City says loud explosions were Army training exercise

WNEM TV 5 Flint MI ^ | 6/2/15 | Andrew Keeler

[grumpygresh]

Explosions you'd expect in a war zone echoed through Flint. People's homes shook and those inside were caught off-guard. It all went down Tuesday at the shuttered Lowell Junior High on the city's east side.

[grumpygresh]

I think we're going to see a lot of these this summer.

[cripplecreek]

They do a lot of them in Michigan. I saw a dozen Apache helicopters heading north in formation a few days ago. I thought they were going to Flint but they ended up in Traverse city.

[familyop]

"...it blew up the whole sky or whatever..." Annette Humphrey said.


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See
     Hysteric.] (Med.)
     A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women,
     in which the emotional and reflex excitability is
     exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished,
     so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes
     the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into
     paroxism or fits.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of
           the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing,
           and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the
           throat. The affection presents the most varied
           symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest
           diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment
           alone. Hysteric

[lavaroise]

Our nation is not very belligerent against external threats, so these exercises’ purposes are going to become suspicious.

[DanielRedfoot]

Little Johnny has to get a permit, FDA approval these days to have a Lemonade Stand, Lets have a look at the Permits these a-holes applied for and were were issued for this ridiculous nonsense.

Ill be over here holding my breath...

[GeronL]

bump

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping

[grumpygresh]

Urban training.
Translation: when the EBT cards stop working.

[BipolarBob]

It's JadeHelm!!

/s

[gaijin]

Remember the old interjection,

“HEY..! It’s a free country..!!”

When was the last time you heard that, huh..?

Was it RECENT..?

[VerySadAmerican]

I sometimes hear “It’s still a free country for a little while.” And I hear “It used to be a free country.”

[Timber Rattler]

On Wednesday, military officials and Flint leaders held a media availability, but Lorenz later called TV5 and said the officials from the army didn't wanted their faces shown during our broadcast. The concern: terrorists may try to find them and harm them.

Uh, yeah. Sure.

[grumpygresh]

Well it could be true if the terrorists are domestic terrorists- conservatives, vets, gun owners, Bible based Christians, ie those clinging to their Bibles and guns.