The Puke Ray

Via PSoTD, the latest in fighting terrorism.... nausea and light bulbs!:

Look Out, Here Comes The Puke Ray

And in the latest dose of news that seems to have leaped out of a comic book and landed on the pages of USA Today, that paper reports on the Homeland Security department’s newest toy, a “powerful beam of light that temporarily blinds anyone who looks on it.”

Officially known as an LED Incapacitator, the light saber-like device has been dubbed a “puke ray” by one online publication.

“It’s like someone shooting off a flashbulb in your face every few seconds,” said Bob Lieberman, president of Intelligent Optical, which is developing the devices. “Because of the wavelengths and frequencies we use, there are psychophysical effects – a real disorientation. The reaction can range through vertigo to nausea.”

Which sounds fine, except that the Homeland Security department wants it to be “in the hands of thousands of policemen, border agents and National Guardsmen” by 2010, hinting that it planned to solve the immigration problem by blinding the Mexicans into staying on their side of the border. Who needs a wall when you’ve got a thousands points of nausea-inducing light?

I don't think former president George H. W. Bush meant THIS to be one of his thousand points of light....