Posted on 5/22/2004, 6:05:22 PM by sathers
Documents obtained by the New York Times show that US interrogators at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prision had devised a diobolically gruesome new tatic to abuse 'innocent' Iraqi terror suspects: Nerf Torture.
'One of the MP's took a Nerf football and threw it at the detainees,' Spc. Roman Krol, a reservist with the 325th Military Intelligence Ballalion, revealed to Army interrogators who grilled him about the horrors of Abu Ghraib-the Times said Saturday.
The Nerf football and other Nerf toys are foam rubber objects designed to protect small children who play with them from injuries.
One of the most popular-the Nerf bat- is routinely used by four year olds to beat the daylights out of each other without injury.
In an apparent oversight, the Geneva Convention makes no mention of protecting P.O.W's from abuse by Nerf toys.
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What did Rummy know, and when did he know it!
Super Soakers filled with shampoo to make their eyes hurt!
What is so sad is that I can't tell if this is a joke or not.
I havent seen the NYT Saturday edition, but apparently it is real.
Me neither --- this sounds like "rolfing" or something like that. It's pretty funny if it's humor.
The horror...the horror.
Seriesly though, a fast-moving Nerf can graze the skin and cause a nasty little raspberry. I've seen it happen, although I personally never experienced that particular injury.
One time, the pointy end of a Nerf football hit me in the eye. It stung for almost a full 30 seconds...possibly a whole minute.
I will never forget it.
The NYT people think no one reads the Saturday edition, so they just left about anything fly..
'You could poke an eye out with that thing!'
Was the Nerf football dry, or wet?
Wait 'till someone puts Nerf panties on their noggins - imagine the hubbub that will most assuredly ensue. Horrors!
-PJ
The Horror!
Whiffle bats are only saved for the hard core cases.
Nerf blasters are only for High Value Targets.. (HVT's)
;0)
Worse for the Old Grey Whore's credibility that is!
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