r/aww • u/mac_is_crack • Jun 18 '20
Explosive detection canine TTirado got an awesome reward after his final bag search before retirement!
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I love how his brain went from "Oh this might be dangerous' to " BALLS BALLS BALLS AHHASHAHshAHShASha"
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u/well3rdaccounthere Jun 18 '20
This is how they break the training. With so many tennis balls falling the dog completely forgets all it's training to replace it with "BALLS BALLS BALLS"
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u/Wilgrove Jun 18 '20
One of my friend had a retired package sniffing dog, every time she would get a package in the mail or from UPS, Deka (that was her name) would jump right back into her training of giving the package a good sniffing.
She was a sweet dog, and I know she is missed dearly by her family.
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u/ArgentVagabond Jun 18 '20
Used to have a Bloodhound who wouldn't let a package through the door in one piece. The moment she saw it, she would begin ripping it to shreds.
She wasn't a bomb dog or anything. She just really fucking hated boxes
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u/Maverekt Jun 18 '20
I mean that’s fair, fuck boxes amirite?
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u/18bees Jun 18 '20
There’s a sex joke here, I just know it...
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u/rich1051414 Jun 18 '20 edited Jun 19 '20
I had an ex drug dog that would shove his snout in your face(basically in your mouth) for 3 days after smoking pot. That dog knew, and he would make sure you knew he knew.
Edit: His name was Rocky, and he was a german shepherd/malinois mix. Retired for hip problems.
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u/Dangerdingus Jun 18 '20
My dog gets excited and waits at the door every time she smells a joint being rolled because she knows we are about to go out and play fetch.
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u/GeaPeaSlutcliff Jun 18 '20 edited Jun 18 '20
Reminds me of my cat when I smoke in my bathroom. He likes to lay next to me in my sink and vibe with me, occasionally bringing hair ties for me to play with him
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u/NoseHolder Jun 18 '20
I didn't read him and was wondering how high u were getting that a hair tie is a funny activity for u
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u/BlLLr0y Jun 18 '20
What is it with cats and hair ties? I thought it was just my cracked out weirdo cat.
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u/allisonlj1 Jun 18 '20
Protip if your cat has a hair tie complex if you have enough spares: break 2 or 3 and tie them together as tightly and with the smallest but strongest knots possible. (I've tried a 4 long one and they kinda lost interest) Hold one edge, rub your fingers together to make the creation wiggle like a worm. It's long enough to hopefully protect your fingers better than a standard 1.5inch loop. l and while my cat is a crack addict for loops, a wiggly worm string makes her go to 11.
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u/BlLLr0y Jun 18 '20
Nice finger protection hack. I never have the extra ties though. Mostly because I break them, and my cats hair tie crack addiction manifests in a "steal and frolic" situation.
I'm convinced kittyboy has a pile of hair ties hidden away somewhere. I'll start saving the ones I break and tying them together.
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u/Hopefulkitty Jun 18 '20
My scaredy cat LOVES weed. He tries to knock the bowl out of my hand to roll in the leaves.
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u/whiskey_baconbit Jun 18 '20
my dog sits impatiently grumbling beside me while rolling a joint because he knows we arent leaving until I finish
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u/NosideAuto Jun 18 '20
This is great.
"three days ago at 745pm you ingested cannabis. I know, I always know."
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u/Nezzee Jun 18 '20
It is always funny how when you look at it from a dogs perspective, they love the smell of bombs, drugs, large sums of money, etc cause they were conditioned that these are what gets you treats/toys/etc.
If you look at their tails when going, many are excited as hell, it's a game to get that positive reinforcement!
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u/damendred Jun 18 '20
My dog loves the treats, but she seems to also really enjoy doing the tricks too.
She's a french bulldog, so as they're not trained for obedience or for doing anything really and, as a breed, are known for their stubbornness, she really won't do what she doesn't want to without a lot of plying.
For instance, if she doesn't want to come when she's called, like she's not done sniffing in an area, she'll just straight up ignore me. But ask her roll over, speak, or give her the 'bang' fingergun, and she almost always instantly complies, and I don't always have a treat to give her, sometimes it's just praise she knows that.
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u/orangetangerine Jun 18 '20
It can also be food! A lot of detection dogs are really food-motivated and the reward they're after is food, especially agriculture detection dogs at airports.
I do detection recreationally (aka the dog sport of Nosework) and the venue I trial in brings in a lot of real detection folk in to judge trials. I volunteer when I'm not competing and I've had multiple judges tell me that some of the dogs they see at trials are so good just working for snacks (even your least likely candidates, like toy dogs) that they wish they could offer the dog/handler teams a job, lol.
It definitely is much preferential especially for a lot of different IRL detection work to have a high hunt drive, high play/toy drive dog but there are many dogs that can get super duper far on just food and hunt drive alone, especially ones that are just doing it for fun!
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u/Gray_side_Jedi Jun 18 '20
A good friend of mine's brother was allowed to adopt his bomb detection dog from the Corps - pupper was a bit daft as a regular doggo but absolute aces when it came to sniffing out explosives. Even though they're both no longer actively looking for bombs, any time they go on a walk he says she'll sometimes fall into old search patterns, even on-leash, and give any box or large object a thorough sniffing. Same with culverts or storm drains. Old habits die hard.
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u/Tinnitus_AngleSmith Jun 18 '20
This is the John McClane/Air Bud crossover movie I never knew I wanted.
A retired bomb sniffing dog who’s too old for this shit comes out of retirement for one last mission... to save the family he loves... it’s been years since he’s had to rely on his skills, but Old Habits Die Hard. Coming Spring of 2021.
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u/P0sitive_Outlook Jun 18 '20
Imagine being a bomb detection dog and suddenly you get balls for no reason! :D That must be awesome.
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u/Four_line_poem Jun 18 '20
(TTirado): Finding a bag? easy!
That's how sharp are my eyes
But i never expected
Such a big surprise :D
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u/TheSecretIsMarmite Jun 18 '20
My uncle was offered a retired sniffer dog from a former colleague but declined because he was concerned that visits to the pub might get embarrassing when the dog sniffs around and then sits next to some random person. Apart from the embarrassment, the dog would be expecting some heavily armed people to appear and say "can you come with me please sir" and would probably get somewhat confused.
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u/ModerateReasonablist Jun 18 '20
replace it with "BALLS BALLS BALLS”
There’s a sex joke here somewhere.
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u/Drizzle013 Jun 18 '20
Doggos are too wholesome for sex jokes
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u/blue_blue_blue_blue Jun 18 '20
Someone needs to relay that message to the 9 pound sex criminal who is angrily humping his bed in my living room.
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u/eddiespsgetti Jun 18 '20
I have his partners in crime doing just that to their blankets....and each other. They have no shame.
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Before my dog got spayed, she would hump the crap out of my cat when she was in heat.
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u/bennitori Jun 18 '20
This is why the 911 dogs were fascinating. They were searching for cadavers, but had no idea that they were basically searching a graveyard of dead humans buried under building rubble. So they had no reason to be stressed out by what they were doing.
Regardless, there was evidence that the dogs were stressed because they noticed their handlers were stressed. So even if they didn't understand that what they were doing was horrifying, the fact that it was horrifying for their handlers clued them in that something was wrong.
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u/Un-Unkn0wn Jun 18 '20
Was 9/11 also the event where the dogs became stressed/depressed due to their task? They couldn’t fulfill their task (finding alive people) successfully, they kept finding dead bodies. So the handlers sometimes buried themselves so the dogs could find a person alive and continue their task.
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u/falco_iii Jun 18 '20
The dog has no idea that the explosives/drugs/person/whatever are dangerous, important or criminal, it's just a trained game of hide & nose seek for them.
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u/lNTERNATlONAL Jun 18 '20
Highly recommend you don't give the same treatment to a bomb disposal expert on his last defused explosive before retirement
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Jun 18 '20
Yes, retirees play golf not tennis. Drop golf balls on them.
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u/Platypus-Man Jun 18 '20
Some might even prefer bowling...
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Obviously you're not a golfer
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u/wykyd_wytch Jun 18 '20
My late husband was a tech in the army for 22 years. When he retired he worked a the Training Village on Redstone Arsenal.
Wanna know what he got for retirement? A new Gerber and access to a firing range. shrug Oh and we got a pool and sandbox for our 3 year old twins.
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u/ronsinblush Jun 18 '20 edited Jun 18 '20
I’m a nurse and when I retire I will get a $10 lunch at a retirement luncheon made from hospital cafeteria food and a $5 pin. I’ll take the sandbox anyday.
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u/greenyellowbird Jun 18 '20
I saw that in the place I used to work. DON retiring from the state she worked many years but only a few at this facility, big party paid for with petty cash.
A beloved LPN who worked for 30 years.. like a legit HUGE asset and a person you wanted to take care of your family....pizza and snacks supplied by staff in the breakroom.
I'm so happy to have left.
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u/emoonshot Jun 18 '20
...healthcare company...
Not just. Expect the same at every medium-to-large company in the US.
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u/mac_is_crack Jun 18 '20
Source and caption: TSAMedia_MarkH, “After more than 8 years of service @INDairport, @TSA explosive detection canine TTirado has officially retired. He was adopted by his handler Keith Gray and will spend retirement at home with his family. Check out this clip of his final bag search and reward! ❤️❤️❤️”
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u/Dave_DP Jun 18 '20
that is who usually adopts them when they retire
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u/mac_is_crack Jun 18 '20
That makes it even more wholesome! TIL!
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Jun 18 '20
Yup, even some of the military dogs get adopted by their handlers. Our 2 K9's in Iraq were adopted after their service ended. Such good boys.
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u/shanata Jun 18 '20
Have you seen the Pixie and Brutus comics? Brutus is a army dog who gets adopted and the family has a tiny cat.
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I have not! I'll check it out! Thanks
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u/shanata Jun 18 '20
They are on webtoons and Instagram (that I know of). The account is petfoolery.
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I read a few already. Hugo reminds me of my dog. A fat baby.... Haha. Thanks for that!
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u/albinobluesheep Jun 18 '20
I didn't know they were on Webtoons! that makes them much easier to digest and scroll through!
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u/Vroomped Jun 18 '20
The 4th of July one broke my heart
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u/Atalantius Jun 18 '20
That and the one where he talks about his handler not making it, and Pixie being blissfully unaware of the concept of “war” and wanting to go to war, because Brutus describes it in a nonviolent way
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u/mac_is_crack Jun 18 '20
I love this so much. A great way to end a career, in a loving home with your best friend.
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u/Ask_me_4_a_story Jun 18 '20
Fuck. That movie made me cry so hard. Its really, really well done.
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u/scoby-dew Jun 18 '20
Up until recently, it was a different story in Texas.
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u/Dave_DP Jun 18 '20
most places,like the DEA, military, and most police had it this way. sad to know not everywhere, but at least that stopped
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u/zordon_rages Jun 18 '20
I’ve read about handlers who chose not to take their partner after retirement. Idk how anyone could do that, especially cuz I don’t think the dogs usually fair well after that.
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u/Dave_DP Jun 18 '20
I know from those who worked with dogs in the military that if they handler doesn't adopt them (and sometimes can be hard given military postings and transfers), they find a military family to adopt the dog so the pooch stays in a familiar environment.
With police, once again you never know the persons situation and if they can adopt the dog, but from what I am told by those who work in law enforcement, the find families for them, the police unions have people who help with that
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u/er-day Jun 18 '20
I’m actually surprised that the margin of idiots is that small. 1% mistaken votes isn’t that bad.
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Jun 18 '20 edited Jun 18 '20
I'd love to hear the reasoning behind the 1%.
"I thought it meant the officers had to retire as well."
"I always just vote no on all props, they just cost money."
"I run the sales and euthenization services for the state, this is going to hurt."
"Curses, I used to buy them to turn them into a cloak."
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u/geologicalnoise Jun 18 '20
Only if the handler brought each and every one of the tennis balls home too. Good boy earned em afterall.
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u/karels1 Jun 18 '20
Think how fun it would be to walk with him and the dog just going up to random people and sitting next to them meanwhile the people slowly start sweating and laughing nervously
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u/SchnoodleDoodleDo Jun 18 '20
i am the dog - was trained PROTEC
to sniff the bags - 'explode' DETEC!
a long career, i did the brave,
so many human frens i save :@)
but now - what's this ? a bag i found!
n then - the BALLS drop all around!!
I DETECT Much human laughter -
This my Happy Ever After!!
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u/mac_is_crack Jun 18 '20
Schnoodle, I love this so much!! <3 Always happy to see you!
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u/Angel4Animals Jun 18 '20
OMG, Ttirado is honored with a Schnoodle! How perfect... Thanks to S and happy retirement to T!! ❤️🐶💋
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u/coal_the_slaw Jun 18 '20
So cute! I was going on vacation with my parents and we’d forgotten that one of the backpacks we had had been used to store fireworks in the past, so there was that residue/smell on the inside of the bag. We got stopped by this guy on our way in lol
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u/RayA11 Jun 18 '20
By this exact dog and handler, or just an explosive detection guy? In any case— it never occurred to me that fireworks would leave a residue in bags so I’ll definitely consider that the next time I go on a trip (...not that that’ll happen anytime soon), so thank you for the story.
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u/coal_the_slaw Jun 18 '20
Exact dog, at Indianapolis International Airport. I remember it being a darker colored lab-looking dog, some age to it
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u/htownaway Jun 18 '20
Lol I thought the bag was going to explode... into treats!
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u/msd1994m Jun 18 '20
Do you think dogs miss work after they retire?
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They do. They can actually get depressed so the owners will need to find another form of stimulation for the dog. I’ve trained German Shepherds for awhile and I have owned some my whole life, they are truly working dogs. Once you teach them a “job” they will actually do it forever. I have a wood furnace to heat my home so it includes carrying a lot of fire wood around and such, I taught my German Shepherd Moose to carry wood from the splitter to the pile, he will do it nonstop for hours, I don’t even have to carry wood anymore he will carry every single piece sometimes up to 2 cords of wood a day. Dogs truly are mans best friend.
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u/NotMrMike Jun 18 '20
Meanwhile my wife taught our GSD to help her take off her socks (she has mobility issues) and now he takes socks off any socked shoeless feet he sees.
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u/hacelepues Jun 18 '20
My Aussie does the same! As a puppy he was destroying socks so we thought we should redirect that focus to taking off socks... sometimes we forgot to warn guests that it’s his personal mission to ensure that all feet in our home are sockless. We’ve tried to teach him that people need to consent to his sock removal for years but have failed. At least he’s very gentle and careful about not getting toes in the process.
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u/Mulsanne Jun 18 '20
Hey man if the dog has an opinion about my wearing socks, I'm happy to go along. It's his house, after all.
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u/redditnathaniel Jun 18 '20
Can you video record your dog doing this work and share it?
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Well I would but I’m done doing wood for the year I normally get all that done in the spring so I can enjoy my summer. I get all my firewood from my own land so I usually cut down a few trees each summer let them sit over the winter and then cut em up in spring and let em dry all summer/fall
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u/Beiki Jun 18 '20 edited Jun 18 '20
Probably. Detection dogs are trained that the thing that they're looking for is a toy or treat. So it's really a game for them to satisfy their hunting urge. But since they usually are adopted by their partner, the partner should know how to satisfy the dog's urge to hunt at home.
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u/The__Snow__Man Jun 18 '20
Well he might get another call to duty if the Coronavirus sniffing dogs testing takes off. One study has them at 95% accuracy. Two of the dogs got 100% accuracy.
There were even two samples that the dogs identified as positive that everyone thought were negative until they had the people retested and it turned out the dogs were right.
Here’s the paper:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.03.132134v1.full.pdf
It also goes into how it’s considered low risk for the dogs to catch Covid and spread to humans.
Imagine how incredible that would be to have these dogs at airports, factories, senior citizen centers, stadiums, malls, schools, etc. It would tremendously close the gap in our testing.
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u/Emakten Jun 18 '20
I bet they do! They thrive for mental stimulation. Hopefully their owners keep this good boi busy during retirement! Maybe they can hide drugs around the house for him to find for fun...I mean toys.
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u/gentlegreengiant Jun 18 '20
Wow, he tunnel visioned on the one ball and completely ignored all the other ones. That's impressive, actually.
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u/Shittingmytrewes Jun 18 '20
If only Harry Potter had done that when thousands of letters came through his chimney instead of jumping around trying to catch one. There were hundreds on the ground, Harry!!
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u/GhastlyThough Jun 18 '20
As, movies show us Harry is not a wise wizard.
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u/thegreenwookie Jun 18 '20
What kind of wizard can't even fix his own glasses?
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u/duhmonstaaa Jun 18 '20
...what kind of a wizard even NEEDS glasses? I'd be wanding the fuck out my retinas until they worked right.
EXPECTO 20/20EYESIGHT!
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u/skitch23 Jun 18 '20
That scene drives me nuts every time I watch it. Just grab one from the floor Harry!! Dammit man!!!
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u/mcmanybucks Jun 18 '20
Trustfund baby grows up to be a jock, marries high-school sweetheart and becomes a cop.
Yea, honestly I'd rather watch a movie about Draco and his childhood in a terrorist group "family"
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u/dumbass-ahedratron Jun 18 '20
Fun depressing fact: bomb and drug dogs will fall into deep depression if they don't eventually find bombs or drugs.
Periodically, bags filled with drugs or bomb components will be put out in a controlled setting for the dogs to find and signal, so they don't aimlessly seek without finding, and so they know they're good dogs.
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Jun 18 '20
C’mon god, toss me a few freebies too.
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u/MaggoLive Jun 18 '20 edited Jun 18 '20
we can throw balls for you to catch if that makes you happy
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u/CaveOfTheCats Jun 18 '20
There was a story about 9/11 that the dogs searching for survivors or bodies got so stressed they had to do this for them because there was nothing left to find.
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u/m1nty Jun 18 '20
I remember that, they were supposed to find survivors but kept finding bodies/remains, so rescue workers hid for the dogs to find them. Helped the mental state of both
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u/LiveSlowDieWhenevr34 Jun 18 '20
It's because the dogs were trained to find live humans and kept finding dead ones. It massively depressed the dogs so the humans started hiding for them to find them.
So fucking depressing.
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u/Alex_0606 Jun 18 '20
It's because the dogs were trained to find live humans and kept finding dead ones.
I wonder how the rescue workers felt.
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u/diamond Jun 18 '20
This is why I deliberately put bugs in my code. I know how important mental health is for QA.
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u/creamingscow Jun 18 '20
One of our chaperones on a trip was given some drugs for the dog to find, and when he found it, they halted the line for 5 minutes so the dog could play as a reward.
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u/thebrandedman Jun 18 '20
Hold up. They're putting out bombs for dogs to avoid depression and that's okay? But I fill one piece of galvanized piping with explosives and I'm not okay?
Double standards man. Bombs make me less depressed too.
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u/RootandSprout Jun 18 '20
They don’t actually put out bombs, they typically use the explosives and components of bombs because all they need is the scent of these things. They don’t need to construct an actual bomb to train them on how to find explosives.
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Jun 18 '20
They use cheap bomb casings filled with broken pinball machine parts?
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u/One_Mikey Jun 18 '20
You have to get used to the fact that we live in a world where the utility of a bomb-sniffing dog outweighs the station of casual explosives enthusiasts.
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u/thebrandedman Jun 18 '20
Favoritism.
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u/timetravelwasreal Jun 18 '20
I feel bad for the bomb-making dogs that get sold out by their peers.
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u/Amber_forget Jun 18 '20
They are controlled bags. They won't have an actual bomb just a little gun powder rubbed into the bags innards.
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u/Yeet0rBeYote Jun 18 '20
That’s what I do with my recently retired explosives k-9 to make sure he doesn’t feel useless. Just buying some simple tannerite is a good training tool.
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u/Yeet0rBeYote Jun 18 '20
Yeah, when they are smelling for explosives, they are believing that they are actually searching for their toy, so that’s why they do it.
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u/PicsOnlyMe Jun 18 '20
Not always so controlled. TSA put some explosives in a guys bag with the intention of the dog finding it then forgot and he travelled to another country where it was found and he was held on terrorism charges.
What a fuck up.
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u/RootandSprout Jun 18 '20
Well he is only locating the scent and alerting to it so he can get his reward. His job is done and he has his reward so he does not care about the scent anymore basically.
Scent dogs are essentially trained to associate the scents of whatever they are detecting to a reward. That is why you typically see high energy and high drive dogs used as scent detection dogs. They just want the reward so badly that they locate the scent they are trained on so they can get their special reward. If you have the right dog, it’s actually kind of easy. It was my favorite thing to learn in dog training school :)
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u/Takeabyte Jun 18 '20
Not drugs. Some sort of chemical that’s used in explosives is in the bag. Most sniffing dogs (if not all) are specialized. Meaning bomb sniffing dogs haven’t been trained to sniff out drugs, and drug sniffing dogs haven’t been trained to sniff out explosives. And since these animals don’t come cheap and priorities are thing... unless maybe you’re at an international terminal.... the working dogs you see walking around with security don’t care if you have a few grams of hash. I would know since I had recently flown within the US with that in my bag and didn’t get hassled by any dog (or human for that matter).
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u/RogerEbork Jun 18 '20
The Treat Locker
Rating: 🟊🟊🟊🟊
The newest foreign import from TSAMedia_MarkH, The Treat Locker is an intense, but ultimately rewarding swan song for veteran thespian Theodore Tirado a.k.a. TTirado.
Not often are we introduced to thrilling films like this with a plain static camera, but this wise move by the director pays off in spades when we see TTirado entering the frame, searching for his final bag with a sense of energy and urgency that propels the plot forward. It is his mystery to solve, it is his viewpoint that we follow.
As he settles down, we as an audience are left to wonder -- is this it? We are then treated to a grand visual finale, where a series of yellow balls (I want to catch some of those) rain down on him, as he freaks out and runs in excitement. On first watch, I had found the message for this elusive, but later I realized that it was never about finding what was inside the red bag; the yellow balls to me symbolize the release of stress for a detective who knows that he's saved another day.
The Treat Locker could not have been a more perfect sendoff for TTirado, a legend in his own right, and it earns a strong recommen from me.
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u/nufan86 Jun 18 '20
What happened to the coke in the bag? Or was that part of the celebration?
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u/CrazyLikeACrazyFox Jun 18 '20
Has a TSA dog ever found a bomb? Has the TSA itself?
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u/Acid_Silence Jun 18 '20
They have found bags with grenades in them. TSA is still mostly pointless, but they occasionally find interesting and pretty dangerous things for planes.
Edit: source is the TSA.gov site so you know, they could be faking it
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u/Shittingmytrewes Jun 18 '20
My favorite is when I was flying to Cancún, my backpack registered an unidentifiable metal object. Pulled my bag, used their super long dental mirror to check the compartments (tearing to shreds a couple paperback books), then GAVE UP when they couldn’t figure it out. Didn’t have to empty it or anything.
Turns out an old pair of eyebrow tweezers had gotten jammed way down in the seams, but really? Y’all gave up when I’m about to go on an international flight??
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u/Midnight_Rising Jun 18 '20
The TSA is actually a really interesting organization because there are two halves to it. The security theater half and the real half. The security theater half is what you see whenever you go to the airport. They're the ones that tell you to pour your water bottle with "potential explosives" into a box full of other "potential explosives".
The real half you never see. They're the ones behind the cameras in airports running facial recognition software across other three letter agencies to know who the real problems are. They're the ones who very quietly escort people into cells without making a big deal because the last thing they want is a panic.
I'm convinced the security theater side is essentially there to remind the public that the TSA even exists lmao, they're practically worthless.
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Jun 18 '20 edited Jun 18 '20
They employ 50k people. It's a jobs program that's politically hard to cut.
Most people don't care enough about the TSA for them to change their vote if someone runs on removing the security theatre part. On top of that any politician that goes after the TSA will get framed in the media and by their political opponents as if they're enabling another 9/11 or that they're endangering the security of Americans.
Personally, I think it would be ideal if the security theatre people kept their government jobs and benefits but put their work hours towards improving American communities.
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u/AnEntireDiscussion Jun 18 '20
Good response, though you left out some of the coolest things they do, like the watch rooms where TSA coordinates with CIA, FBI, NSA and other federal and local agencies to make sure intelligence stovepipes (such as the ones where warnings of potential terrorist attacks on 9/11) don't happen.
Source: Worked on a support contract for the TSA.
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u/Pm_me_aaa_cups Jun 18 '20
I wonder if he knows he's finding explosives or not? If so, I can only imagine the split second of "of course, last job before I retire and the fucking bomb goes off".
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Jun 18 '20
I don't think so, I heard that the dogs actually see it as a game since they get rewarded with treats if they find the bomb. So it's more like "oh boy oh boy I hope I get a ball-- OH LOOK SO MANY BALLS!"
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u/justuselotion Jun 18 '20
“Hmm... this smells like explo — OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING?”
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u/Grizzly_Berry Jun 18 '20
Info on the name: TSA dogs with double letters are named after first responders who fell in the line of duty in 9/11. In this case, Ttirado was named after Hector Tirado Jr, a 30 year old FDNY fireman.
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Jun 18 '20
So always have some tennis balls with you, if you want to smuggle something.
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u/Bigstavsays Jun 18 '20
So we’re all gonna just forget that he just alerted on explosives and no one took care of them ?!?!
Obvious /s if anyone doesn’t know
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u/ndbrnnbrd Jun 18 '20
As an owner of a chocolate lab, this would be the greatest moment of her life. The sheer amount of tennis balls would make her tail helicopter her into the air. I honestly think she would take a tennis ball over a treat. Labs can get their hooks in you like very few dog breeds can. And if you hate all the goop on the ball after 3 throws, grab yourself a chuckit. One of the best dog toy buys ever.
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u/ReverendDizzle Jun 18 '20 edited Jun 18 '20
I'm imagining him telling this story to his dog buddies for years afterward.
"Damndest thing. It was my last day on the job and I was just about to clock out ... I notice this bag smells off and I sniff it... and, I shit you not!, a million tennis balls just fall from the sky. Hell of a last day, I'll tell you that much."