This is hilarious, in a sick sorta way

[unixronin]

Car & Driver went to Baghdad to road-test M1114 up-armored Humvees.  The Patriots (1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery, 4th Bridage Combat Team, US Army 3rd Infantry Division, out of Fort Stewart, Georgia), whcih whom writer Jerry Garrett was "embedded", tell this story:

But the Oscar goes to ... "the donkey bomb", in which an insurgent tried to strap a saddlebag full of explosives and a cellphone-activated detonator onto a donkey he tried to drag out into traffic.  Donkeys being as stubborn as they are, the animal wouldn't move.  Then someone called the guy on his cell phone...

'Tis sport to see the Engineer / Hoist with his own petard -- Wm. Shakespeare

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Sounds Snopesworthy.

[zeekar.livejournal.com]

I don't see anything about it there yet, but it definitely has the feel of an urban legend. :)