2011 Ig Noble Peace Prize for inventive way to fight illegally parked cars

[chadbag]

http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-fWN0FmcIU

http://www.vilnius.lt/newvilniusweb/index.php/116/?itemID=94256

And yes, we know it is an APC really and not a tank in the technical sense, though today, anything armored seems to be called a tank by the media.

[Kchen986]

That's like punishing shoplifting with summary execution. Effective deterrent? Probably. Just? I wouldn't think so.

[VooDoo6Actual]

Good read thanks.

The NPP comission is all rigged imo.

QED

Not to de-rail the thread BUT anybody else find it ironic that Obama wins the Nobel Peace prize in 09' while simultaneously has the US in more Wars (HIC's/COIN) killing more people (collateral damage) than ever ?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/10/09/us-nobel-peace-obama-idUSTRE5981JK20091009

[kwelz]

The scientific Nobels are given out for good reason, but the peace and public safety Nobels seem to just be political anymore.

[Redmanfms]

These are the Ig Nobel Prizes guys. Ig Nobel as in ignoble.