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Imaging going to work after reading this and listening to The Bat Bombs of WWII and you're so inspired to go into work and propose a solution to a problem you've been thinking about for a long time. Maybe instead of using IM or email to enhance workplace communications, you want to use carrier pigeons to deliver messages. What could possibly go wrong? Perhaps instead of using computers that plug into the wall, you use fancy machines that run off gasoline instead and each desk has its own gas-powered generator chugging away while you work? Better yet, maybe to improve morale in the office you put up signs that say, "The Beatings Will Continue, Till Morale Improves!" Doesn't that seem fair or equitable? Instead of Casual Friday's it's Freaky Bikini Friday. Pretty sure HR would love to see the fallout from that.

These are all ludicrous ideas that would never be entertained by sane leaders in the present day. But when the circumstances are just right, the mindset changes to, "it's so crazy, it might just work!" 

This is where we get a dentist in Pennsylvania who thought it would be good idea to strap little incendiary bombs on bats and fly them over Japan in World War II to burn country down instead of traditional bombs dropped from planes. In a peacetime setting, the tactic is outrageously bat-crap crazy… but in the midst of a world war that wasn’t necessarily going America’s way early on, it’s an idea that is “crazy enough it might just work”
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