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A comment on Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of Strategic Services.

Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by wolfgang42 on Thursday June 09, 2022 @12:42AM (#31677623)
My favorite bit of advice:

> Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.

How do you go about surreptitiously obtaining several dozen large moths?

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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by ruined on Thursday June 09, 2022 @01:47AM (#31677946)
this manual is several decades old. large moths (the size of your palm) used to be very common, and still are in some remote places. you could catch them easily near any lamp after sundown.
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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by ericbarrett on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:42AM (#31678585)
The Bay Area used to have cercropia moths in the surrounding foothills. They are enormous, 8" or more, and their wing flapping makes an incredible basso profondo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyalophora_cecropia

I haven't seen one in decades. No idea if there are any left.

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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by andromeduck on Thursday June 09, 2022 @04:31AM (#31678873)
Used to live in an attic in the presidio. Pretty sure one of these mfs flew into my face one time as I was on my phone, trying to read myself to sleep. Terrible experience.
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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by redwood on Thursday June 09, 2022 @05:52AM (#31679328)
Scary to think about the ecosystem implications of that
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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by daniel-cussen on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:59AM (#31681204)
Leave a lot of cotton clothes in a closet without mothballs.
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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by swader999 on Thursday June 09, 2022 @12:46AM (#31677649)
Porch light in a dark rural location.
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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by artificialLimbs on Thursday June 09, 2022 @12:44AM (#31677636)
…and getting them in a paper bag?
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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by datashaman on Thursday June 09, 2022 @01:16AM (#31677789)
A butterfly net
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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by homero on Thursday June 09, 2022 @01:07AM (#31677746)
Vacuum
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Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of S... by HideousKojima on Thursday June 09, 2022 @02:40AM (#31678200)
They clearly got the idea from the opening scene of Strange Brew.
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