Hi also from England u being Irish must hate us lol anyway keep the content coming and hope to see more last moments maybe on Chernobyl as I know everything thing on it literally any way thx for reading
Can I suggest a idea for another episode. Could you cover the Misadventure of the Russian Baltic fleet during the Russo-japanes war . The story is hilarious as we see how incompetent the Russians were killing hundreds of people before seeing combat. Please look it up I beg you the story is hilarious
Yup. Con man. My economics teacher in highschool told me to watch out for dudes like this. Swindle you in and you wonder why your credit is shit after a couple of months.
Here in germany people are selling a "EMF deleting device" that you plug into a socket and has onlx a LED light in it for 350 euros. And thousands of people are still buying it. Production value 2 euros. They advertise it by "creating a shield around the user" and even helps with all kinds of diseases and heals tinnitus lmao Qixr should make a video about that
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti they have something like that in hte USA too. its a flash drive u plug into ur computer to generate a 5G shield. cant make this stuff up
When I lived in Mexico as a child, the military would walk through our streets with these devices that they claimed were “gun detectors,” and would break into houses to take our guns and any other possessions away, saying that the detector found guns in our house and that warranted entrance into our homes.
Take our guns😂 its so weird to me how police and military at the individual soldier or officer level can be filled with more corrupt people than expected when most people are half decent following the pareto distrubution
That's what the device was really for... countries with a poor civilian population and an authoritarian government who wanted the thin illusion of probable cause- whether it was to look for and confiscate guns, *or* ignore an illegal operation such as drug/human smuggling that needed the illusion of being on the level, it filled each role perfectly. *That* was this evil little bas*ard's true role; to facilitate state sponsored corruption.
Where did anyone say anything at all about it being lucky? He wanted a method to find golf _balls_ plural - As in: Other people's. ...Talk about hearing what you want to hear.
I live in Iraq , I remember that this device was used in most checkpoints …. Many people were telling this is a useless fake bomb detector but the government and army were still using it 🙂
@@handsomejack7901 I don't know man. if the US fall for it. surely other country would fall for it. religion is not really the reason here. Well unless you believe in scientology which is a whole different thing
I once worked as a security officer in Syria . When I started working they handed me this device to check cars for explosives. Being an electrical engineer I questioned the theory of operation and I realized right away that this is a scam. I confronted the director of security and he told me "just tilt it if you suspect any car or you feel like searching any and this is to give the illusion that we can detect bombs"...I was dumbfounded because here in Syria it is still used by the army in every check point.
so its more used to fake probably cause, or make it seem like they are justified in their actions. Atleast they are just being scummy, and dont actually believe in it I guess?
See? When used correctly, it works. Just don't let the secret that it doesn't really work out. It's like you're a -magician- illusionist preforming tricks on the minds of miscreants. 😉
I'm in a Middle East history class, and we were just talking about Iraq, and these detectors came up. The note for this in my notebook is literally "those bomb detectors that Qxir talked about".
I’m from Thailand and the GT200 is so infamous that when the scandal emerged, me and my classmates made ourselves some replicas from cardboard and play pretend with them around the school lmao. Fun times.
I remember hearing that when buying one of these you had to sign a contract that said you weren't allowed to open them or else you would have to pay a multi million dollar fine. Supposedly, in opening them, they would send a signal that would be picked up immediately by satellites and notify the manufacturer.
@@dannylamb456 reminds me of the Spongebob episode where the pirate treasure map opened by itself and then they discovered that the whole thing was a sham. Actually, fairly similar.
I see this as a prime example of getting way over in your head. Just sell these things for golf balls, maybe baseballs, carkeys if you're really ambitous and nothing else. Stuff a few blinking lights into the things and make a customer loyalty program, slap on a disclaimer that says it's "fragile, may need to be recalibrated" a free warranty that lasts for 2 months which is voided if you tamper with the product. Whenever there's a advancement in computer technology, slap on another half month to the warranty.
I think you might be missing a critical angle here. The reason a lot of otherwise intelligent cops might go along with it is because they realize they can use the device to give them “reasonable suspicion” under any circumstances assuming they could manipulate the device to make it behave how they wanted
He sorta addressed this at 9:00 - But yeah, it's a point that could've been expanded on. Maybe some were "in" on it. It's funny how psychology works if you do things in a convincing enough way.
Idk, we are talking about two vastly, vastly different interpretations here. Very much paints cops as evil geniuses. Im on the side of human stupidity over brilliant conspiracy theory every time. Maybe a few people knew they were junk and abused them, but someone tried to find a dead child with one. The vast majority just didnt know any better
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 You don't have to be an evil genius to be a dirty liar. They knew it was essentially just a dowsing rod for drugs. They could just say it pointed at someone and that would give them reasonable suspicion, legally. And yeah, I'm sure whoever sold it to the police agencies told them exactly how the thing works, probably down at the Masonic lodge. Conspiracies do happen. There's plenty of reason to assume it's a conspiracy. It's so obviously corrupt that it is a conspiracy, in fact. No doubt about it, this time.
I was an explosive detection dog handler in Iraq and came across a few of these being used by the Iraqi military and police. They were incredibly proud of them and eager to show them off. I got a good look at the first one I saw and immediately realized there was no way it could possibly work. At the time I had no idea it was a modified golf ball detector. I tried to tell them it couldn't work but they wouldn't believe me. I also didn't realize until watching this video that even as a golf ball detector it was a fraud.
How does it feel knowing you were more than willing to let a dog die in a war? How does it feel knowing you aided in helping out the people who left 4,000 dogs to die in veitnam? That dog had no idea of the dangers he was in, but you were, and you were happy to put him in those dangers of your own volition, that's absolutely disgusting. Thank the dog for his service and I hope you aren't anywhere near them. American soldiers have been pathetic and fighting nothing any time after ww2. The only soldiers after that who aren't absolute wastes of human life were the ones who aided the koreans.
These were still in use in Lebanon up until 2017 as far as I know. Pretty much every mall used to have a couple of guards with this thing at parking entrances, idk if they still do. The Nepali army and police also procured a few during the civil war, but I've never seen one in use. The District Inspector General of Kathmandu showed me one after the war, stating that they'd found random stops to be more accurate that this thing.
What I love about these kinds of devices is that they somehow seem to manage to improve statistics although it only works by the user’s intuition. Although it is so effective people only want to trust their intuition if a expensive device validates them.
It's not just a matter of validation and trust- This device allows the police grounds for "reasonable suspicion" to search a bag they otherwise wouldn't have been allowed to search It gives them more legal leeway to act on their intuition And it gives more leeway for police harassment and misconduct, double edged sword and all that...
turns out it isn't fraud if you write "this whole thing is a sick joke lmao thanks for the money idiot" on the box i am curious as to how the device saw effective use in schools and in police work when it literally had no means of functioning is it safe to assume the boost in numbers was brought on by enabling the user to search persons who normally would need to be more suspicious before the search&seizure would be allowed?
that's what i'm thinking. The device was purely a reason to do a thorough manual check. The operator would probably "detect contraband" on people that they personally found suspicious. This is also why i think far more people knew it was bullshit than not but they also knew the device gave them power to circumvent privacy laws so they went with they flow.
Reminds me of the very good study done using certified police drug dogs in California. Only 3 of the dogs passed the test out of 128 or so. The test proved the dogs were better at wanting to please the handler by reading his unconscious movements if the "handler" thought there were drugs present. In the entire exercise, no drugs were actually in the rooms but the doors of half of the so called planted rooms had a red piece of paper on the door. The handlers were told this. All the dogs but 3 indicated drugs in the marked rooms.
@「 Deadpoppin 」 Well.. yeah actually. Polygraph is basically a heartbeat seismagraph. That's it. It's more an intimidation and physiological technique used to put the person in a state where they are nervous of their lies. In reality, it has nothing to do with the truth or lies, it's about reading a person. Increased heart rate isn't an accurate lie detector.
@「 Deadpoppin 」 Of course silly me, your right. Such a well thought out reply, I can tell you put effort into it and did your research. How could I have been so wrong? -_-
quadro tracker probably worked well for the school because it was essentially a way of letting teachers pretend they weren't being biased when searching the students they already knew were a problem
@@Triggernlfrl no I'd say the most gullible people are people like your self people who refuse to believe scientific data and believe that it's some world wide plot for governments to control people and call people sheep
im shocked nobody ever took one of these things with a person who believes their use and tell them "in a 1 mile radius is 3 brief cases, one has a bomb the others are empty, go find it" have them track it and be sure they found the real deal and reveal to them that none of the cases had a bomb or anything bomb-like period and tell them if that thing was even remotely functional it would have known they were being tricked
I bet the excuses would be never ending; it had traces of bomb or shared some materials with a bomb or was the same color as the photo of the bomb. People dumb enough to believe it in the first place would just double down on belief.
@@randomusermaximuss that is undoubtable true......though with that proof in hand, it wouldn't take much to convince the powers that be that they might be or are being swindled....and since the Iranian government is amongst those, I imagine some beheadings would follow
Back when this was a scandal in Thailand, there was an attempt to actually test how effective this is. The results was, as you expect, no better than picking at random. A professor at some university almost X-ray them to see what's inside too, but an army whistleblower came out saying he dropped it and it broke and there's nothing inside.
@@mace8873 no dice, they will just accuse you of carving out it's insides. What you really need to do is give them a time limit and once they fail, tell them you never hid a case in the first place.
I'd wager it wasn't even a conspiracy and the charges of fraud were to shut the original seller up lest he accidentally let it slip and cause embarrassment. Less embarrassing for the government spooks if they can say they "found out" about a scam.
Growing up in Mexico I heard about this kind of thing from friends whose parents drove to the US. They said that the military had super advanced tools at the border that could detect firearms or drugs inside a car 10 meters away in seconds. A good deterrent for anyone gullible enough (?)
I remember the GT200 in Thailand when I lived there. They appeared when the bombing started in the south. People were desperate and believed anything. They always looked like BS to me with them swinging all over the place. It was quite the scandal when the fraud was revealed.
Dude thats actually really smart. Send the "inventors" into active landmine zones with their devices and tell them if they make it across in one piece they're free. Watch them put on their own cuffs and walk into the police van
First: I was turning 'round and 'round on UA-cam, hoping to be saved from my pathetic loneliness, and there pops the last Qxir video. Me felt blessed. Second: My favorite Irish proceeds to describe the ride he crafts with so much talent, and i have to say, you know your sh*t bro': Rapid loss of hope in humanity is probably my favorite hobby. ;D Joke aside, man you're good at what your doing!
Much like Randonautica, you’re guaranteed to find more gold than the person who didn’t look. I honestly don’t blame these people; don’t forget Ouija Boards have movies based on them.
I've only recently subbed, and I'm fascinated with every single story you cover. Your animatics add a real charm to the more lighthearted historical videos.
They actually drove around with one of these conmen, with the intent of seeing if it could detect the vehicle with explosives in it. The kicker? The vehicle they were in was the one with explosives, and the tracker never detected it.
This story was a big news back when I was in high school because, well, my home country is among several countries Qxir has mentioned besides Iraq. The worse thing is that high-ranked political and military figures responsible for purchasing those pieces of shite are still yet to be prosecuted and still around in the government, while a lot of innocent people were wrongfully convicted. A top forensic expert has lost the credibility for defending that product. One thing I recall is that there was a press conference where they held a test for this so-call detector, and it ended up nowhere better than a good old random guessing.
Love the "clear the minefield" with their own piece of shit device punishment ! Lmao....great illos in this one , man ! Like you say , how can people be so gullible and credulous ?! Essentially the thing was a telescoping antenna , as seen on old radios and walkie-talkies , attached to a swivel in an empty plastic handle ! Lmao. I like the souped up deluxe presentation kit in the briefcase to make it look fancy ! Keep up the great work , pal !
We had an issue like this in Lebanon few years back too! It was used by many mall security companies until news reports showcasing how it does not work emerged.
The golf ball detector, while a fraud, was at least meant to be harmless. It's such a shame that what was more or less a practical joke was turned into a full-on scam. And then when someone tried to step in to stop the abuse, it only got far, far, worse....
Found this channel on Friday via either Fascinating Horror or Plainly Difficult. Watched a couple Last Moments, then found the dead jockey video. It's Sunday evening and I've just cleared all of the Tales from the Bottle... Great work man, subscribed!
Let's be real the police love this thing, not because it actually works but because it looks official and gives them probable cause to search randomly.
Gotta love America. In America the manufacturer has to give up the source code to the defendant so we are able to verify the detectors as being real or fake.
I'm surprised the police haven't already announced they're using it as a general drug detector. Much easier than training a dog to "indicate" on command.
The governments/law enforcement that used these knew they didn’t work. If you need to search someone and don’t have probable cause, it’s as easy as tilting your wrist and saying “My detection device says you have something illegal, get out of the car and turn out your pockets”
Fun Story: A similar thing happened to Marine First Recon in the invasion of Iraq. They thought they saw a column of tanks moving across the desert at night with headlights on. It was actually a town much further away that wasn't moving at all. But because it was dark and there was no frame of reference, Autokinesis, the unconscious micromovements of your own eyes, made them perceive movement where there was none. Some of the Marines knew about Autokinesis, but the ones who didn't passed the info up to command and before anyone could realize the mistake planes were already in the air and dropping bombs. Subsequent aircraft reported readings on thermal and bombed those, but it was likely just hot debris from previously dropped bombs. Millions of dollars were wasted bombing an empty desert. Read Generation Kill, it's a good goddamn book.
@@MISTAKEWASMADE4live because they mistook the town lights for the headlights of tanks they misidentified the range to target , estimating a town 14 kilometers away as being tanks something like 3 kilometers away. The bombs fell very short of the town. That's how range estimation works when you can't use any range finders, you take a known quantity, like the distance between the headlights on a T-72, and you use that to estimate how far away it is. But obviously the distance between two house lights is way farther so your ranging will be way off.
Qxir, I actually had one of these devices and let me tell you, they actually work! It helped me find my wife’s wedding ring. Turns out it was on the nightstand in her boyfriend’s flat!
We had xrays of that device showing there was no internal circuitry that we passed over to the Iraqi military, and they still didn't believe it didn't work.
"If the everyday operations of your job require you to have have a toolkit which includes lethal weapons, and you add a magic fucking wand to that toolkit, someone should look into having your access revoked." -Qxir, 2021
Perp 1: Oh shit ! We have 5 kilos and they have a roadblock ahead !!!! Perp 2: Don't sweat it , man . They're using the Quadro Detector . Perp 1: In that case bust me out a line while we wait our turn !
It's hard to even conceive a worse non-violent crime than selling bomb detectors that do not detect bombs to people who live in countries full of bombs.
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Hi love the vids from Britain keep them coming
Oklahoma bombing video when?
Hi also from England u being Irish must hate us lol anyway keep the content coming and hope to see more last moments maybe on Chernobyl as I know everything thing on it literally any way thx for reading
Kick every tut in your head...LOL
Can I suggest a idea for another episode. Could you cover the Misadventure of the Russian Baltic fleet during the Russo-japanes war . The story is hilarious as we see how incompetent the Russians were killing hundreds of people before seeing combat. Please look it up I beg you the story is hilarious
Proof that with good marketing, you can sell anything.
9:30 okay that's fucked.
Indeed, Peterscraps
@@chudthug Indeed, LP
Pet rocks were a success
Ok I'm going to sell bags of air for 100$ a piece, and market them as "clean air".
The fact that you started this story with “used car salesman” explains literally everything.
@@worldsworstanimations3492 Didn't need any comments. Explains everything.
..what a disappointing thread
Yup. Con man. My economics teacher in highschool told me to watch out for dudes like this. Swindle you in and you wonder why your credit is shit after a couple of months.
Just shorten to "salesman"
@@kuro9410_ilust at least make it snake oil salesman if you need to make it specific.
Moral of the story: if you wander around aimlessly for long enough, you'll eventually find what you're looking for.
U2 did.
@@firewalker1372 Nope, they *still haven't found what they're looking for*
@@FriedrichHerschel **stiiiiiiiiiil haven't fouuuuuuuuuund what they're looking for*
Or you'll walk off a cliff and die in a heap.
Especially if what your looking for is a land mine in the Middle East
“Free floating neutral electrons”
He really knew who he was marketing to
They were gonna harness those "free floating neutral electrons" to make a WMD beyond all comprehension.
@@ihave_noidea WEAPONIZED CHERENKOV RADIATION?
Here in germany people are selling a "EMF deleting device" that you plug into a socket and has onlx a LED light in it for 350 euros. And thousands of people are still buying it. Production value 2 euros.
They advertise it by "creating a shield around the user" and even helps with all kinds of diseases and heals tinnitus lmao
Qixr should make a video about that
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti Production value for a device like that is probably closer to
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti they have something like that in hte USA too. its a flash drive u plug into ur computer to generate a 5G shield. cant make this stuff up
When I lived in Mexico as a child, the military would walk through our streets with these devices that they claimed were “gun detectors,” and would break into houses to take our guns and any other possessions away, saying that the detector found guns in our house and that warranted entrance into our homes.
Yeah no the government is near completely corrupt in Mexico
Wonderful profile pic hehehe
This is why it worked so well. Those that knew it was bullshit didn't care, it presented the perfect opportunity to perform unjust search and seizure.
Take our guns😂 its so weird to me how police and military at the individual soldier or officer level can be filled with more corrupt people than expected when most people are half decent following the pareto distrubution
That's what the device was really for... countries with a poor civilian population and an authoritarian government who wanted the thin illusion of probable cause- whether it was to look for and confiscate guns, *or* ignore an illegal operation such as drug/human smuggling that needed the illusion of being on the level, it filled each role perfectly. *That* was this evil little bas*ard's true role; to facilitate state sponsored corruption.
"It does exactly what it's designed to - it makes money." - James McCormick, according to a whistleblower.
James McCormick like in the " McCormick spices/N'_seasoning?
@@richardbooth1304 James McCormick of McCormick and Schmidts.
It also gives the holder of the device an excuse to profile people on race or instinct.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 silliest comment of the morning
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 🙄
The biggest tragedy is, after all that, Wade Quattlebaum never even found his lucky golfball
I don't think that was the reason he started mass producing it. 🤑🤑🤑
@@ricky-sanchez In the mind of Mr Quattlebaum *every* golf ball is lucky, and and every golf ball is his
Also, what a name! "Wade Quattlebaum" sounds like a short-tenured, ill-fated, professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.
@@seanglaze7284
🤔 Either that or a character on “Duck Tales”?…
Where did anyone say anything at all about it being lucky? He wanted a method to find golf _balls_ plural - As in: Other people's.
...Talk about hearing what you want to hear.
I live in Iraq , I remember that this device was used in most checkpoints …. Many people were telling this is a useless fake bomb detector but the government and army were still using it 🙂
@@AO00720 oh no
Yay corruption!
@LTNetjak they are a bunch of gulliable old men
Probably the same reason why your goverment is stil so relugious
They are just stupid
@@handsomejack7901 I don't know man. if the US fall for it. surely other country would fall for it. religion is not really the reason here. Well unless you believe in scientology which is a whole different thing
I once worked as a security officer in Syria . When I started working they handed me this device to check cars for explosives. Being an electrical engineer I questioned the theory of operation and I realized right away that this is a scam.
I confronted the director of security and he told me "just tilt it if you suspect any car or you feel like searching any and this is to give the illusion that we can detect bombs"...I was dumbfounded because here in Syria it is still used by the army in every check point.
so its more used to fake probably cause, or make it seem like they are justified in their actions. Atleast they are just being scummy, and dont actually believe in it I guess?
@@humannotanalien8675 yeah at least they're just rats
Assad government being corrupt and evil.. not surprising lol
@@humannotanalien8675 I'm pretty sure that's worse...
See? When used correctly, it works. Just don't let the secret that it doesn't really work out. It's like you're a -magician- illusionist preforming tricks on the minds of miscreants. 😉
I'm in a Middle East history class, and we were just talking about Iraq, and these detectors came up. The note for this in my notebook is literally "those bomb detectors that Qxir talked about".
I’m from Thailand and the GT200 is so infamous that when the scandal emerged, me and my classmates made ourselves some replicas from cardboard and play pretend with them around the school lmao. Fun times.
Sauce pfp?
@@euclodies1719 Helck
@@euclodies1719 🤨📸
I am Thailand and I never knew you
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti probably there are 70 million people in thailand
I remember hearing that when buying one of these you had to sign a contract that said you weren't allowed to open them or else you would have to pay a multi million dollar fine. Supposedly, in opening them, they would send a signal that would be picked up immediately by satellites and notify the manufacturer.
That lasted a good while until some army grunt tripped, dropped the thing and it broke open
@@dannylamb456 reminds me of the Spongebob episode where the pirate treasure map opened by itself and then they discovered that the whole thing was a sham. Actually, fairly similar.
@@shreknskrubgaming7248 -episode probably inspired by this international scam?
@@MadWatcher If that's your logic, I really would recommend you don't buy IDA Pro.
Hahahahaha
It's Qxir's craziest story yet, and he still doesn't use a click bait title to share it. Bravo, ol' chap
This is what I love about his videos so much, no clickbait. Also the videos are amazing
The actual story is way crazier than any clickbait
I see this as a prime example of getting way over in your head. Just sell these things for golf balls, maybe baseballs, carkeys if you're really ambitous and nothing else. Stuff a few blinking lights into the things and make a customer loyalty program, slap on a disclaimer that says it's "fragile, may need to be recalibrated" a free warranty that lasts for 2 months which is voided if you tamper with the product. Whenever there's a advancement in computer technology, slap on another half month to the warranty.
Actually noted
Maybe, for things you could have an idea where it is, this might actually be useful. Is like a way to channel and visualize your own intuition.
It's a shame you don't have a million plus subscribers cause you're a great narrator and show awesome humor, you deserve more
He does now 🎉
I think you might be missing a critical angle here. The reason a lot of otherwise intelligent cops might go along with it is because they realize they can use the device to give them “reasonable suspicion” under any circumstances assuming they could manipulate the device to make it behave how they wanted
That's a really good point actually
I would go a step further and say that they wouldn't need to, assuming no one being subjected to being searched with this thing knows how it works
He sorta addressed this at 9:00 - But yeah, it's a point that could've been expanded on. Maybe some were "in" on it.
It's funny how psychology works if you do things in a convincing enough way.
Idk, we are talking about two vastly, vastly different interpretations here. Very much paints cops as evil geniuses. Im on the side of human stupidity over brilliant conspiracy theory every time. Maybe a few people knew they were junk and abused them, but someone tried to find a dead child with one. The vast majority just didnt know any better
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 You don't have to be an evil genius to be a dirty liar. They knew it was essentially just a dowsing rod for drugs. They could just say it pointed at someone and that would give them reasonable suspicion, legally. And yeah, I'm sure whoever sold it to the police agencies told them exactly how the thing works, probably down at the Masonic lodge. Conspiracies do happen. There's plenty of reason to assume it's a conspiracy. It's so obviously corrupt that it is a conspiracy, in fact. No doubt about it, this time.
I was an explosive detection dog handler in Iraq and came across a few of these being used by the Iraqi military and police. They were incredibly proud of them and eager to show them off. I got a good look at the first one I saw and immediately realized there was no way it could possibly work. At the time I had no idea it was a modified golf ball detector. I tried to tell them it couldn't work but they wouldn't believe me.
I also didn't realize until watching this video that even as a golf ball detector it was a fraud.
Because you can't fix stupid.
Because you can't fix stupid.
Thank you for your service and story
@@ThePlazmapower The dog was the one that did all the work, the dog should get all of the credit not him lol
How does it feel knowing you were more than willing to let a dog die in a war? How does it feel knowing you aided in helping out the people who left 4,000 dogs to die in veitnam? That dog had no idea of the dangers he was in, but you were, and you were happy to put him in those dangers of your own volition, that's absolutely disgusting. Thank the dog for his service and I hope you aren't anywhere near them. American soldiers have been pathetic and fighting nothing any time after ww2. The only soldiers after that who aren't absolute wastes of human life were the ones who aided the koreans.
3:34 **neutral** electrons? Holy shit, someone call CERN and Fermilab, Quadrotracker have discovered a new particle outside the standard model!
Lmaooooo
@「 Deadpoppin 」 sub atomic particles *
@「 Deadpoppin 」 just felt like being annoying
Proof that midwits will be fooled by anything
These were still in use in Lebanon up until 2017 as far as I know. Pretty much every mall used to have a couple of guards with this thing at parking entrances, idk if they still do. The Nepali army and police also procured a few during the civil war, but I've never seen one in use. The District Inspector General of Kathmandu showed me one after the war, stating that they'd found random stops to be more accurate that this thing.
That very last clip... "By a live minefield"
Sent an actual shiver down my spine, that's indescribably evil.
No matter how low my expectations are, humanity always managed to swoop right under it...
Every time you think you're scraping the bottom of the barrel, you'll realize it's a false bottom.
Have no expectations and you'll never be disappointed.
Humanity is managing to swoop lower and lower. Yet it seems less people are amazed.
that "legal team" is just that dogey uncle in the ra everyone has
He’s for the cause.
"Should have been sentenced to clear a minefield with one of these dodgy detectors"
GIVE THIS MAN A GAVEL!!!
So Germans during post war
What I love about these kinds of devices is that they somehow seem to manage to improve statistics although it only works by the user’s intuition. Although it is so effective people only want to trust their intuition if a expensive device validates them.
It's not just a matter of validation and trust-
This device allows the police grounds for "reasonable suspicion" to search a bag they otherwise wouldn't have been allowed to search
It gives them more legal leeway to act on their intuition
And it gives more leeway for police harassment and misconduct, double edged sword and all that...
3:26 As a physics major, this explanation genuinely made me upset. The terms "Static Energy" and "Neutral Electrons" have left me in a perpetual rage.
You should do a UA-cam rant on it.
The inventor literally described Hamon Breathing from JoJo in a way that makes LESS sense than the anime XD
I'm a comp sci guy, I get the same thing with AI. It makes me so angry. THATS NOT AI! ITS A FUCKING SEARCH ENGINE!
😂
turns out it isn't fraud if you write "this whole thing is a sick joke lmao thanks for the money idiot" on the box
i am curious as to how the device saw effective use in schools and in police work when it literally had no means of functioning
is it safe to assume the boost in numbers was brought on by enabling the user to search persons who normally would need to be more suspicious before the search&seizure would be allowed?
that's what i'm thinking. The device was purely a reason to do a thorough manual check. The operator would probably "detect contraband" on people that they personally found suspicious. This is also why i think far more people knew it was bullshit than not but they also knew the device gave them power to circumvent privacy laws so they went with they flow.
2:02....Yes this thing works it located lost golf balls but it didn't locate my golf game.....lol
You can write "this works with the will of mind" and save yourself from court.
Reminds me of the very good study done using certified police drug dogs in California. Only 3 of the dogs passed the test out of 128 or so. The test proved the dogs were better at wanting to please the handler by reading his unconscious movements if the "handler" thought there were drugs present. In the entire exercise, no drugs were actually in the rooms but the doors of half of the so called planted rooms had a red piece of paper on the door. The handlers were told this. All the dogs but 3 indicated drugs in the marked rooms.
It worked in schools because.. well there American schools..
Thanks Qxir, very cool! Thanks for 4 years of great content.
Hmmmm I wonder if the link above is a rickroll
@@saulgoodmangaming1 its not
The fact that a glorified novelty toy was being used to solve crimes is not comforting to say the least
I mean, that's basically what a polygraph is
It's a dowsing rod. Just say it pointed to the guy and you now have a legal justification for the illegal profiling you just did.
@「 Deadpoppin 」 Well.. yeah actually. Polygraph is basically a heartbeat seismagraph. That's it. It's more an intimidation and physiological technique used to put the person in a state where they are nervous of their lies. In reality, it has nothing to do with the truth or lies, it's about reading a person. Increased heart rate isn't an accurate lie detector.
@「 Deadpoppin 」 Of course silly me, your right. Such a well thought out reply, I can tell you put effort into it and did your research. How could I have been so wrong? -_-
@「 Deadpoppin 」 ok
The more this guy explains how the device was supposed to work, the more I'm stumped on how the hell people fell for this.
Yeah as soon as it went to electrons from static power the.. definitely not the insides because there isn't any I thought the quackery is strong here.
@@randykitchleburger2780Haha! In the early Dr Who series 60 years ago the Daleks were powered by static electricity.
quadro tracker probably worked well for the school because it was essentially a way of letting teachers pretend they weren't being biased when searching the students they already knew were a problem
I know a few tales that start off with a used cars salesmen.
Bill Paxton?
I knew that this was gonna be a good one as soon as I heard “South Carolina”
I knew it was going to be good when i heard a used car salesman from south carolina
Huge banger.
One time I got into a fight with an alligator in South Carolina. That place is nuts.
@@keegandecker4080 I live in north Carolina and it's quiet going to the other one is so different
I live in south Carolina and I just don't go outside.
Given to a Warhammer 40k Ork, this would be the greatest portable hanheld scanning and recon device
they would rename it from the ADE to the DDD
Dakka Dakka Dakka
If you know, you know
@@mid.nightrunners8157 That's the beauty of it, you don't need to know, you just have to believe.
@@wooster_sauce nonono, it'd be the Dakka Detektin Deviec.
@@airplanemaniacgaming7877
Ork TSA: It is literally there to detect if everyone has Dakka
If they do not, they are rightfully krumped
The intro of this was glorious! Half a mil is still too underated for this channel. Satire + history + simplicity = perfect
The worst thing about fraud cases is that the fraudsters never seem to have to pay their money back to the victims 😕
I have a weird feeling that they purposefully knew this and used it to just frisk random passersbys with a good excuse.
If he thinks the US and Iraqi govs are scary, wait until nvidia hears about the trademark violation of "Quadro"
You!
You think iraq is *scary* ?
After watching this- suddenly flat earthers aren't the most gullible people on earth.
The most gullible are voters and virus believers....
@@Triggernlfrl yes, that's right: make everything about you, you genius!
@@Triggernlfrl I know you are baiting for reactions so I won’t respond the way you’d like
@@Triggernlfrl everything in the world is either a potato or not a potato
@@Triggernlfrl no I'd say the most gullible people are people like your self people who refuse to believe scientific data and believe that it's some world wide plot for governments to control people and call people sheep
Man this is the best channel I've ever subscribed to, the comedy and all is in its on category! 😂 😂 😂 😂
I have spent my career debunking medical treatments that are as worthless as this. Congratulations on another excellent video.
im shocked nobody ever took one of these things with a person who believes their use and tell them "in a 1 mile radius is 3 brief cases, one has a bomb the others are empty, go find it" have them track it and be sure they found the real deal and reveal to them that none of the cases had a bomb or anything bomb-like period and tell them if that thing was even remotely functional it would have known they were being tricked
I bet the excuses would be never ending; it had traces of bomb or shared some materials with a bomb or was the same color as the photo of the bomb. People dumb enough to believe it in the first place would just double down on belief.
@@randomusermaximuss that is undoubtable true......though with that proof in hand, it wouldn't take much to convince the powers that be that they might be or are being swindled....and since the Iranian government is amongst those, I imagine some beheadings would follow
Or, one could, you know, take one of them apart and show the muppet who thinks they work, that these are just a bit of plastic.
Back when this was a scandal in Thailand, there was an attempt to actually test how effective this is.
The results was, as you expect, no better than picking at random.
A professor at some university almost X-ray them to see what's inside too, but an army whistleblower came out saying he dropped it and it broke and there's nothing inside.
@@mace8873 no dice, they will just accuse you of carving out it's insides.
What you really need to do is give them a time limit and once they fail, tell them you never hid a case in the first place.
Oh i have a conspiracy theory, everyone knew the device was BS but they wanted an excuse to search whatever vehicle they wanted.
Plus the bribe money. Vaxes work the same way
@@LTPottenger Except vaccines work unlike the load of 18th century rubbish this guy was selling
I'd wager it wasn't even a conspiracy and the charges of fraud were to shut the original seller up lest he accidentally let it slip and cause embarrassment.
Less embarrassing for the government spooks if they can say they "found out" about a scam.
SCAMMER: I invented a detection device that points at whatever you want it to. DICTATORS: I'll take a million of them.
You know, this isn't as bad as deal as the scammer thinks
They aren't even dictators they are corrupt and useless bureaucrats lmaooo
Growing up in Mexico I heard about this kind of thing from friends whose parents drove to the US.
They said that the military had super advanced tools at the border that could detect firearms or drugs inside a car 10 meters away in seconds.
A good deterrent for anyone gullible enough (?)
I remember the GT200 in Thailand when I lived there. They appeared when the bombing started in the south. People were desperate and believed anything. They always looked like BS to me with them swinging all over the place. It was quite the scandal when the fraud was revealed.
I remember reading all about this. Imagine thinking a stick like that actually does anything.
Apparently it was just for intimidation.
OI DAMNITS! never thought I'd run into you
Reminds me of seeing dummies at military checkpoints... just a man sized doll with some shades on.
Dude thats actually really smart. Send the "inventors" into active landmine zones with their devices and tell them if they make it across in one piece they're free. Watch them put on their own cuffs and walk into the police van
First: I was turning 'round and 'round on UA-cam, hoping to be saved from my pathetic loneliness, and there pops the last Qxir video. Me felt blessed.
Second: My favorite Irish proceeds to describe the ride he crafts with so much talent, and i have to say, you know your sh*t bro': Rapid loss of hope in humanity is probably my favorite hobby. ;D
Joke aside, man you're good at what your doing!
@Not RickRoll👇 God fucking damn it
@@cowboydoggo6168 shit dude what did you expect lol
Love how some people bought the scam, realised it’s a scam, loved it, copied it, inspired others.
They didn’t even bother to put fake wires inside of it.
"Your loss in faith in humanity will be monumental" kinda hard to lose something you don't have
Oh, I don't know.
I thought I was numb but even I'm slightly surprised.
@@effdiffeyeno171 numb is more akin to desensitized but in my case I haven't had any form of faith in humanity since I was 16
When 2020 started my faith dropped faster than crypto currency
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This is honestly one of the greatest videos I think you've ever made. You're an absolute legend for posting these every week dude!
not gonna lie its nice seeing you getting progressively better at drawing
Your videos kill me - brilliant coverage of obscure stories but also some extremely funny commentary
Much like Randonautica, you’re guaranteed to find more gold than the person who didn’t look. I honestly don’t blame these people; don’t forget Ouija Boards have movies based on them.
That's definitely a great point!
Ok?
Ouija bords actually work though those fucking things should be burned and destroyed.
By far the best one! Your comics are insane mate! had me giggleing and the whole way through. Well dun on that one!
I've only recently subbed, and I'm fascinated with every single story you cover. Your animatics add a real charm to the more lighthearted historical videos.
Seriously man your videos saved me from depression
I would actually like to hear about the marketing of it. Also, such a stable channel is very rare nowadays
They actually drove around with one of these conmen, with the intent of seeing if it could detect the vehicle with explosives in it. The kicker? The vehicle they were in was the one with explosives, and the tracker never detected it.
This story was a big news back when I was in high school because, well, my home country is among several countries Qxir has mentioned besides Iraq. The worse thing is that high-ranked political and military figures responsible for purchasing those pieces of shite are still yet to be prosecuted and still around in the government, while a lot of innocent people were wrongfully convicted. A top forensic expert has lost the credibility for defending that product.
One thing I recall is that there was a press conference where they held a test for this so-call detector, and it ended up nowhere better than a good old random guessing.
Love the "clear the minefield" with their own piece of shit device punishment ! Lmao....great illos in this one , man ! Like you say , how can people be so gullible and credulous ?! Essentially the thing was a telescoping antenna , as seen on old radios and walkie-talkies , attached to a swivel in an empty plastic handle ! Lmao. I like the souped up deluxe presentation kit in the briefcase to make it look fancy ! Keep up the great work , pal !
We had an issue like this in Lebanon few years back too! It was used by many mall security companies until news reports showcasing how it does not work emerged.
The golf ball detector, while a fraud, was at least meant to be harmless.
It's such a shame that what was more or less a practical joke was turned into a full-on scam. And then when someone tried to step in to stop the abuse, it only got far, far, worse....
I'm always excited to hear a story that begins with balls
Oh do I have a story for you then!
I have even more stories like that
I guess, if you think about it... everyone's story starts with/from balls...
lol
@@ryanjones7681 Yeah.
Found this channel on Friday via either Fascinating Horror or Plainly Difficult. Watched a couple Last Moments, then found the dead jockey video. It's Sunday evening and I've just cleared all of the Tales from the Bottle... Great work man, subscribed!
Ahhhhhh, the double standard. Husband gets prison sentence. Wife gets community service.
EQUALITY BABY!!!
Waiting for the hordes of feminists demanding equality in sentencing. Any day now I'm sure...
Gender "equality" at its finest.
I'm sure you know better than the judge
@@areyousureaboutthat5500 Go ahead, take a look at the statistics in sentencing for yourself.
Let's be real the police love this thing, not because it actually works but because it looks official and gives them probable cause to search randomly.
Gotta love America. In America the manufacturer has to give up the source code to the defendant so we are able to verify the detectors as being real or fake.
I'm surprised the police haven't already announced they're using it as a general drug detector. Much easier than training a dog to "indicate" on command.
Your videos just keep getting better and better! LOVE your work @Qxir!!
Thanks for the great content!
What about "first"!?
@@nomesobrenome8505 Maybe they don’t want to say something pointless and vapid.
@@clonesharpshooter101 Sheesh, no chill.
@@nomesobrenome8505 Nothing personal! You aren’t part of the problem… for now.
@@clonesharpshooter101 *gulp*
The governments/law enforcement that used these knew they didn’t work. If you need to search someone and don’t have probable cause, it’s as easy as tilting your wrist and saying “My detection device says you have something illegal, get out of the car and turn out your pockets”
Fun Story: A similar thing happened to Marine First Recon in the invasion of Iraq. They thought they saw a column of tanks moving across the desert at night with headlights on. It was actually a town much further away that wasn't moving at all. But because it was dark and there was no frame of reference, Autokinesis, the unconscious micromovements of your own eyes, made them perceive movement where there was none.
Some of the Marines knew about Autokinesis, but the ones who didn't passed the info up to command and before anyone could realize the mistake planes were already in the air and dropping bombs. Subsequent aircraft reported readings on thermal and bombed those, but it was likely just hot debris from previously dropped bombs. Millions of dollars were wasted bombing an empty desert.
Read Generation Kill, it's a good goddamn book.
Watch the show too!
Did they kill the towns people?
@@MISTAKEWASMADE4live because they mistook the town lights for the headlights of tanks they misidentified the range to target , estimating a town 14 kilometers away as being tanks something like 3 kilometers away. The bombs fell very short of the town.
That's how range estimation works when you can't use any range finders, you take a known quantity, like the distance between the headlights on a T-72, and you use that to estimate how far away it is.
But obviously the distance between two house lights is way farther so your ranging will be way off.
I find this hard to believe when military aircraft use IR cameras that clearly show buildings and vehicles. Watch any video of paveway airstrikes
Also a really good TV show as well.
You kindness at the end of this video is what finally made me sub. Keep up the great content!
The super interesting stories and the Irish accent really got me hooked on this channel. Keep up the good work mate!
1:02 I come here for the animations, and am never dissapointed. lol Great portrayal of ideas through the simplest toons. Love it lol
Wow I've never been this early I feel special
I do too
Right?!?
We are privileged
The last time I came this early you were born
Same
I’ve never been so happy hearing another Irishman’s voice
No Irishman has ever been happy, you filthy liar 😂
@@unbearifiedbear1885 with a beer in one hand and a joint in the other anyone can be happy
You are now my favorite UA-camr
"A former used car salesman" Every good scam starts the same way
To make a Friday even better Qxir coming in clutch
Qxir, I actually had one of these devices and let me tell you, they actually work! It helped me find my wife’s wedding ring. Turns out it was on the nightstand in her boyfriend’s flat!
As always, the animation in Qxir videos is very good at portraying the feeling and emotion in these stories.
Your channel is underrated man you are awesome
I'm scratching my head...??? Wtf
Keep educating us mate - Love the Channel
This is the best channel of the "telling stories about history" type
Fuck yeah dude
The video was amazing cant get enought of these kind of videos x3 And after the Polaroyd Version I hope they updates it to SD cards these days XD
I bet Wade felt like Oppenheimer after those car bombings in Baghdad happened. He was just a snake oiler, not a corrupt international salesman.
I do not believe Oppenheimer did what he did just to get rich fast.
@@FriedrichHerschel Well no, but both of them didn’t know how severe the repercussions of their actions would be.
From a corrupt Law Enforcement standpoint, this is amazing. Probable Cause? Fuck it, the weeble-wobble says I gotta check you out.
0:15 Qxirs’ too good at drawing facial impressions
Hey mate, The Somerton man has had a huge update, Australian government dug him up after 46 years
That is freaking awesome!
We had xrays of that device showing there was no internal circuitry that we passed over to the Iraqi military, and they still didn't believe it didn't work.
Thank you 🙏 for your service
"If the everyday operations of your job require you to have have a toolkit which includes lethal weapons, and you add a magic fucking wand to that toolkit, someone should look into having your access revoked." -Qxir, 2021
Antennas don't even work that way, they would point perpendicular to the signal not directly at it.
This is my absolute favorite so far! Hilarious! Love the art as always but spot on start to finish.😂
The fact that this hurt your opinion of humanity calls to mind George Carlin's "Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
This story starts with a dowsing rod for golf balls. Excelent.
Perp 1: Oh shit ! We have 5 kilos and they have a roadblock ahead !!!!
Perp 2: Don't sweat it , man . They're using the Quadro Detector .
Perp 1: In that case bust me out a line while we wait our turn !
Anyone who's worked with the public has already lost faith in humanity
It's hard to even conceive a worse non-violent crime than selling bomb detectors that do not detect bombs to people who live in countries full of bombs.