DARPA plots emergency man-cannon

[Foxy Brown]

You'd think that with global terrorist threats and fighting two wars, the US Defense Department would have little time on its hands to start a circus troupe.

However, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has filed a patent application for a contraption designed to hurl SWAT teams and other emergency workers onto the roofs of inaccessible tall buildings human cannonball style, New Scientist reports.
They said "man-cannon."

[ctz]

Why can't they just use helicopters?

Or develop a jetpack instead... It'd way cooler than man-cannon