Whoa! (Shaking my head) I had to do a double take and read this again. The U.S. military has trained dolphins to fire darts from gun harnesses on their bodies (what do they press the trigger with???). Some of these were washed out to sea when Katrina hit New Orleans, and they’re armed!!

The dolphins have been trained to look for divers in wetsuits and shoot them (who are supposed to be bad guy terrorists attacking a U.S. ship…I guess they’re supposed to be ‘deployed’ around Navy vessels?). Officials are worried the dolphins may attack scuba divers and anyone else they encounter.

File this under bizarre!

The Observer | International | Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina