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25 Responses to “BBC Newsnight: UK Bans Exports of “Bomb Detecting” Dowsing Rods”
Really those are just words. No one knows why the dowsing effect works, but a knowledge of the item looked for will help detect it. We bought a Yahtzee game and misplaced it immediately. Dowsed and found it in wife’s bedroom under huge pile of papers, but found the one I bought under car seat much later. Thought I had it all the time but it was wife’s unit. I picked up the same type of item and followed the turns of the rods to locate it. Weird. The last place I would have looked.
Busted!… Hell if you’re going to pull off a scam like that and sell them for $40,000 each, you could at the very least afford to put a couple of electronic components in it to make it look a little bit authentic.
One keyword: corruption. These people aren’t stupid, they knew it didn’t work, but when officials gets his 50% share from each device, then why not. A similar scam is unfolding in Thailand, the “GT200″ they have thousands of it there, and people are dying on a daily basis because of its usage.
Thanks America and thank Great Britain.
You removed the devil from Iraq.
Only to show us that you are way worse than him.
You caused the killing of more innocent Iraqis, you stole more wealth from Iraqi resources, you demolished Iraq’s economy in the most horrible manner, you wasted billions on the so called infra-structure that does not exist, and you appointed a corrupt Iraqi government that this video demonstrates one of their crimes against the Iraqis. Thanks guys, thanks bastards
A good dowser could do this with only a set of dowsing rods and not look like an idiot. He may have to have knowledge of the item he is looking for, to find it. I use it to find things I misplace. You can find missing people, gold, silver, coal, and oil and about anything else. You can make those out of coat hangers or brass or welding rods. It looks like magick, but it is not. It is all in the mind and therein is any success of this device.
Am iraqi and i live in baghdad
i swear that those devices is like ma shit
u know wat it detect ??
perfume bottles , Toilet papers , drugs , and off course ma fuckin brown shit
thats all wat it can do
i always stopped by the checkpoints wen it detect somthin and asked do u carry a weapon ??
off course NO so the answer No i show them the perfume and he takes it put it outside the Car and he check it again this time Nothin so its the perfume .
I remember seeing that iraki twat saying that if they were to use dogs to detect bombs it would be a zoo in Baghdad.
Better a lot of dog shit to pick up than human parts, no ? Apparently not… Useless morons.
I think I may have posted only 2 or 3 comments in my 4 years having a YouTube account. This video has made me so disgusted that I can’t help but to comment. It’s hard to imagine that McCormick could possibly believe this thing works. He really should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I truly hope he gets charged. Shame shame shame.
This man should be hanged for his atrocious crime, though at the same time I almost admire him for pulling off a scam of this magnitude. I’m utterly perplexed as to how he did this successfully. I find it difficult to believe that the Iraqis would make such an expensive and critical purchase without confirming the functionality of the units.
Then again, I’m continually amazed with just how stupid human beings can be. I mean, I really can’t believe this happened. Dowsing for bombs? Seriously?
Iraqi Interior Minister and his thugs whose ignorance costed us dearly should resign on spot. The so-called Iraqi Parliment shoud vote on the resign of those security leaders. A group of failures.
They are desparat people.
They’ll do anything to stop the bombs.
and this is what conmen pray on, just like people who talk to that dead. praying on people who are sad, over the loss of a loved one
I think that the error is from the Iraqi government. Because the law does not protect the ignorant. If the Iraqi government has given huge sums of money to the poor. To Iraq was now free of beggars. The reason is Iraq and the government lost a total of thieves. Aim to rob Iraq and escape
And people ask “what’s the harm in new age stuff”? This is the harm! Setting up people to be easily fooled by simple trickery like the ideomotor effect.
February 21st, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Really those are just words. No one knows why the dowsing effect works, but a knowledge of the item looked for will help detect it. We bought a Yahtzee game and misplaced it immediately. Dowsed and found it in wife’s bedroom under huge pile of papers, but found the one I bought under car seat much later. Thought I had it all the time but it was wife’s unit. I picked up the same type of item and followed the turns of the rods to locate it. Weird. The last place I would have looked.
February 21st, 2010 at 6:05 pm
@cody8145 look up ideomotor effect.
February 21st, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Busted!… Hell if you’re going to pull off a scam like that and sell them for $40,000 each, you could at the very least afford to put a couple of electronic components in it to make it look a little bit authentic.
February 21st, 2010 at 7:41 pm
One keyword: corruption. These people aren’t stupid, they knew it didn’t work, but when officials gets his 50% share from each device, then why not. A similar scam is unfolding in Thailand, the “GT200″ they have thousands of it there, and people are dying on a daily basis because of its usage.
February 21st, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Thanks America and thank Great Britain.
You removed the devil from Iraq.
Only to show us that you are way worse than him.
You caused the killing of more innocent Iraqis, you stole more wealth from Iraqi resources, you demolished Iraq’s economy in the most horrible manner, you wasted billions on the so called infra-structure that does not exist, and you appointed a corrupt Iraqi government that this video demonstrates one of their crimes against the Iraqis. Thanks guys, thanks bastards
February 21st, 2010 at 8:08 pm
$40K a piece?!? This guy needs to go to jail!
February 21st, 2010 at 8:30 pm
A good dowser could do this with only a set of dowsing rods and not look like an idiot. He may have to have knowledge of the item he is looking for, to find it. I use it to find things I misplace. You can find missing people, gold, silver, coal, and oil and about anything else. You can make those out of coat hangers or brass or welding rods. It looks like magick, but it is not. It is all in the mind and therein is any success of this device.
February 21st, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Hes one of the worst human being in the world.
February 21st, 2010 at 9:07 pm
For more information about these scams, you can search for my blog, SniffexQuestions.
February 21st, 2010 at 9:20 pm
and wat makes u laugh that the soldiers knows that but they can’t do nothin its the fuckin ORDERS
FUCK , we live in a joke
February 21st, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Am iraqi and i live in baghdad
i swear that those devices is like ma shit
u know wat it detect ??
perfume bottles , Toilet papers , drugs , and off course ma fuckin brown shit
thats all wat it can do
i always stopped by the checkpoints wen it detect somthin and asked do u carry a weapon ??
off course NO so the answer No i show them the perfume and he takes it put it outside the Car and he check it again this time Nothin so its the perfume .
February 21st, 2010 at 10:27 pm
يا غبي
February 21st, 2010 at 10:42 pm
I remember seeing that iraki twat saying that if they were to use dogs to detect bombs it would be a zoo in Baghdad.
Better a lot of dog shit to pick up than human parts, no ? Apparently not… Useless morons.
February 21st, 2010 at 11:00 pm
I think I may have posted only 2 or 3 comments in my 4 years having a YouTube account. This video has made me so disgusted that I can’t help but to comment. It’s hard to imagine that McCormick could possibly believe this thing works. He really should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I truly hope he gets charged. Shame shame shame.
February 21st, 2010 at 11:41 pm
This man should be hanged for his atrocious crime, though at the same time I almost admire him for pulling off a scam of this magnitude. I’m utterly perplexed as to how he did this successfully. I find it difficult to believe that the Iraqis would make such an expensive and critical purchase without confirming the functionality of the units.
Then again, I’m continually amazed with just how stupid human beings can be. I mean, I really can’t believe this happened. Dowsing for bombs? Seriously?
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:28 am
Murdering coward
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:23 am
This is really sad.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:01 am
These numbers are outvalued
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:27 am
هذا الي ازعجك فقط انه علقت ، ما ازعجك الفيديو ؟!!!!!!!
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:28 am
Iraqi Interior Minister and his thugs whose ignorance costed us dearly should resign on spot. The so-called Iraqi Parliment shoud vote on the resign of those security leaders. A group of failures.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:33 am
يعني انت عبقرينو؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:43 am
They are desparat people.
They’ll do anything to stop the bombs.
and this is what conmen pray on, just like people who talk to that dead. praying on people who are sad, over the loss of a loved one
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:54 am
عراق الاغبياء
Iraq’s new for stupids
February 22nd, 2010 at 3:45 am
I think that the error is from the Iraqi government. Because the law does not protect the ignorant. If the Iraqi government has given huge sums of money to the poor. To Iraq was now free of beggars. The reason is Iraq and the government lost a total of thieves. Aim to rob Iraq and escape
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:07 am
And people ask “what’s the harm in new age stuff”? This is the harm! Setting up people to be easily fooled by simple trickery like the ideomotor effect.