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Posted on 05/18/2004 4:47:01 PM PDT by swilhelm73
ATLANTA -- A military rocket launcher was found Tuesday near a rail-transit station just outside Atlanta.
The shoulder-held launcher was found by the Hamilton E. Holmes MARTA station west of Atlanta by transit employees around 2 p.m., said Gene Wilson, MARTA police chief.
The rocket launcher had been used and it was not loaded, he said.
"It kind of looks like mini bazooka,"' he said. "We're trying to figure out when it was used and how it was used.'"
The launcher, which was about three feet tall and six inches wide, was found on an embankment next to a railroad track parallel to the city's east-west rail-transit line, which was not interrupted by the discovery.
"It didn't have a projectile in it. There was no immediate danger to the public so we did not stop service,'' he said.
There was no immediate indication of how it got there. The FBI and police were searching the area to make sure there were no similar devices
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
I worry about the Republican National Convention. (Both the Islamic terrorists, and the domestic leftist terrorists.)
A warning...?
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You used to be able to buy them by the gross. Not sure about now.
You don't suppose it could have been launched and failed without anyone noticing it do you?
I hate when that happens.
Sorry.
Telling; that the Demrats have little to worry about in the way of 'security'.
I was an Army brat; we played with them all the time. LAWs, Dragons, and one Dad got a TOW for us!
"I worry about the Republican National Convention. (Both the Islamic terrorists, and the domestic leftist terrorists.)"
You don't suppose that it's possible for these two groups to get into a turf war vieing for "first dibs" and killing each other off, do you?
(OK, It was just a thought ;'}
I was young enough that my dad was out of the Air Force by the time I was old enough to know about it. Still, by the age of 6 or 7, I (and other siblings) had a bayonet collection that was pretty neat.
I’ve still got a German bayonet that’s probably 18” long. We used to tape the blade with masking tape so we wouldn’t inadvertently cut each other (though we used them to dig in the dirt so the probability of cutting someone was probably nil) and have sword-fights with them.
I think it’s probably not a good time to be a kid nowadays. Probably throw you in jail or put you on Zoloft or something for fighting with a bayonet.
To clarify, the RATS are also quite a target. I just don't worry about them. I believe they are shutting down a major freeway because it is within feet of the Fleet Center.
I wqorry more about domestic terrorists disrupting the Republican National Convention. Why are these people rooting for Islamofascist terrorits?
IMO a test......(like the luggage)
Okay. .. but they have only half the worry the Repubs do; as they have only half the enemy.
Yes, that was my first thought as well. Too weird.
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