/2cup of gas

panama2001		2002-05-02 02:25:31 PM

IdocG - LOL

Scoots		2002-05-02 02:25:51 PM

I Taste Like Chicken: the only conversation going on is in the approved links.

Rosalea		2002-05-02 02:28:05 PM

Truth is stranger than fiction. Supposedly there is a scene in the movie "Fifth Element" that has a radio controled rat w/ a bomb in it....

huh? All I remember was a remote controlled roach with a camera and mic

hubiestubert		2002-05-02 02:29:39 PM

Missed this one the first time I guess. This does have some pretty cool ramifications, but could also lead to all sorts of others. Remote controlled crows? Great surviellence possibilities, and who thinks about crows? Remote controlled doggies? Yeah, that could get some PETA folks worked up, but could be good for search and rescue operations in snow country. Remote controlled ferrets to kill the remote controlled rats? Special Forces guys with a steel reinforced rat house sent into combat, and a tiny remote control unit? Hackers sending in rats to drop off mics and tiny cameras? The FBI using rats to drop off mics and tiny cameras? Private detectives using rats to drop off mics and tiny cameras?

real remon		2002-05-02 02:29:52 PM

Yesterday's title:

Scientists turn living rat into radio-controlled automaton using brain electrodes

numberz		2002-05-02 02:31:29 PM

Am I the only one with that dang Michael Jackson song in my head?

Where 'WILLARD' ended... Ben begins. And this time, he's not alone!

Leonard_Cohen		2002-05-02 02:36:55 PM

I bet Hollywood will follow suit, just think if have remote control animals you wont need those high priced animation stations and those high priced animation artists.

numberz		2002-05-02 02:41:47 PM

One last obscure reference and then I'm done.

This is a job for... the Rat Patrol

Thermos		2002-05-02 02:43:57 PM

threepeat

Walkman		2002-05-02 02:44:24 PM

Won't do'em any good to send a rat to spy on me with a camera. The cops would get one good picture of a very large boot descending or the muzzleblast from a shotgun.

Monkeypants		2002-05-02 02:47:41 PM

I smell an RC-Pro Am ROM hack!

(puts lit cigarette in eye to stop nerdy posting urges)

nytyper		2002-05-02 02:47:55 PM

will the rats be carrying those x10 cameras I see ads for all the time? see? internet ads DO work!

rwg		2002-05-02 02:48:39 PM

Mary Beth Sweetland, vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, deplored the experiments as well as the possible use of remote-controlled rats.

"Rats are not Tonka trucks with whiskers," Sweetland said. "This is just another way that people are showing how they really feel about rats."

Guess now they need to train the rats to detect the smell of PETA members and ignore them during search-and-rescue operations.