Just thought I would start another humour thread off.
The perpose of this thread is share tails of heroic failures, or other sorts of stupidity. They can either be true to life things that have happened to you or your friends, or things you have read about. My only request is you keep them true, to the best of your knowledge.
I will start with a couple
Firstly, from WWII.
The russians trained up dogs to recognise the underside of tanks as haveing food, so explosives could then be strapped to them, and used to destroy German tanks (Interesting idea, if a bit hard on the dogs). It proved easy to ge the dogs to associate tanks with food, so the plan was put into operation. Unfortuantly on the first time it was actually tried in a battle, it was discovered the dogs only associated RUSSIAN tanks with food, not german, and so forced a Russian formation to retreat from their own "secret" weapon. The plan was abandoned after this.
Another case was of military stupidity was when a Royal naval team had entered a yacht race. It managed to finish one of the legs of the race in first place, and recived a gun salute from a royal navel vessel that was in port at the time. Unfortunaly the shot from the salute managed to hit the yachts sail, and the team had to spend the time they had gain by winning repairing the sail.
Hugs
lilnymph
