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Wierd and Scary News.

CrazyFrog1903

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Thought everyone should read about this. This happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Here is a part of an article.
Residents of a Tulsa apartment complex are extremely lucky to be unharmed this morning after a military munition crashed nearby after apparently falling off a passing jet.

It happened Thursday afternoon near 51st and Lewis. Police showed up after the power went out at the Canyon Creek Apartments. When they arrived, they found what appeared to be a bomb. They called out the bomb squad, who quickly identified it as a military ordnance.

The military later took over the scene and said it had indeed lost a 'dummy bomb' off one of its planes during a training exercise. The ordnance hit an electrical box on the side of one of the apartments when it came down, taking out the power to at least two of the apartment buildings.

But, Captain Rick Helberg says things could have been much, much worse.

"The electrical meters are mounted on the building, so two or three feet over and it would have actually entered apartments," said Helberg.
 

EAS_Intrepid

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Well, in Western Germany the USAF once lost an A-10 Thunderbolt II loaded with shelter-penetrating ammunition AND 1000 rounds of the Gatling board gun (which have been tipped with depleted uranium)...
 

CrazyFrog1903

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Apparently the pilot thought he dropped the bomb in an open field in Kansas. Tulsa is Oklahoma's second biggest city. To me it looks atleast a little different than an open field in another state. LOL
 
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Schattenkanzler

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Eas Do you know where it was?

Im living in Geilenkirchen near to the NATO Airbase (E3-A Component) and a few weeks ago they found a missle in a nearby forest......
 
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Creed

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i seem to remember a story in the news not that long ago claiming that a US navy ship had 'lost' a nuclear depth charge...

I think in the end it turned out to be one of the dummy nukes (they have a radioactive isotope in them so they show up as live and even the people aboard the ships don't know they're not until the go codes are issued...)
 
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La Patience

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We in England never get told that sort of thing even if it did happen but im pretty sure that stuff does happen here. still scary really all those weopons lying about.
 
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Creed

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a friend of mine was working for a council up in scotland when one of his collegues got a call from some local wharehousing... asking them if they intended to renew their lease....

Well they ahd no idea they had one, let alone what might be in one of the massive sheds out in teh countryside .. so they sent the guy along to find out...
The light didn't work as he got in (after cutting the lock off with some big ass bolt cutters), but there was alledgedly another switch at the far end and he had a very small torch so apaprently he went on through....

On the way he did notice the floor was kinda sticky but didn't think a lot of it...

not until he got to the other end and turned that light on... revealing the shed full of ww2 ammuntion that he was now standing in... (quite literally, the sticky stuff was leaked-sweated high-ex)

According to my friend the guy claimed to have gotten out of there as fast as a terminally scared man with a rapidly dilating sphincter and a fear of treading hard possibly could...

Who could blame him?
 
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