"Sargent...fetch me the Chimp, and give him a MP5.. he is going in"
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"Sargent...fetch me the Chimp, and give him a MP5.. he is going in"
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050419/D89I6I580.html
Originally Posted by MyWay News
MESA, Ariz. (AP) - The Mesa Police Department is looking to add some primal instinct to its SWAT team. And to do that, it's looking to a monkey.
"Everybody laughs about it until they really start thinking about it," said Mesa Officer Sean Truelove, who builds and operates tactical robots for the suburban Phoenix SWAT team. "It would change the way we do business."
Truelove is spearheading the department's request to purchase and train a capuchin monkey, considered the second smartest primate to the chimpanzee. The department is seeking about $100,000 in federal grant money to put the idea to use in Mesa SWAT operations.
The monkey, which costs $15,000, is what Truelove envisions as the ultimate SWAT reconnaissance tool.
Since 1979, capuchin monkeys have been trained to be companions for people who are quadriplegics by performing daily tasks, such as serving food, opening and closing doors, turning lights on and off, retrieving objects and brushing hair.
Truelove hopes the same training could prepare a monkey for special-ops intelligence.
Weighing only 3 to 8 pounds with tiny humanlike hands and puzzle-solving skills, Truelove said it could unlock doors, search buildings and find suicide victims on command. Dressed in a Kevlar vest, video camera and two-way radio, the small monkey would be able to get into places no officer or robot could go.
It has been a little over a year since Truelove filed a grant proposal with the U.S. Department of Defense under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and he is still waiting for word.
If the grant goes through, Truelove plans on learning how to train the monkey himself and keeping the sociable monkey at home, just like a K-9 officer would. He projects that $85,000 in grant money would outfit the monkey with gear and pay for veterinarian care, food and habitat for three years.
"Everybody laughs about it until they really start thinking about it," said Mesa Officer Sean Truelove, who builds and operates tactical robots for the suburban Phoenix SWAT team. "It would change the way we do business."
Truelove is spearheading the department's request to purchase and train a capuchin monkey, considered the second smartest primate to the chimpanzee. The department is seeking about $100,000 in federal grant money to put the idea to use in Mesa SWAT operations.
The monkey, which costs $15,000, is what Truelove envisions as the ultimate SWAT reconnaissance tool.
Since 1979, capuchin monkeys have been trained to be companions for people who are quadriplegics by performing daily tasks, such as serving food, opening and closing doors, turning lights on and off, retrieving objects and brushing hair.
Truelove hopes the same training could prepare a monkey for special-ops intelligence.
Weighing only 3 to 8 pounds with tiny humanlike hands and puzzle-solving skills, Truelove said it could unlock doors, search buildings and find suicide victims on command. Dressed in a Kevlar vest, video camera and two-way radio, the small monkey would be able to get into places no officer or robot could go.
It has been a little over a year since Truelove filed a grant proposal with the U.S. Department of Defense under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and he is still waiting for word.
If the grant goes through, Truelove plans on learning how to train the monkey himself and keeping the sociable monkey at home, just like a K-9 officer would. He projects that $85,000 in grant money would outfit the monkey with gear and pay for veterinarian care, food and habitat for three years.
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what if he has to go poop on the job. i think the smell would give away his position or kill the suspect.
Seriously, the worst idea ev4r.
This tool just wants the feds to pay for him to have a monkey.
"Dude, I want a monkey so bad..."
"I got an awesome idea. I bet I could get the govt to buy me a monkey if I said he was a part of the department."
"Monkey cop. That's awesome." *cough* *cough*
"Dude, puff, puff, pass. You're bogarting"
This tool just wants the feds to pay for him to have a monkey.
"Dude, I want a monkey so bad..."
"I got an awesome idea. I bet I could get the govt to buy me a monkey if I said he was a part of the department."
"Monkey cop. That's awesome." *cough* *cough*
"Dude, puff, puff, pass. You're bogarting"
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Yeah if a SWAT member with a family dies trying to catch a cracked out homeless illegal alien who barricaded himself in the gas station he was robbing gets killed thats one thing but if the monkey dies...................OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally Posted by 1reguL8NSTi
Yeah if a SWAT member with a family dies trying to catch a cracked out homeless illegal alien who barricaded himself in the gas station he was robbing gets killed thats one thing but if the monkey dies...................OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!
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don't hate just because the monkey has better lawyers.
I wonder how long it will take for PETA to showup
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Who cares if he volunteered or not. Is that the sympathy you have for soldiers dying in Iraq right now? I guess you would rather have approx. 1,500 families recieve news of their killed children than have the same amount of monkeys die based on your logic. (I know that is completely hypothetical since that couldn't ever even have the potential of happening) That makes sense. Sure they volunteered but that doesn't make it better for them to die. 1,500 humans can do a whole lot more for society than 1,500 monkeys. Anyone can flame on me for saying this, I really don't care. That's a rediculous statement.
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Originally Posted by 1reguL8NSTi
Who cares if he volunteered or not. Is that the sympathy you have for soldiers dying in Iraq right now? I guess you would rather have approx. 1,500 families recieve news of their killed children than have the same amount of monkeys die based on your logic. (I know that is completely hypothetical since that couldn't ever even have the potential of happening) That makes sense. Sure they volunteered but that doesn't make it better for them to die. 1,500 humans can do a whole lot more for society than 1,500 monkeys. Anyone can flame on me for saying this, I really don't care. That's a rediculous statement.
lets see 1500 members of SWAT do that !
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Originally Posted by 1reguL8NSTi
I guess you would rather have approx. 1,500 families recieve news of their killed children than have the same amount of monkeys die based on your logic.
Originally Posted by 1reguL8NSTi
Who cares if he volunteered or not. Is that the sympathy you have for soldiers dying in Iraq right now? I guess you would rather have approx. 1,500 families recieve news of their killed children than have the same amount of monkeys die based on your logic. (I know that is completely hypothetical since that couldn't ever even have the potential of happening) That makes sense. Sure they volunteered but that doesn't make it better for them to die. 1,500 humans can do a whole lot more for society than 1,500 monkeys. Anyone can flame on me for saying this, I really don't care. That's a rediculous statement.
Turn you joke and sarcasm filter on.