jamesglewisf
12-03-2000, 01:47 PM
CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/11/30/mobile.gun/index.html) reports:As if all the scare stories about brain cancer, impotence and radiation poisoning weren't enough, there is now a new danger associated with mobile phones: being shot.
In a technological development worthy of a James Bond movie, criminals in Eastern Europe have developed a mobile phone that doubles as .22 calibre pistol.
Ten of the gun-phones were confiscated recently when a Croatian arms dealer was arrested on the border between Croatia and Slovenia.
In a separate incident a hoard of similar devices was seized in the Netherlands after being smuggled in from the former Yugoslavia. Also found in the same arms cache was a gun so tiny it had been disguised as a key-ring. That's pretty cool. Not that I'm in favor of people getting shot.
In a technological development worthy of a James Bond movie, criminals in Eastern Europe have developed a mobile phone that doubles as .22 calibre pistol.
Ten of the gun-phones were confiscated recently when a Croatian arms dealer was arrested on the border between Croatia and Slovenia.
In a separate incident a hoard of similar devices was seized in the Netherlands after being smuggled in from the former Yugoslavia. Also found in the same arms cache was a gun so tiny it had been disguised as a key-ring. That's pretty cool. Not that I'm in favor of people getting shot.