Canadian Troops battle 10 foot high marijuana plants!

[Makalakumu]

This is kinda like a B movie...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15239501/?GT1=8618

OTTAWA - Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy — almost impenetrable forests of 10-foot-tall marijuana plants.

Gen. Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana.

"The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It's very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices ... and as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't dodge in and out of those marijuana forests," he said in a speech in Ottawa.

 

[exile]

You'd think that fighting amongst a bunch of burning 3-meter hight marijuana plants would quickly become a little, um, ... haphazard, maybe?

 

[Makalakumu]

One has to wonder how the ambition to fight is maintained...

 

[exile]

One has to wonder how the ambition to fight is maintained...

... or how anyone even managed to remember that they'd been in a fight at all... :ultracool

 

[Rich Parsons]

Maybe they just grow it to sell to fund their warfare?

Hmmm, Drug money used for bad reasons. Who would have thought of that.

 

[exile]

Hmmm, Drug money used for bad reasons. Who would have thought of that.

Aye, there's many a private army been funded out o' them poppy fields...

Wait---sorry---forgot it's not Talk Like a Pirate Day any more :wink1:

 

[Andrew Green]

"We tried burning them with white phosphorus — it didn't work. We tried burning them with diesel — it didn't work. The plants are so full of water right now ... that we simply couldn't burn them," he said.

Go Canada! Find a way!

 

[exile]

Go Canada! Find a way!

Well... we could try asking the plants politely if they wouldn't mind burning, if it weren't too much trouble, thanks...

 

[MSTCNC]

Here's and update from the scene! :ultracool

 

[CoryKS]

Never leave your buds behind!