http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ht/8471187.stm
Man invents a bomb detector, countries buy it for millions & then it turns out it doesn't work. How did this not get spotted before, maybe at the erm...evaluation stage before countries bought thousands!?
I was reading that, and got to the bit about how it "works" and thought... he must be one HELL of a salesman to buy that thing, let alone part with $40,000 for each one!!! Not to mention that a bloody dog would do a more effective job, and only want a tennis ball for a reward!!
Originally Posted by The Quentos
this needs quoting so people go read it, cos it's top value
Iraq has bought thousands of the detectors for a total of $85m (£52m).
The device is sold by Jim McCormick, based at offices in rural Somerset, UK.
The ADE-651 is in use at most checkpoints in Baghdad
The ADE-651 detector has never been shown to work in a scientific test.
There are no batteries and it consists of a swivelling aerial mounted to a hinge on a hand-grip. Critics have likened it to a glorified dowsing rod.
Mr McCormick told the BBC in a previous interview that "the theory behind dowsing and the theory behind how we actually detect explosives is very similar".
Main (23-01-2010)
/wipes tears away....
ok.. get this bit
oh my sides.... they hurtThe training manual for the device says it can even, with the right card, detect elephants, humans and 100 dollar bills
Is it april already?, the blokes a genious!!!.
If they cost, say, 11p each to make, that's... erm... a shedload of profit.
I'm only surprised that anyone bought one. Have they never heard of getting a sample product and testing it before buying several thousand units?
Common sense advice from the FBI:
d'oh. So that's what we've been doing wrong all these years?
What.. all at the same time?? you can imagine can't you...The training manual for the device says it can even, with the right card, detect elephants, humans and 100 dollar bills
"Hey! the detector's gone mad Bill"
"What's up?"
"Hmm, looks like it's a chap riding an elephant, armed with what looks to be $100 notes...."
"Oh, alright then, as long as it's not a bomb.."
That is possibly the most fubar thing I've read in the news in a while.
Seriously, that guy need to be locked up or put in an asylum.
Iraq has bought thousands of the detectors for a total of $85m (£52m)Tell you what, that's going to be one posh office! If I wasn't so concerned about the implications of this 'new information', I'd be shaking the mans hand for total pwnage.The device is sold by Jim McCormick, based at offices in rural Somerset, UK
The guy deserves praise for daring and succeeding such a scam, but also left in an area filled with bombs and be forced to find his way out equipped with his own device.
Still, the people who are getting scammed are not helping themselves:
*Facepalm*"Whether it's magic or scientific, what I care about is it detects bombs," he said.
He's now been arrested for Fraud according to BBC news this morning.
For a second I was laughing at him convincing people to pay such ridiculous money for something so clearly rubbish ("The promotional material for the ADE-651 claims it is powered only by the user's static electricity") without checking it out. Hell, I looked for reviews of LED light bulbs the other day cos they were £10 each... Then I thought about who he was selling these things too and why, and I stopped laughing.
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.
Biggest scam since P T Barnum ?
He's made a lot of money, just by copying an identical device in the US from 1995
http://media.www.thetriangle.org/med...y-917761.shtml
A fake device it undoubtedly is, but is it legal for the UK to prevent him selling it to other countries ?
How did it take people so long to actually dissect one and see that its nothing more than a shop safety tag?
'Incredible' the 'neck' of some people. Good that he has been charged with 'fraud'.
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