Circus SWAT?

Jeffrey Kaplan · Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 65

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/16/man_slinger/

"You'd think that with global terrorist threats and fighting two wars,
the US Defense Department would have little time on its hands to start
a circus troupe.

However, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has
filed a patent application for a contraption designed to hurl SWAT
teams and other emergency workers onto the roofs of inaccessible tall
buildings human cannonball style, New Scientist reports."

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