Don't Go Near the Water!..

It amuses me when we have to go to “merry old England” to learn what passes for news about ourselves.
This morning care of the United Kingdom’s “Guardian Unlimited” we learned that “36 killer dolphins are loose” in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to reporter Mark Townsend Houston, 36 dart wielding dolphins trained in anti terrorist tactics by the US Navy escaped from their training compound in a sound near Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana at the height of Hurricane Katrina. They have not been recovered.
Houston wrote:
“Leo Sheridan, 72, a respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry, said he had received intelligence from sources close to the US government's marine fisheries service confirming dolphins had escaped.
'My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises. If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire,' he said. 'The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?’”
One is supposed to think that the US Navy would be so stupid as to leave “armed trained dolphins” at the mercy of a Hurricane…
I can believe that their handlers turned them loose to fend for themselves in the storm….but not with their weaponry.