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[email protected] LoogyPicker@gmail.com is offline
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Default Guy catches missile...

On Jun 9, 9:21*pm, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:52:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:





On Jun 9, 5:59*pm, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
which was live and keeps it in his boat for ten days before having it
disarmed.


Yeah - that's what I'd do - nothing like carrying a live missile
around in your boat just for laughs. *:).


http://tinyurl.com/l62fqs


"The bomb squad said the missile was very corroded from floating in
sal****er for a long time. They said it was live and in a very
unstable state."


I didn't know those things could float?


I wonder who got chewed on for losing live gear?


But then again, I always thought that they did train with live
ordinance for weight, but they weren't armed. either way it's not a
good situation


Could have been a failed rocket engine too.- Hide quoted text -

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I didn't realize this until I started reading about it, but there was
a LOT of enemy activity near our beaches during WW2.