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Old 12-30-2009, 19:16   #7
craigepo
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"granny panty"
Armymom, I was wanting to have a serious conversation, but now I can't get granny panties out of my mind. Big ones, like small parachutes.

"Scanners won't work. Neither will dogs."
I would have to respectfully disagree with the notion that dogs wouldn't work in this situation. We used military dogs some in Kosovo, and they worked well. Additionally, a friend of mine works bloodhounds for the missouri department of corrections---I have heard some amazing stories about these dogs. Also, I just get back from working my bird dogs, two german shorthaired pointers. Like many hunting breeds, these dogs have been bred to improve many qualities, including their sense of smell, for centuries. On a good day, these dogs can find where a quail was hours ago, track it down, point it, and not move until I get there.(a couple of weeks ago they pointed and fought a skunk, but that story will have to wait).
In Missouri, the highway patrol used to set up drug interdiction checkpoints on the interstates. They would walk drug dogs by the stopped vehicles. The dogs' noses were sensitive enough to detect drugs by walking close to the vehicles. As to whether those dogs' noses are sensitive enough to detect explosives in a terrorist's rectum, I will let somebody else determine.
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