I don't know - Have you ever seen The Lawnmower Man or Family Guy? Not to mention sending a monkey in a kevlar suit to a mentally disturbed person contemplating suicide - I'd jump for sure!!!

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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."

The monkey, which costs $15,000, is what Truelove envisions as the ultimate SWAT reconnaissance tool. 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.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-swat-monkey,0,1590617.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

BLAST FROM THE PAST! Links to entries with similar content, maybe...
I almost forgot to mention this... CUBS WIN CENTRAL DIVISION!!!
Michael "Ron Mexico" Vick hit with suit
Jessica Biel in a cat suit! HOT!!! I can't wait to see I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry!
Suicide fashion???
Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration Thu Oct 27, 7:10 PM ET

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I'm afraid of monkeys after reading that story a few weeks ago...

I guess one plus is you can command it to bite off the fingers of a gunman so that he can't pull the trigger... or bite of the dick of a rapist... or bite off the nose of Michael Jackson... the possibilities are endless!

Posted by: RAT | April 19, 2005 9:04 AM

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