Back when Sgt. Joe Friday was out protecting the innocent, playing gun-slinging straight-laced police officer, 1960’s television hero, he could never have imagined the gunfight and carnage that is about break out in Chicago’s sanitary zone.
I can see it know… Sgt. Joe Friday interviews a Captain in the US Army Corp Engineers. In a mature and timbre voice: “Just tell me the facts ma’am. Just tell me the facts.”
April 29, 2011 AP - CHICAGO — A "gun" that shoots powerful pulses of water might be used to keep Asian carp from slipping into Lake Michigan near a Chicago shipping lock if testing this summer determines it wouldn't damage the structure, an official from the U.S Geological Survey said Thursday.
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| "Hey Charlie, I'm kind of beaten up and bloody from those water guns. I think we're going to have to call your cousin in China and import our own bighead guns." |
The water cannon, which creates enough energy to deter or kill fish, could be positioned near the lock, the point where some fear the invasive carp could get into the lake if the fish somehow got through electrical barriers already operating in canals farther inland, said Leon M. Carl, USGS regional executive.
"My guess is that this would stop them ... and that would be to me something that we'd really like to have in place," Carl told The Associated Press after a public hearing, calling the water guns an "urgent" measure to deter and control the carp. http://online.wsj.com/article/AP17a27286f1b3417d98c0fa1b84bcac02.html
What the heck? We spend $19 million to build the Chicago Sanitary Barrier and Ship Canal, which emits 15 electric pulses per second to repel Asian carp and shock them if they venture too close. Now we’re going to spend another several thousand dollars for each water gun to bloody and shoot them up? Sounds like a video game in the making.
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