Associated Press - February 25, 2008 3:24 PM ET
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - San Jose police have a new crime fighting tool.
You might want to hear about it, but you won't want to hear it being used.
They'll be using a dish-shaped, sonic weapon called a Long Range Acoustic Device -- or L-RAD.
Police say it will be used mostly as a high-grade sound system to amplify a police officer's order at great distances.
But it can also be used as another of the department's "less-lethal" weapons.
The ear-splitting device is growing in popularity around the globe and has been used by soldiers to flush suspected terrorists out of caves in Afghanistan.
Noise Weapons
The word noise ultimately derives from nausa, the Greek for boat and is related to nausea, literally "the sickness you get on boats".
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