I though Genghis Khan invented this, but used sparrows.
Imperial Japan had their own rodent army they plan to use against the US. They wanted to release plague infected insects into the population where they would first attack rodents stateside. They would be released via clay pots carried by balloons. It was to be an attack on the West Coast of the continental US
“I’ll take ‘What If Wile E. Coyote Were The Secretary of Defense’ for $200, Alex”
There was a TV program about this several years ago. I guess it was on “The History Channel”.
I think the gist of it was that it worked but was not that much better than just dropping incendiary bombs plus it was a whole lot more trouble.
so a deliberate war crime ?
Would have loved to have been in the room when that bomb idea was first proposed. Those generals must have fallen out of their chairs laughing.
Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned the foxes tail to tail and put one torch in the middle between two tails. 5 When he had set fire to the torches, he released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, thus burning up both the shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and groves...
This is the oldest use of animal-borne incendiaries I know of, but someone may come up with an earlier one...
Years ago Dave Berry told this true tale, finishing up speculating that the idea could have ended up parachuting Buffalo because of their greater payload capacity.
The poor little bats...
When I was little, a bat flew into my bedroom one night, and the next morning, my father insisted that I had a nightmare. I insisted, and we found the bat under the curtains.
While bats can carry rabies, they’re among the most voracious predators of flying insects.
Mark
