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Man brandishes rocket launcher during argument
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Posted on 09/07/2004 2:34:04 PM PDT by swilhelm73

Man brandishes rocket launcher during argument SYRACUSE, NY — A Syracuse, New York, man got the scare of his life when another man pointed a rocket launcher at him during an argument. Luckily, the weapon had already been used and was inoperable.

Police say the two men were arguing when one of them pulled the rocket launcher out of his girlfriend's vehicle, pulled off the cap, extended the tube and pointed it at the other man.

Police later seized the rocket launcher. No charges were filed.

The man said the rocket launcher came from a friend who had used it in training at Fort Drum.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; fortdrum; rocketlauncher
Ok, why are so many people running around with used rocket launcher tubes in the last few days???
1 posted on 09/07/2004 2:34:05 PM PDT by swilhelm73
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To: swilhelm73
Ok, why are so many people running around with used rocket launcher tubes in the last few days???

Beer Bongs...

2 posted on 09/07/2004 2:36:33 PM PDT by TomServo ("Hi, welcome to Deep 13, would you like to try a creamy thruster-buster?")
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To: swilhelm73
one of them pulled the rocket launcher out of his girlfriend's vehicle,

My girlfriend used to run around all the time with a rocket launcher in her vehicle.

Now she's Mrs. Fierro. < |:)~

3 posted on 09/07/2004 2:37:24 PM PDT by martin_fierro (A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
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To: swilhelm73

Because we want to at least appear to outgun the cops? ;0)


4 posted on 09/07/2004 2:37:28 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.)
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To: swilhelm73

Must have been a few gunshows this weekend.


5 posted on 09/07/2004 2:39:57 PM PDT by Springman
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To: All

I used to carry one, (empty) slung across my back on a regular basis while riding my bicycle in Western Kansas.

It made those truckers think twice about turning me into roadkill.

Semper Fi


6 posted on 09/07/2004 2:41:27 PM PDT by dd5339 (A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero's path.)
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To: swilhelm73

Bruce Cockburn finally got his rocket launcher?


7 posted on 09/07/2004 2:42:13 PM PDT by michaelt
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To: swilhelm73

8 posted on 09/07/2004 2:42:16 PM PDT by Vision Thing (Bling... Bling... It.... On....)
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To: swilhelm73

at which point john kerry jumped out of his passing SUV, blew the unarmed man away with his M-16, and applied for the silver star.


9 posted on 09/07/2004 2:42:44 PM PDT by smonk
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To: swilhelm73

Never bring a gun to a rocket fight?


10 posted on 09/07/2004 2:43:49 PM PDT by Bob
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To: Bob

"Never bring a gun to a rocket fight?"

Damn you. I thought I was going to have all the fun!


11 posted on 09/07/2004 2:45:47 PM PDT by VMI70 (...but two Wrights made an airplane)
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To: YanksGiants2000

Yikes.


12 posted on 09/07/2004 2:48:33 PM PDT by b4its2late (John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
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To: michaelt
YUP If I had a rocket launcher, some son o a beaach would die.

cockburn's politics is really super screwed, But that is a great song.

13 posted on 09/07/2004 2:49:45 PM PDT by Cheapskate ("We got the Steeley Dan t shirts!")
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To: VMI70
(...but two Wrights made an airplane)

Yes, and three lefts do make a right. :=)

14 posted on 09/07/2004 2:49:58 PM PDT by Bob
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To: michaelt
YUP If I had a rocket launcher, some son o a beaach would die.

cockburn's politics is really super screwed, But that is a great song.

15 posted on 09/07/2004 2:50:32 PM PDT by Cheapskate ("We got the Steeley Dan t shirts!")
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To: swilhelm73
Ummm, quick question.

Under what authority did the cops seize a non-weapon in a non-crime?
16 posted on 09/07/2004 2:51:00 PM PDT by taxcontrol (People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: Bob

HAHAHAHAhaahah.... Unloaded, though, a round rock would be more useful.


17 posted on 09/07/2004 2:51:38 PM PDT by Hi Heels
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To: martin_fierro
"Now she's Mrs. Fierro"

There is a song that goes "for a country girl, she was pretty well armed"...Queen of My Double Wide Trailer.

18 posted on 09/07/2004 2:53:07 PM PDT by Deguello
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To: swilhelm73; scholar
Ahhhh yes.
Kinda makes ya yern for the good 'ol days, when if one PO'd a lunatic?
All ya could count on was seeing an ordinary handgun.

"Police later seized the rocket launcher."

The police *seized* a spent rocket launcher, eh.

...now that is weird. {g}

19 posted on 09/07/2004 2:53:59 PM PDT by Landru (Indulgences: 2 for a buck.)
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To: swilhelm73

"Is that a rocket launcher in your pocket or are you glad to see me?"


20 posted on 09/07/2004 2:55:38 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom ("Anyone who calls Moore a Dumb $#$@$ is okay with me." -areafiftyone)
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To: taxcontrol
Under what authority did the cops seize a non-weapon in a non-crime?

He was brandishing it in a threatening manner, and obviously intended to put the person targeted in fear of being killed. That's assault in most localities.

Quick question: if you and I are having an argument, and I pull out a handgun (empty but you don't know that), point it at you, and pull the trigger, have I committed an offense? Hell yes.

The idiot with the rocket launcher is lucky his opponent was not armed, as he would have had legal justification in blowing rocket-man away

21 posted on 09/07/2004 3:01:37 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast.)
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To: SauronOfMordor
From the article "Police later seized the rocket launcher. No charges were filed."

I'm working from the assumption that if this WERE a crime, someone would have been arrested.
22 posted on 09/07/2004 3:03:51 PM PDT by taxcontrol (People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: swilhelm73

Two words - anger management.


23 posted on 09/07/2004 3:04:34 PM PDT by searchandrecovery (Socialist America - diseased and dysfunctional.)
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To: swilhelm73
Police say the two men were arguing when one of them pulled the rocket launcher out of his girlfriend's vehicle, pulled off the cap, extended the tube and pointed it at the other man.

Doesn't take a brainiac to figure out who won that argument.
24 posted on 09/07/2004 3:08:50 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (The theory of evolution is just that - a theory.)
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To: TomServo
Beer Bongs..

yeah, beer....heh, heh...toke, toke...

25 posted on 09/07/2004 3:11:00 PM PDT by pageonetoo (I could name them, but you'll spot their posts soon enough.)
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To: Vision Thing

Say hello to my leetle fren!


26 posted on 09/07/2004 3:17:06 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

Does Detetective Rosewood know that somebody's been borrowing his stuff?


27 posted on 09/07/2004 3:20:55 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Democrats and Liberals suffer from MSD-Massive Spending Disorder)
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To: SauronOfMordor

He was brandishing it in a threatening manner, and obviously intended to put the person targeted in fear of being killed. That's assault in most localities.



That would be the misdemeanor of simple assault, unless in a scuffle entered into voluntarily by both parties, in which case it would be petty assault, under the Model Penal Code.


28 posted on 09/07/2004 3:46:53 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Cheapskate

I agree. I was going to post the lyrics, until I re-read them and decided that I disagree with them enough to not put them on this forum.


29 posted on 09/07/2004 4:53:33 PM PDT by michaelt
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To: b4its2late

Wow, I haven't seen any of them yet...


30 posted on 09/12/2004 5:58:23 PM PDT by YanksGiants2000
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To: YanksGiants2000
Some people are certifiably nuts.
31 posted on 09/13/2004 7:24:31 AM PDT by b4its2late (John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
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To: swilhelm73

i DID NOT EVEN HAVE THE USED ANTI TANK WEAPON ON ME HE KNEW I OWNED ONE WE HAD BEE FREINDS BUT HE FOUND OUT I WAS GOING INTO LAW ENFORCEMENT, SO WHEN I REACHED IN MY JEEP FOR MY BASEBALL BAT THE ARTICLE HERE DIDT SAY THAT HE HAD A BROKEN BEER BOTTLE AND I ALREADY GOT SUCKER PUNCHED SO I TREID TO PULL MY BAT OUT AND MY FIANCE PERSWADEED ME TO NOT FIGHT THIS GUY SO I LEFT AND AS I WAS LEAVING HE STARTED YELLING HES GOT A ROCKET LAUNCHER!!
ALSO LATER I GOT IT BACK
AFTER A LAUGH
AARON WORLEY
SYRACUSE NY
I KNOW MY SPELLING IS BAD IM RIDING IN A CAR AS OF NOW


32 posted on 09/08/2007 8:37:42 PM PDT by AARONW
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To: swilhelm73

I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND


33 posted on 09/08/2007 8:37:43 PM PDT by AARONW
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To: AARONW

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To: The KG9 Kid

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35 posted on 09/09/2007 8:09:23 PM PDT by AARONW
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