Reminds me of the plan during World War II to trap foxes, paint them luminescent green, and use them to terrify the Japanese garrison on Okinawa. Well, maybe some of the Japanese would have died laughing. Negative publicity of the green foxes project due to a practice release of them on Manhattan, caused the cancellation of this waste of taxpayer money.
Bats in the Belfry
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
It is reported in the Russian Primary Chronicle, in the time before the conversion of SS Olga and Vladimir, that a Russian leader besieging a city had the swallows that left that city each evening netted alive, then fitted with a low slow-match. The birds carried the fire back to their nests in the thatched houses and set the city aflame.