"WE have our own protection. Screw the rest of America."
Posted on 07/20/2007 9:20:06 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
(CBS) JERSEY CITY A Jersey City woman made a shocking discovery on her lawn this morning when she noticed a military rocket launcher lying in the grass.
Niranjana Besai was leaving her house at 88 Nelson Street, to go to work at just after 8 a.m. when she saw the launcher on her front lawn. She immediately called police.
Besai's neighbor, Joe Quinn saw her pointing at the equipment from her front porch. When he walked over to the six-foot-long weapon, he was just as shocked. “It looked like a bazooka,” he told CBS 2 News.
Quinn tells CBS 2 HD he originally thought the launcher was just a pipe, but after noticing it had a picture of a soldier on it, he realized it looked similar to a missile launcher he'd seen on television.
Jersey City Police removed the launcher, and the incident is now being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force and The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Jersey City Police could not confirm whether it was actually operable.
But, sources tell CBS 2’s Scott Weinberger that it’s the kind of missile that can take down an aircraft and the area where the launcher was discovered is in or very near a flight path for Newark Liberty International Airport.
Stay with wcbstv.com and CBS 2 HD for more on this developing story.
Completely horrifying...we live in a very bad time!
BTTT!
Shermy found us that LA story yesterday where a missile was fired at jet (?).
Perhaps a message to the resident or neighborhood?
Aren’t these things banned in Jersey City?
Perhaps her husband, inadvertantly dropped it on the way to the airport?
Maybe somebody was getting ready for a hit when a car came along. It will be interesting to hear the follow up on this story.
That is more likely an Indian name than an Arab one. Not too many of those folks firing on us lately.
fyi ping.
My bet is it is inert.
Was this recent or from a couple years ago. I remember reading about something similar in L.A.
See? Television saves the day yet again! Where would we be without television, aside from well-read?
"WE have our own protection. Screw the rest of America."
And I thought pink flamingos were tacky.
Maybe. Maybe just an expended L.A.W. tube someone picked up at the flea market. I wouldn't trust the media to tell a shoulder fired SAM from a drive shaft from a '68 Fairlane.
Isn’t the flight path a “Rocket Launcher Free Zone”?
Bruce Cockburn finally got his rocket launcher?
Are you talking about the incident that happened some time ago? I remember that story....or is this yet another incident?
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