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Avalanche Control Round Lands in Backyard
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Posted on 03/24/2005 2:15:16 PM PST by Lokibob
Avalanche Control Round Lands in Backyard UDOT admitting today that a howitzer shell that exploded in the backyard of a Pleasant Grove home was from one of their avalanche control cannons. |
(KSL News) -- A 105 howitzer round that exploded in a Pleasant Grove backyard came from an avalanche cannon in Provo Canyon. UDOT Deputy Director Carlos Braceras says they shot eight shells Wednesday afternoon in the canyon, but the last one appears to have been over packed with gunpowder.
UDOT says they'll take full responsibility and compensate the homeowners for all damage caused. They're also suspending indefinitely all avalanche control cannon shots in Provo Canyon while they find ways to make sure this never happens again. That could mean the canyon will be closed more often because of avalanche danger.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: artillery; avalanche; badday; banglist; blammo; bloweduprealgood; duh; incompetent; oops; utah
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To: Arrowhead1952
A similar thing happened on Cape Cod. A round or three landed on Route 6.
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
03/24/2005 2:58:23 PM PST
by
mhking
(If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!)
To: Calvin Locke
What were they firing at on Cape cod? Arty range???
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posted on
03/24/2005 3:01:42 PM PST
by
Lokibob
(All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
To: Gator101
"Check Fire, I repeat, Check Fire! "Isn't it supposed to be "Check Fire, I say again, Check Fire!"....and that didn't always work either.
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posted on
03/24/2005 3:03:21 PM PST
by
506trooper
(No such thing as too much guns, ammo or fuel on board...unless you're on fire)
To: 506trooper
Never say "FIRE FOR EFFECT"!
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posted on
03/24/2005 3:05:44 PM PST
by
Lokibob
(All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
To: Charlespg
LOL, Friendly fire......isn't.
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posted on
03/24/2005 3:05:44 PM PST
by
506trooper
(No such thing as too much guns, ammo or fuel on board...unless you're on fire)
To: Lokibob
Not if you're not sure where the effect will be.
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posted on
03/24/2005 3:06:58 PM PST
by
506trooper
(No such thing as too much guns, ammo or fuel on board...unless you're on fire)
To: OSHA
Shell fishing . . . .
To: Lokibob
Yep, training. It was probably about 10 years ago.
To: razorback-bert
I wonder if there is a mountainer standing on the side of the mountain yelling "Fire in the hole"!
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posted on
03/24/2005 3:22:12 PM PST
by
Chapita
(There are none so blind as those who refuse to see! Santana)
To: Lokibob
What were they firing at on Cape cod Most likely windmills.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
That reminds me a of story. Back when I was in the Army, a lot of our younger pilots liked to say "Lima Charlie" instead of "Loud and Clear" because it sounded cooler on the radio, I guess.
One day, the Senior Instructor pilot finally had enough. He says; "Don't you knuckle-heads realize that we use the phonetic alphabet to make letters more clear. We use letters in acronyms to be able to say things quicker. There are more syllables in "Lima Charlie" than there is in "Loud and Clear"...so knock it off!
We no longer heard "Lima Charlie" on the radio.
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posted on
03/24/2005 3:33:20 PM PST
by
Gator101
To: rface
ping
Isn't your brother in Pleasant Grove?
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posted on
03/24/2005 3:33:59 PM PST
by
SavageRepublican
(Like Springtime in Oklahoma.....)
To: patton
Never, ever, say "REPEAT" when calling a cease fire. Say again...
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posted on
03/24/2005 3:39:42 PM PST
by
in the Arena
(James Wayne Herrick, Jr. Captain/US Air Force - MIA - Laos - 27 October 1969)
To: Lokibob
They didn't return fire? Now the the state's going to move in on them - make them watch PBS.
Not in MY free fire zone.
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posted on
03/24/2005 3:55:25 PM PST
by
Blogatron
(- Automated Freeping Device. (Please insert 2 cents for the next rightist harangue))
To: Arrowhead1952
That's almost as bad as troops at Ft. Hood sending SIX rounds off post. Almost hit a house and barn. In 63, a reserve DE escorting us on a training cruise fired the main battery (at least two salvoes) 180 degrees to the gunnery range's axis, and bracketted...and panicked...a Japanese freighter over the horizon.
Next, an AA target-towing plane refused to come back with a new target after they chopped the target tow line about 10' aft of the tail with quad 40's.
The next week the same DE was leaving leaving port, and sideswiped a Japanese lumber freighter, sustaining extensive damage.
Not a bad record for a short two weeks.
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posted on
03/24/2005 4:27:06 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
To: razorback-bert; patton
beancounter pothole filling muzzlephucers can't shoot anything properly.....
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posted on
03/24/2005 6:19:03 PM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: Squantos
Yeah, but was EOD on call? LOLOL
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posted on
03/24/2005 6:20:35 PM PST
by
patton
(the curious organism known as bdelloid rotifer)
To: Lokibob
Dude, you gotta be smarter than the gun tube!
(The Department of Transportation owns a 105 howitzer? And they're afraid of US owning "assault weapons"?!)
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posted on
03/24/2005 6:22:13 PM PST
by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired...)
To: Lokibob
I know nothingggggggg, nothingggggggg
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posted on
03/24/2005 6:57:21 PM PST
by
Allosaurs_r_us
(Idaho Carnivores for Conservatism)
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