Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 29, 2013
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Wang fang! 16-year-old Wang Pengfei, from Chongping, China, has two sharp vampire like fangs- the only teeth in his head! Bat bomb! During World War II, the United States Air Force tested incendiary bombs attached to Mexican free tailed bats! For hot jazz?! In 1981 Pat Vidas of New York State patented a flame throwing trumpet!
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The bat bombs would have been a rousing success. And yes, they did set a military base on n fire, parts of it anyway. The bats “performed” flawlessly. But by the time they were ready, the military had bombs that would do the job, and just didn’t have faith in the animals.The pigeons that would have guided bombs to their targets would have worked well too. (well, did in tests) Most of the animals projects would have worked pretty good.Even when the russians strapped bombs on to dogs to attacks tanks. They just didn’t teach the dogs to distinguish GERMAN tanks, from RUSSIAN tanks. But it did work some.The biggest failure, was probably the “cat bomb”. A aerial bomb, guided by a cat. To be dropped on ships at sea. The “theory” being cats don’t like water, and would guide the bomb to the “safe, dry” boat. But they mostly passed out, and the bombs went where they were dropped. Cats were not used to flying, but the pigeons were.