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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Tech docs for Alpha Complex? 

The Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness is a gallery of bizarre instruction manuals maintained by one Darren Barefoot.

When I happened on the instructions for blowing up a horse ("Total obliteration might be preferred in situations where the public is expected in the area the next day, or where bears are particularly prolific") and creating an exploding rat, I was for some reason moved to contemplate what kinds of weird instruction manuals and warning signs one might see in Alpha Complex. Something akin to this hellbound water heater, perhaps, or these floor sweeping instructions.

And certainly Armed Forces has instruction sheets for obtaining intelligence from Outdoors traitors, like this chart for obtaining intel from Iraqi prisoners, as well as these terse yet vital Claymore mine instructions.

What am I missing?
Posted by: Allen Varney / 6:20 PM

Comments:
Huh. I think the claymore mine shouldn't have been listed. There actually WERE incidents in Vietnam where the mine was kinda placed the wrong way 'round, causing...problems...to the American unit.

Oh, and you missed this one:
http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/hall/slides/Chipper.html

...on the other hand, people in Alpha Complex wouldn't be whistling. They'd be shoving the guy in.
# posted by Anonymous Allandaros : February 16, 2006 7:57 PM
 
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