Reminds me of this lame-ass’s letter from yesterday’s Port Townsend Leader:
Letter: Navy gunshot noises frightening
Editor, Leader:
I’m surprised. We’ve made a big deal about having a security company shooting off guns in our environs, but we didn’t say a word about the Navy recently conducting menacingly loud gunshot noises in our beautiful bay. What’s the deal?
I’m a military brat, so military exercises are not new to me. The sounds of the Navy’s “pretend” weapons were brutal, frightening. Was all this assault on our environment really necessary? Hardly a tourist incentive to visit us. Hardly something we want our children exposed to.
First of all, play your little military games somewhere else. Secondly, if you have to do them on beautiful Port Townsend Bay, I have a suggestion: Remember when we were kids or when we read the comics and the pretend sounds we made? Bam-bam, rat-a-tat-tat-tat, ka-ching, ka-pow, bang-bang-bang. Please utilize all and any of these sounds via your VHF radios while playing your games, and leave the rest of us innocent, peace-loving gentle people out of it.
PENNY JENSEN
Port Townsend
(Editor’s Note: The U.S. Coast Guard conducted port security training exercises July 13-14 at Naval Magazine Indian Island. These included the firing of blank ammunition in 7.62mm and .50 caliber machine guns.)
Oh barf. Probably doesn't hesitate to stab someone in the back for stealing her girlfriend either.