Taliban Use PlayStation Controller as Detonator Device

**6souls** · 2010-03-01 15:46

It appears Sony's PlayStation really does do everything like their TV commercials state, as recently gamingtarget shared a video on YouTube of Taliban militants who use PlayStation Controllers as a detonator device in Afghanistan.

To quote: "Veteran war correspondent for Fox News Channel Steve Harrigan discovered that militants got their hands on a familiar game controller-turned-detonator while he was embedded with U.S. and Afghan troops last year in Jaji, Afghanistan.

There, troops raided a suspected bomb-making house thanks to an Afghan informant who was paid $2,000.

“A farmer’s house, in a locked shed: jackpot,” he exclaims before almost poetically listing what troops found inside. It is an enemy, they can build weapons even out of garbage.

The garbage Harrigan refers to includes a clear-blue original PlayStation controller, one that’s so old it pre-dates the dual analog sticks.

“Something as simple [that] a solider may've thrown out, because their Sony PlayStation was broken, can be used as an initiator device,” explains an unidentified U.S. Army Ranger who was holding the controller and involved in the operation."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIbqUhqC-zE

http://www.ps3news.com/General-Off-T...onator-device/
http://www.gamingtarget.com

**Khajit** · 2010-03-01 15:50

You lost the game but they won it?

**Not Kuno** · 2010-03-01 15:51

Wow they got their ps3s working before we did?

**Kerberoz** · 2010-03-01 15:56

Shit with buttons can open or close an electrical circuit? Fuck!

**Priran** · 2010-03-01 16:04

please obama make playstations illegal so we can be safe from the turrists

**skedel neuker** · 2010-03-01 16:14

no job + smoke copious amounts of opium + hate america = innovation

**The Stig** · 2010-03-01 16:15

Wow shit I was carrying a PS2 Controller on the way home today from work too!

**Qalbert** · 2010-03-01 16:17

Originally Posted by Not Kuno

Wow they got their ps3s working before we did?

beat me to the joke ;_;

**Tajin** · 2010-03-01 16:18

That's what I call a rumble function.

**Acturus** · 2010-03-01 16:23

Brings a whole new meaning when using the term "d-pad".

**Qalbert** · 2010-03-01 16:32

What would you blow up to save someone you love? Hold L1+R1+O+X to detonate.

**Atreides** · 2010-03-01 16:33

just a matter of time before video games are banned on planes altogether

**Purrrfect** · 2010-03-01 17:08

Originally Posted by Atreides

just a matter of time before people are banned on planes altogether

long term solution

**GRT** · 2010-03-01 17:33

So what's the detonation sequence? Quarter-circle forward + X?

**The Stig** · 2010-03-01 17:36

Originally Posted by GRT

So what's the detonation sequence? Quarter-circle forward + X?

No, it's LP, LP, Forward, LK, HP

**Chun Liroy** · 2010-03-01 17:36

SHORYUKEN

**Overburn** · 2010-03-01 17:37

Originally Posted by Silentleroy

SHORYUKEN

Wouldn't Hadouken be more appropriate for an explosion?

**Chun Liroy** · 2010-03-01 17:38

I don't speak SF

**Tricen** · 2010-03-01 17:38

^ ^ V V < > < > A B A B START

**Cream Soda** · 2010-03-01 17:44

back, forward, forward-down, down, down-back, back, forward, circle

sup playas

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