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| Fla. fisherman hooks live missile in Gulf waters |
| 2009-06-09 |
| Florida authorities say a commercial fisherman reeled in a live missile in the Gulf of Mexico and kept it on his boat for 10 days. The sheriff's office in Pinellas County say the boat's captain, Rodney Soloman, hooked the air-to-air guided missile 50 miles off the Panhandle town of Panama City. The Air Force and Navy use Gulf waters off the Panhandle for weapons training. Soloman had the missile aboard his boat for 10 days before returning Monday to port in Madeira Beach, near St. Petersburg. A bomb squad was called in from MacDill Air Force Base and dismantled the missile in an empty parking lot. The bomb squad said the missile was very corroded from floating in saltwater for a long time. They said it was live and in a very unstable state. |
| Posted by:Everday a Wildcat(KSU) |
| #14 Dang, now that is going to be a tough fish story to try to top. |
| Posted by: Goober Gruting8495 2009-06-09 20:39 |
| #13 did anyone see this fisherman. His meth head side kick dropped the "VERY UNSTABLE" missile, and i have a feeling that they where moe worried about the drugs they had on board as a reason not too call the coast guard |
| Posted by: funky skunk 2009-06-09 18:35 |
| #12 One would hope hilarity ensues, #11. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-06-09 17:01 |
| #11 Offtopic but kinda fitting in a wierd way: "17:23 Report: Gaza militants accidentally fire two rockets into Egypt (Israel Radio)" Haaretz Flash. |
| Posted by: O 2009-06-09 16:58 |
| #10 Ah. Clever -- thanks! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-06-09 15:59 |
| #9 That's it Redneck Jim. |
| Posted by: Phineth the Anonymous8743 2009-06-09 15:26 |
| #8 I don't know that joke. Tell us, please, Phineth the Anonymous8743 it's simply a picture of a black bear carrying a M16. Caption, "The right to arm bears". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-06-09 14:46 |
| #7 Makes you wonder how many fishing boats that disappeared at sea actually caught an exploding "fish." |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-06-09 14:38 |
| #6 In Saudi they don't have the right to Bare Arms. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-06-09 14:33 |
| #5 The aquatic version of the old right to bear arms when the bears are armed joke? I don't know that joke. Tell us, please, Phineth the Anonymous8743. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-06-09 13:56 |
| #4 I wonder why they called McDill when Eglin is closer as is Pensecola. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-06-09 13:24 |
| #3 Maybe he was thinking about using it for some sort of dynamite fishing or something.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-06-09 13:23 |
| #2 I'm thinkin' that if he'd radioed the Coast Guard and told them what he had, he wouldn't of had to haul it around for 10 days. Of course, maybe he didn't want any attention from the CG for other reasons, like not being ship-shape, mebbe? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2009-06-09 13:15 |
| #1 The aquatic version of the old right to bear arms when the bears are armed joke? |
| Posted by: Phineth the Anonymous8743 2009-06-09 11:13 |