Fla. fisherman hooks live missile in Gulf waters

[babylonsister]

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/us/2009/06/09/D98N52N01_us_missile_hooked/index.html

Fla. fisherman hooks live missile in Gulf waters


Jun 9th, 2009 | MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. -- Florida authorities say a commercial fisherman reeled in a live missile in the Gulf of Mexico and kept it on his boat for 10 days.

The sheriff's office in Pinellas County say the boat's captain, Rodney Soloman, hooked the air-to-air guided missile 50 miles off the Panhandle town of Panama City. The Air Force and Navy use Gulf waters off the Panhandle for weapons training.

Soloman had the missile aboard his boat for 10 days before returning Monday to port in Madeira Beach, near St. Petersburg.

A bomb squad was called in from MacDill Air Force Base and dismantled the missile in an empty parking lot.

The bomb squad said the missile was very corroded from floating in saltwater for a long time. They said it was live and in a very unstable state.

[KansDem]

1. What's the limit on live missiles?

I hear they make good eating! :9

[votingupstart]

2. no pictures of him standing next to his proud catch?

one time i caught one that was this big, yea i would have kept it but the government wanted it back it was so big.

[peacetalksforall]

3. The Navy sure treats the oceans and the fish and mammals respectfully. We pay for live bomb

training. Isn't that nice.

The news this morning is really something depressing.

[msongs]

4. no bigee - heterosexual human overpopulation will kill all the fish in 20 years or so nt

[Renew Deal]

5. That's the most heterophobic comment I've read on DU today

:silly:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. How is it heterophobic?

[Renew Deal]

7. It's a joke.

:shrug:

[deaniac21]

8. You can't teach stupid.

[Stevenmarc]

9. ROFL "They said it was live and in a very unstable state"

and that in a nutshell is Fl.