Posted on 05/18/2018 7:37:57 PM PDT by MNDude
A military helicopter accidentally dropped a box full of ammunition over a Texas elementary school Thursday mid-afternoon, leaving a gaping hole in the roof, according to officials.
The incident caused a portion of Parkland Elementary School to be without power, the Ysleta Independent School District said in a statement.
The mishap occurred after school had already been released, the statement read. Military police responded to the scene and an investigation is underway.
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A “box of ammunition.” Could be heavy. Could be DAMNED HEAVY!”
Sort of reminds me of my work place back when I was shooting competativly and reloading A LOT. The company I was buying my hard-cast bullets from required a signature, so I had them shipped to my workplace. This jerk salesman saw that there was a fairly small box sitting by the loading dock with my name on it. So he decided to kick it! It was 500 255gr .452 LFN bullets, and it was REALLY heavy.
He limped the rest of the day!
Mark
It happens rarely. Learn from it and move on.
What are the odds the school just happens to be named Parkland, and and the very day a shooting in the very same state as this?
The ammo box was completely undamaged, had no dents, scuffs, or other marks that would have been expected from the violent impact with the roof or from its trip through the various layers of the building's structure.
It was found lying in the middle of a stretcher, in the nurse's office, with no other dust or debris nearby.
Better check your tin foil hat; I think there’s a hole in it. JK \8¢D))
Oops! An unsecured box while banking...
A week after Florida.... Parkland Pa school dist. lost 25 buses in a fire.
My buddy from Ft. Campbell said it was not uncommon for sling loads to drop from a helicopter.
When I was in forth grade in Las Vegas an F-105 Thunderchief crashed a block from the school. I was in afternoon recess and saw the jet nose up, full afterburner crash into nearby homes. Eight people were killed plus the pilot,who went down with the plane. His last words were that he was trying to miss the school. Apparently there was a hydraulic failure. The afterburner melted the roof flashing on the school. We didn’t have grief counselors in those days. Also there was ammo and other ordinance scattered around. At first I thought the jet was a Thunderbird doing stunts but the tremendous crash and mushroom cloud brought reality home early.
Lets see 435 grain’s per ounce, 255 per bullet, 500 in box. It would seem estimating a little for the package material. Probably 20 pounds or so. Probably no steel toes. Some how this strikes me as amusing.
What the helo was doing at the time is not stated. Hovering and a clumsy crewman, maybe.
Geeze, that is bizarre!
There was no "somehow" about it! I was falling down laughing! When I was still in grade school, a friend got a "hot pot" from Cabellas, and he used to make his own fishing sinkers. We thought it would be funny to get an empty soda can, and sort of crush it a bit, then fill it up with lead, and leave it near a sidewalk, where we could watch without being seen.
I was a pretty rotten kid.
Mark
You stole my line!:)
Oh, I stopped wearing my tinfoil hat long ago.
Don’t you know the government uses tinfoil hats to focus the mind control beams?
;-)
If the airspaces "over schools and government buildings were restricted", pilots & passengers would be airsick from all the 'jinking', zigging & zagging required to avoid them.
Besides, anything dropped from altitude can land far from the release point.
This is the same school district that had a student (Jonathan Benko) run over during a school sponsored post-Parkland HS (FL) gun control “walkout”. The student run over was from Parkland Middle School which is only a few blocks away from the Parkland Elementary that had the ammo can fall through the roof.
Don’t you know the government uses tinfoil hats to focus the mind control beams?
Not if you line your hat with Twinkies. They’re impervious to the beams. And they last forever!
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