Associated Press - February 25, 2008 3:24 PM ET <br /><br />SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - San Jose police have a new crime fighting tool. <br /><br />You might want to hear about it, but you won't want to hear it being used. <br /><br />They'll be using a dish-shaped, sonic weapon called a Long Range Acoustic Device -- or L-RAD. <br /><br />Police say it will be used mostly as a high-grade sound system to amplify a police officer's order at great distances. <br /><br />But it can also be used as another of the department's "less-lethal" weapons. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />Noise Weapons <br /><br />The word noise ultimately derives from nausa, the Greek for boat and is related to nausea, literally "the sickness you get on boats". <br /><br /><a class="link" rel="nofollow" href="http://nevernwo.blogspot.com/">http://nevernwo.blogspot.com/</a>
