FUN JOB

Here's a story about a "SmartPill" that travels through a horse's digestive system, transmitting information. It is retrieved via a process called "manure surfing."

(Yes, The Manure Surfers would be a good name for a rock band.)

(Thanks to Heather Mays)

Comments

[Mahatma Kane Jeeves]

News you can use!

[Siouxie]

..."manure surfing." You collect the manure in the bucket and then go through each "road apple" until you find the little device.

PASS.

[wiredog]

They have those for humans, too.

[queensbee]

um, yuck.

[pogo]

Trust me - if you gotta have an association with some kind of manure, horse is the way to go. Avoid hog manure at all costs.

[Cat R]

Not surfing.

Scuba-diving.

Diverdowndoo-doo.

(No offense to DDD. I couldn't resist.)

[Steve Haller]

So you're saying you can't scale down Raquel Welch ?

[Margaritaville]

*makes mental note to decline if offered "road apples" which sound refreshing but aren't*

[Sippimink]

That's a big ten-four, Pogo; horse manure wins first place, hands down.

[Afkat]

Having been on drug enforcement for a number of years as a young RCMP officer, I am more than familiar with the concept of "manure surfing".

The traffickers would carry the heroin inside their mouths, in a condom, and, unless we got to them quickly enough, would swallow the lot as we approached.

So...we then went on "potty patrol"...the suspect being in custody as we waited for nature to take its course, so that we retrieve the "evidence".

For those interested in statistics, the records was 21 days.

After about 10 days, the local paper, in Calgary, starting running a daily header above its masthead, stating something like "15 days, still no output".

It was really quite funny. In the end (no pun intended) we recovered 50 caps of heroin...

Oh..and given his horrendous previous criminal record, he got 18 years.

[PJtheBarbarian]

unfortunately, Dave, "Manure surfers" would never fly as there might be trademark issues with a very real band called (sigh) the "Butthole Surfers"