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One question-does it come with a thigh holster?
Posted by: Curious John | February 23, 2006 at 01:17 PM
gives a new and sinister meaning to 'shoot off your mouth'...
Posted by: insomniac | February 23, 2006 at 01:22 PM
I want a shoe-phone like Maxwell Smart used to carry.
Posted by: mudstuffin | February 23, 2006 at 01:23 PM
Old news - the Snopes reference on this is from 2001.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/cellgun.htm
Posted by: Neil G | February 23, 2006 at 01:23 PM
"The FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the U.S. Customs Service say they’ve been briefed on the new weapons" and as a group they all say it is the responsibility of the other two to protect the public from them.
Posted by: CoastRaven | February 23, 2006 at 01:24 PM
oh, and
FIRST!
(sorry for shouting, I'm thrilled!)
Posted by: Curious John | February 23, 2006 at 01:25 PM
Ah, but it's new to THIS blog. We're also trying to confirm a tip we got that the vice president shot a lawyer.
Posted by: Dave | February 23, 2006 at 01:26 PM
I prefer my Tazerberry and my macePod.
Posted by: Nateislate | February 23, 2006 at 01:27 PM
If this is what it takes to ban cell phones on planes, trains and automobiles than I am all for it. Besides maybe some of the slower of our species my get the two confused and well you know...
Posted by: Addicted to 24 | February 23, 2006 at 01:30 PM
Dirty Harry, standing over "suspect" he's subdued after shooting all the guy's sleazeball criminal buddies with his cell phone:
"This here cell phone is a Motorola XZ5500, model 12, with booster antenna, nickel cadmium battery, a range of 3,500 nautical miles, 300 minutes of talk time and 700 standby. It's the most powerful cell phone in the world. In all the excitement just now, I lost count of how many minutes of my long distance plan got used up. So, I don't know how many I've got left. The question is, do you feel lucky, punk?"
Posted by: Lairbo | February 23, 2006 at 01:31 PM
Can i have one??
Posted by: Josh | February 23, 2006 at 01:32 PM
Ring.....Ring.....BANG. We're sorry. The party you are trying to reach, [name], has been shot. Please make a note of it.
Posted by: Blue Meanie | February 23, 2006 at 01:34 PM
"Does Jack Bauer have one?"
*POP*
"Ahh! My thigh!!!"
Posted by: Punkin Poo | February 23, 2006 at 01:38 PM
5-6-7-8 HEY thats the combination to my luggage!!
Posted by: CoastRaven | February 23, 2006 at 01:38 PM
I'm more intrigued by the video loop running on the side.
Posted by: slyeyes | February 23, 2006 at 01:40 PM
Dave, don't be so naive! If the Vice President had shot somebody, we surely would have heard about it.
Link blatantly stolen from C-bol's site.
Posted by: Federal Duck | February 23, 2006 at 01:41 PM
Snork at Lairbo!
Posted by: cyaneyed | February 23, 2006 at 01:42 PM
Lets get the bad one over with.
"Talk about reach out and touch some one."
Does Q know about this?
Posted by: Alfred | February 23, 2006 at 02:09 PM
"Can you hear me NOW?"
No, dammit, you've blown my brains out thru my ear.
Posted by: MOTW | February 23, 2006 at 02:10 PM
I'd love to see somebody shoot himself in the head while talking on his cell phone at the cinema.
Oops. Maybe I said too much.
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | February 23, 2006 at 02:12 PM
It's Thursday, has the Vice-President shot anybody yet? You never know....
Posted by: Kathy P. | February 23, 2006 at 02:13 PM
Absolutely LOVE the headline question: Threat to Security?
What a great question! It begs to be answered!
"New Pencil Has Tactical Nukes, Can't Be Detected Without Vulcan Technology - Threat to Security???"
"Keanu Reeves Remains Free to Make Movies! Threat to Collective Intelligence??"
"Iran Gives Enriched Plutonium to Saudi's Guarding America's Ports! Threat to Security?"
Posted by: Christobol | February 23, 2006 at 02:18 PM
Did anybody hear the sad news of the father (72) accidentally shot and killed his son (36) while quail hunting Tuesday?
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | February 23, 2006 at 02:20 PM
The question remains...can it make phone calls?
Posted by: Schadeboy | February 23, 2006 at 02:24 PM
I didn't, Lab.
But with a name like THAT, it's got to be good jelly!
Posted by: Christobol | February 23, 2006 at 02:29 PM
well, if you want to see the 'funny' videos, you have to sign up for one of their 'free' deals. scuse me. thanks, i'll have to pass.
Posted by: queensbee | February 23, 2006 at 03:03 PM
Queensbee- I clicked on it and did not get anyrequests to do anything.
Posted by: Alfred | February 23, 2006 at 03:07 PM
Checked to make sure. Yep just downloades.
Posted by: Alfred | February 23, 2006 at 03:08 PM
Wolfgang Dicke is a German cop? Of course he is!
Posted by: mike p | February 23, 2006 at 03:08 PM
I drop my cell phone all the time - I'm sure I'd be dead within a week from a self-inflicted gunshot.
Posted by: Kat | February 23, 2006 at 03:31 PM
Hey Mike... Wolfgang Dicke might need to move to Australia to help hunt down Donkey Dong.
Posted by: Brad | February 23, 2006 at 03:32 PM
♬ Ring! ♬ Ring! BLAM!
Hey Ralph, that was a cool ringtone! Where'd ya get it? Ralph? RALPH?
Posted by: Mad Soapboxer | February 23, 2006 at 04:59 PM
I don't even know how to retrieve my messages on my new cell, so I don't think this would be a good toy for me; i.e., Let's see what happens if I push this button, and this one, and thi - BANG!
Posted by: Eleanor | February 23, 2006 at 05:05 PM
From a purely practical perspective (he said alliteratively), the accuracy of this thing with zero barrel length, no sight, and the obvious problems with recoil on a small box with no firm grip should make it useless for anything other than holding directly against the head or body of the intended victim. I realize that may be the planned use for a hijacker, but wouldn't you feel a little silly holding an obvious cellphone against your victim's head?
"What are you going to do? Gradually give me a brain tumor?"
"No, this is a gun! Do as I say!"
"That's not a gun, it's a cellphone. Stop horsing around."
"It is a gun! Honest!"
"Nonsense. Now go back and sit down."
"Okay. I'm sorry."
Posted by: Ken | February 23, 2006 at 10:18 PM
I keep trineta recall if Honey Ryder was the one who had two guns/bullets in her bikini bra ... similar concept with similar drawbacks ... gotta really be close to the victim, to hit the target ...
NEbuddy else remember?
Posted by: U.O | February 23, 2006 at 11:25 PM
No, Honey Ryder was the Bond heroine in Dr. No (the first of the Bond movies). She was played in the movie by Ursula Andress, in the famous bikini. Her only weaponry was a knife on her hip. Neither the book nor the movies back then were outlandish enough to put guns in bras. That kind of nonsense came a lot later in the Bond series. In From Russia With Love it was considered a far out weapon idea simply to put a knife blade in the toe of Rosa Kleb's shoe!
I think the first use of the bikini gun concept was in the 1965 movie "The 10th Victim". Of course the idea was used more recently in the Austin Powers movies.
Posted by: Ken | February 24, 2006 at 01:09 AM
Well ... not to argufy ... but I seem to have the memory of "reading it in the book" (whichever one) and then waiting to see it in the movie ... and then seeing it ... and ... there were the itsy powder burns, and the bad guy she'd embraced fell to the floor ... and ...
It sure seems like it wuz Ursula's physiognomy I'm rememberin ... but it mighta been a different one ... mebbe even one of the Matt Helm spoofs ???
It's out there ... I just can't find it ... (NO! NOT THAT WAY, SILLY!!!)
Posted by: U.O | February 24, 2006 at 04:42 AM
Ah, you are thinking of a scene in "The Ambushers" (Dean Martin as Matt Helm). A girl proudly shows off her new weaponry to a string of cheesy double entendres from Deano. That movie was released in 1967, so it was obviously riffing on the technology introduced in 1965's "The 10th Victim."
Good memory, either way!
Watch out for those fembots.
Posted by: Ken | February 24, 2006 at 09:51 AM
Something looks wrong. The story says it fires through the antenna, but it doesn't look like there's any way for the cartridges to move.
I smell hoax or movie prop.
Posted by: Steve | February 24, 2006 at 12:51 PM