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posted by on Sunday April 16 2017, @05:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the now-with-nerve-gas! dept.

The USDA will stop using sodium cyanide "bombs" in Idaho (at least temporarily) following an incident that put a 14-year-old in the hospital and killed his dog:

About a month after an anti-predator device spit sodium cyanide in the face of an unsuspecting boy and killed his dog, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it is ending its use of the M-44 mechanisms in Idaho indefinitely.

"We take seriously the incident in Idaho," Jason Suckow, western regional director of the USDA's Wildlife Services agency, told conservation groups in a letter Monday. "We immediately responded by removing all M-44s from the area, initiating an inquiry into the incident, and launching a review of current [Wildlife Services] operating procedures."

Suckow noted the agency has "removed all M-44s currently deployed on all land ownerships in Idaho" and has refrained from planting new ones.


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  • (Score: 2) by rts008 on Sunday April 16 2017, @09:56PM (1 child)

    by rts008 (3001) on Sunday April 16 2017, @09:56PM (#494967)

    Comically evil, you say?
    You are comically correct, julian.
    You do realize that these were designed against Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, don'tcha?
    How could they be anything less than comically evil? ;-)

    But all jokes aside, these seem like chemical weapon land mines, and that is evil...just ask that hospitalized 14 year old boy that lost his dog to one of them.

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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday April 17 2017, @01:54AM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Monday April 17 2017, @01:54AM (#495060)

    Coyote killing bombs would have been set BY Wile E, in an attempt to get the Road Runner.

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