Neatorama has a great list of the top 10 most ridiculous anti-terroism patents. Some of them, like the Biohazard Suit with Built-In Toilet, just boggle the mind. What kind of ass clown thinks that adding a built-in toilet to a bio-hazard suit is going to do anyone any good. If you are afraid of chemical or biological weapons chances are you are going to have shit yourself long before you managed to get the suit on.

One of my favorites is U.S. Patent 6844817, Aircraft anti-terrorism security system, by Wolfgang Gleine. Issued Jan 18, 2005.

The only thing this brilliant invention is missing is sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their foreheads. If this trap door opened up and just dropped the would be terrorists out of the bottom of the plane I might be able to get behind it but without that is just becomes a rumpus room for the captain that gets stage fright in the cockpit or a flying drunk tank depending on the flight.

Neatorama via Boing Boing