Capping Hussein and Pop Punk – The Weird Side of the Internet

Capping Hussein and Pop Punk – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

Any famous musician has a basket full of stories that you would never possibly believe are true but they are. Blink-182 bass player Mark Hoppus has a doozy. Would you believe he helped the U.S. Army capture Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003? He certainly does. Apparently, before performing on the U.S.S. Nimitz, Hoppus caught the ear of a Navy Admiral on his way to a meetup with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He told him his plan of flying drones over Iraq and waiting for Hussein to put out another video. They would be able to triangulate his position.

Soon after, Hussein was caught in a crevice under Baghdad.

Now is it possible that they went with the “Blink-182 Plan”? I’m going to go ahead and say yes. Simply because Blink-182 can claim it, because there’s no way that the military is going to admit that it wasn’t their idea. C’mon, it was their biggest win in that whole year.

But music and the government have always intersected, as we saw with Elvis Presley in working for the DEA, and Elvis after he died working for the government tracking down cryptid.

But, to be more specific in this prognostication. Said to the Admiral; “Sir, what about having drones fly all over the region in carpeting patterns, broadcasting time codes above the level of human hearing but at the level that a video recording would catch it.”

He went on: “Then, the next time he releases one of his videos, you can listen to it, pull the ultrasonic data, and triangulate the drones you have flying all over.” Hoppus remembered the admiral was “genuinely taken aback” by his plan, saying he could pitch it to the Chiefs of Staff.

Hoppus wrote: “Four months later, Saddam was located and captured in Iraq. So, you’re welcome everyone.”

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