Coyote Hunter Stumbles Upon Bazooka Rocket

[gunsmith]

In CA he probably would have been prosecuted for
taking it home.

http://kutv.com/local/local_story_024125103.html

Coyote Hunter Stumbles Upon Bazooka Rocket

ST. GEORGE Police briefly evacuated a neighborhood to take possession of a military-grade rocket that was discovered by a coyote hunter.

The man saw the rocket sticking out of the ground, dug it up and took it home Sunday. He called police when he realized it might not be safe to keep.

“It comes from a shoulder-fired weapon like a bazooka,” St. George bomb-squad commander Jason Whipple said Tuesday. “It was an old piece of ordnance, from back in the ‘50s and ‘60s.”

The area where the rocket was found was a former National Guard firing range, he said.

Authorities did not know if it was a live round.

“The part that would have told us that had been rusted over,” Whipple said.

The 2 1/2-foot-long rocket was taken to a remote area of Washington County and destroyed.

 

[gdvan01]

OK, by show of hands....who else would have dug up something that looked like a friggin' bomb!? I guess he was trying for a Darwin Award.

 

[boredelmo]

*raises hand*


Just kidding. That's pretty not-so-smart of him.

 

[tellner]

Especially since it was set for "Roadrunner"

 

[SwampFox]

I would have stood off 100 yds and shot the tip.

 

[mete]

It obviously belonged to Wiley Coyote.

 

[gdvan01]

Another reliable product from "Acme."

 

[Cybrludite]

Playing with UXO=Darwin Award

 

[romma]

Curiosity killed the cat!

 

[shermacman]

He called police when he realized it might not be safe to keep.

Rarely am I speechless.

 

[hagar]

I would have shot at it from 100 yards away. If it did not explode with 10 rounds, I would have dug it up, took it home and kept it!

 

[Zero_DgZ]

Ditto. If you're hunting cyotes you already have the rifle on you. Stand that silly thing up and blast it a couple of times.

 

[Rumble]

He couldn't shoot it: there wasn't anyone around to hold his beer and watch. So he had to take it home and wait for someone to show up.

At home, he had an inexplicable moment of adaptive behavior (it feels something like cookie dough, I'm told), and contacted EOD.

 

[xd45gaper]

wonder what made him think it might not be safe?

i would have shot it to, images of Joe Dirt come to mind lol!

 

[MD_Willington]

We found an old practice bomb on Tree Island (also called sandy island) Just off Vancouver Island BC, 49 37' 11.12"N, 124 50'57.14"W on google earth. The Island is now a park since 1966.

They used to bomb the island when they had a training base in Comox at HMCS Quadra for WW2. 49 39' 47"N, 124 54'51"W on google earth.

 

[xd45gaper]

i wouldnt trust anything i found in the desert, thats where they do alot of live fire training. they have a bombing range south of my house a couple hours but its all dummy bombs you can deer hunt on the weekends there!

there was a show on the history channel about the desert rats that pick up the exploded ordnace and sale it for scrap. it was kinda crazy i guess its very dangerous also alot of them get blown up and what not.

 

[Babarsac]

*raises hand*

Well only if I was back working in the UXO industry. Fun times those were.

 

[Logan5]

I wonder if the transcript of his 911 call would be anywhere near as funny as I'm imagining it to be.

 

[rugerman]

Any bets he's the same guy that's always on the news when the tornado hits the trailer park in the t-shirt with a beer slogan, nascar hat and saying "well me and the old lady was setting there drinking a beer when we heard a noise that sounded like a train commin down that there dirt road".

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Well, it's mah furst tahm

We ain't never had nuthin' like that 'round here.

How was we to know?

 

[MatthewVanitas]

I would have stood off 100 yds and shot the tip.

Some twit dental assistant at Ft Sill tried that a few years back, while hiking in a former live-fire range.

Plinked away at an 81mm shell with his .22 pistol, ended up having some good-sized chunks of steel extracted from his face.

I haven't learned a lot in life, but I have learned not to #### around with UXO. Very, very bad juju.

Call me a nancy-boy if you like, but I'll be the nancy-boy with all 10 fingers.

-MV

 

[Deanimator]

Coyote Hunter Stumbles Upon Bazooka Rocket

Used to see those things and plenty more, all the time on the ranges at Ft. Benning. I was on the map course one day and found a bazooka rocket in a dry creek bed. I just ignored it and moved on. We used to find .30-06 blanks in Garand clips when we'd dig fighting positions.

One of my NCOs at the US Army Armor & Engineer Board at Ft. Knox had previously been an AGR advisor in Oklahoma. He was EOD qualified, so one day he got called out to a situation in some suburb. When he got to the location, a two story home, he found the garage completely in flames, and the house starting to burn. Walking up the driveway, he tripped over a log. Looking down he discovered that the "log" was the charred remains of the homeowner. Apparently, our little genius had snuck onto one of the artillery ranges at Ft. Sill and carted home a 105mm white phosphorus shell, which he had started sawing open in his garage...

 

[Deanimator]

Some twit dental assistant at Ft Sill tried that a few years back, while hiking in a former live-fire range.

Plinked away at an 81mm shell with his .22 pistol, ended up having some good-sized chunks of steel extracted from his face.

I haven't learned a lot in life, but I have learned not to #### around with UXO. Very, very bad juju.

Call me a nancy-boy if you like, but I'll be the nancy-boy with all 10 fingers.

When I was at Ft. Benning for IOBC in '80, the local Columbus, GA radio stations ran PSAs every five minutes warning people to:

1. Stay out of the impact areas on post.
2. Not handle unexploded ordnance.

It seemed as though every week or two, some ignoramus would take his family into an impact area, where he would proceed to play with unexploded 40mm grenades, killing himself, and usually his wife and kids too.

 

[Rich K]

Some people's kids!:banghead:

 

[50 Shooter]

Two funniest things about this topic...

1st was the antburner remark, 2nd was the Joe Dirt(e) ref.