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Shell shocked: Errant avalanche bomb rips Pleasant Grove home (Homer Simpson "Dohhhh" Alert)
Deseret Morning News ^
| Sharon Haddock
Posted on 03/25/2005 7:32:27 AM PST by Lockbar
PLEASANT GROVE — Scott and Lori Connors' family room looks like it was bombed. There are random holes in the walls, gashes in the fabric of the couch and chair. There's broken glass everywhere and a sheet of plywood where the window used to be. Outside, a shed is in tatters, and there's a boulder-size crater in the lawn. Upstairs, there are pieces of shrapnel imbedded in the bathroom wall. A large mirror has what looks like bullet holes in the glass. It looks like it was bombed — because it was.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: artillery; hatewhenthathappens; missed; shell; snow; utah
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:32:29 AM PST
by
Lockbar
To: Lockbar
To: Lockbar
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:34:51 AM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Lockbar
A crater marks the spot in the back yard of the Scott Connors home in Pleasant Grove where a UDOT avalanche-control shell landed and detonated Thursday.
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:40:12 AM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Lockbar
Why does a certain scene from Stripes come to mind here?
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:42:07 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
("Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence" - R. Kirk)
To: Lockbar
"Hold muh beer as I adjust my azimuth alert"
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:42:15 AM PST
by
theDentist
(The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
To: Lockbar
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:42:33 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Wanna join my tag team?)
To: Lockbar
"If the school bus had just been a minute or two earlier, kids would have been walking in the street where the shrapnel went across," Connors said.What about a truck full of cute puppies? If a truck full of cute puppies was driving by there'd be dead puppies everywhere.
And what if a frog had a square butt?
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:42:58 AM PST
by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: theDentist
"Uh...was that one bag of powder or two?"
"Whatever."
"Okay, I'll use two."
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posted on
03/25/2005 7:50:38 AM PST
by
Max in Utah
(By their works you shall know them.)
To: Lockbar
As a former Artillery Officer all I can say is it happens and oh it is not shrapnel it is fragmentation. There is a difference.
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posted on
03/25/2005 8:01:04 AM PST
by
Rogle
To: Lockbar
Someone I used to work with told me a story of a similar occurrence in Alaska back in the 80s. Some kids broke into the avalanche control facility and tried to shell their nearby High School with the Howitzer, but missed and cratered a highway instead.
To: Sundog
~*Almost close to home PING*~
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posted on
03/25/2005 8:11:02 AM PST
by
Skylus
(One shy FReeper who openly admits she cannot word or say things as correctly as she wishes to...)
To: theDentist
"Hold muh beer as I adjust my azimuth alert" From the picture it looks like it was the elevation that was the problem. They overshot their target, the mountain, and the shells landed on the other side. Made a smell of a hess, didn't they?
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posted on
03/25/2005 8:41:43 AM PST
by
El Gato
(Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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