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50 pound slab of blue ice falls off Air Force One narrowly missing “Occupy Las Vegas” protesters
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/41638 ^ | 10-24-11 | Steve Miller

Posted on 10/28/2011 8:02:17 AM PDT by bigbob

A group of several dozen “Occupy Las Vegas” protesters camping on Clark County land located under the final approach to Runway 19 at McCarran International Airport today narrowly missed being injured when a 50 lb. slab of “blue ice” reportedly landed within feet of their tents.

According to witnesses, the slab fell to earth seconds after Air Force One passed overhead while landing.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: airforceone; blueice; chamberpot; lasvegas; obamasfault; occupy; occupylasvegas; poophappens; thundermug
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To: bigbob

Would that be what falls from the toilets on planes?So these people war nearly killed by Obama’s sh!t? Somehow there must be awoke in there?


41 posted on 10/28/2011 8:55:42 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: bigbob

Would that be what falls from the toilets on planes?So these people were nearly killed by Obama’s sh!t? Somehow there must be awoke in there?


42 posted on 10/28/2011 8:56:01 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Don Corleone

But remember, his don’t stink.


43 posted on 10/28/2011 9:34:44 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Cicero

I betcha the good folks at Labatts are not at all pleased about this....


44 posted on 10/28/2011 10:00:00 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: bigbob

I really doubt this story.

Given the amount of TLC that the two Presidential VC-25’s get from their maintenance crews, I don’t think anything like this could happen even if Obama himself ordered it. Their systems are monitored and kept at such a high standard, far higher than other military or civilian aircraft, that something like this is difficult to believe.


45 posted on 10/28/2011 11:23:38 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Given the amount of TLC that the two Presidential VC-25’s get from their maintenance crews, I don’t think anything like this could happen even if Obama himself ordered it. Their systems are monitored and kept at such a high standard, far higher than other military or civilian aircraft, that something like this is difficult to believe.


Precisely my reaction. Send out the AF1 experts to test the ground where the attention-whore say it melted, and put them in prison for false reporting of an aviation hazard.


46 posted on 10/28/2011 11:27:28 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Author of BullionBible.com - Makes You a Precious Metal Expert, Guaranteed.)
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To: Clay Moore
....the dump valve is slowly leaking and it makes an “iceberg” on the outside.

Hmmmm. I wonder if anyone has called the EPA?

They'd do it for you.

47 posted on 10/28/2011 11:50:05 AM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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48 posted on 10/28/2011 12:41:39 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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50 pound slab of blue ice falls off Air Force One narrowly missing “Occupy Las Vegas” protesters

Pinging, just because....

49 posted on 10/28/2011 12:53:30 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: bigbob

Don’t they clean the lavatories whenever he stops? There was a 50 pound dump on board? Moochie must have had a very hardy breakfast.


50 posted on 10/28/2011 1:05:57 PM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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To: LucyT

Glad it wasn’t an “ice” bomb deliberately dropped by a Republican President! LOL!


51 posted on 10/28/2011 1:24:56 PM PDT by melancholy (0b0z0's '12 campaign slogan: Read My Lips, Nooo...Newwww...Joooobs.)
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To: SandRat

Nah, this was a condensed Wookie gaseous discharge.


52 posted on 10/28/2011 1:29:03 PM PDT by melancholy (0b0z0's '12 campaign slogan: Read My Lips, Nooo...Newwww...Joooobs.)
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To: Brookhaven
My point was, this stuff doesn’t just “fall off” an airplane. It has to be dumped deliberatly.

The article makes it sound like an accident or freak mishap.

As far as I recall, there's no mechanism provided for an aircraft to dump its holding tanks in-flight. A leak can cause the liquid to freeze onto the outside of the plane at high altitude. The resulting ice sticks to the plane as long as it remains frozen. When the plane descends for landing, the ice can warm up, soften/melt, and fall off.

That's what apparently happened here. While it's an unusual occurrence, it does happen.

53 posted on 10/28/2011 1:35:27 PM PDT by Bob
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To: autumnraine

There is a verb conjugatiion rule in there somewhere.....

a la

to, is (needs ‘ing’), will, did ‘i’
‘a’
was (needs ‘ing’ again), has, will have, would have/could have/should have...’a’
__ (??)’en’ Perhaps shot. Or, perhaps another word entirely, like ‘went/gone’ ‘Gone’ would be good.

;>


54 posted on 10/28/2011 2:20:43 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: silverleaf

I see a bunch of OWS folks worshipping the frozen poo like a
fallen god like in “The Gods Must be Crazy”.


55 posted on 10/28/2011 3:52:53 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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Re: ...one of those stories where the jokes just write themselves...

Well, I can provide the makings... for some green ice to dump on the protestors!

56 posted on 10/28/2011 6:13:22 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: combat_boots

I was placing an “a” where the asterisk was. ;o)


57 posted on 10/29/2011 6:08:26 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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