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Disguise Expert Helps Housefly Enter Witness Protection

Posted on 03.24.06 by Widge @ 4:04 pm
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Louis Friend has become the first man to develop disguises that houseflies can use, thus paving the way for more insects to be able to enter into witness protection after testifying against organized crime. "The problem," Friend stated, "has always been that well, they'd testify, but they'd get swatted by the mob--literally--within minutes of leaving court. We almost saw a case get thrown out of court after an entire day's worth of witnesses were lost to a flystrip. Now, we can promise protection to the flies by making them unrecognizable and getting them to safety." When it's pointed out that houseflies don't live that long, and most of them die before they can make it to a safehouse regardless, Friend waves that away. "That doesn't mean they're not people."

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Okay, we're lying bastards. Some scientists got bored, made little glasses and stuck them on a fly. But that's not nearly as much fun as our bullshit idea.

Maybe. Okay, well, maybe not.

Found via MAKE Blog.

Widgett Walls is Need Coffee's Chief Cook and Bottle Washer. He is the author of the novel Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point, and two collections of short stories, Magnificent Desolation and Something Else: The Complete First Season. He is also co-author of the children's book There's a Zombie in My Treehouse! All of those books are available in paperback or for the Kindle from Amazon. He is also the narrator and publisher of the first unabridged recording of Seneca's letters, available here. He is active on both Twitter and Facebook. (If you befriend him on Facebook, do say you came via Need Coffee.) He lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. He hardly ever sleeps.

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