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Military helicopter drops ammo over Texas elementary school, busts hole in roof
https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/18/military-helicopter-drops-ammo-over-texas-elementary-school-busts-hole-in-roof.amp.html ^

Posted on 05/18/2018 7:37:57 PM PDT by MNDude

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To: MNDude

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


21 posted on 05/18/2018 8:11:06 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: MNDude

It happens rarely. Learn from it and move on.


22 posted on 05/18/2018 8:16:53 PM PDT by lurk
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To: MNDude

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?


23 posted on 05/18/2018 8:19:09 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: MNDude
Let me guess.

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.

24 posted on 05/18/2018 8:21:53 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: generally

Better check your tin foil hat; I think there’s a hole in it. JK \8¢D))


25 posted on 05/18/2018 8:24:47 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: MNDude

Oops! An unsecured box while banking...


26 posted on 05/18/2018 8:28:34 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: MNDude

A week after Florida.... Parkland Pa school dist. lost 25 buses in a fire.


27 posted on 05/18/2018 8:38:31 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: MNDude

My buddy from Ft. Campbell said it was not uncommon for sling loads to drop from a helicopter.


28 posted on 05/18/2018 8:41:53 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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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.


29 posted on 05/18/2018 8:45:41 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: MarkL

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.


30 posted on 05/18/2018 8:46:18 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Carry, practice, pray it don't happen. You ain't carrying you lose automtically.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Unless your are skidding, not banking, things tend to stay glued to the deck.

What the helo was doing at the time is not stated. Hovering and a clumsy crewman, maybe.

31 posted on 05/18/2018 8:51:45 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: MNDude

Geeze, that is bizarre!


32 posted on 05/18/2018 9:12:34 PM PDT by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: Equine1952
Probably 20 pounds or so. Probably no steel toes. Some how this strikes me as amusing.

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

33 posted on 05/18/2018 9:49:15 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Kickass Conservative

You stole my line!:)


34 posted on 05/18/2018 10:06:39 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! First)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Oh, I stopped wearing my tinfoil hat long ago.

Don’t you know the government uses tinfoil hats to focus the mind control beams?

;-)


35 posted on 05/19/2018 4:16:13 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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I would have thought at this point that airspace directly over schools and government buildings would be restricted areas. I guess not.

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.

36 posted on 05/19/2018 4:17:32 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (uires sonm)
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37 posted on 05/19/2018 4:35:55 AM PDT by Pilsner
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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.

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/traffic/2018/04/20/parkland-middle-school-student-killed-hit-vehicle-loop-375-pedestrian/536976002/


38 posted on 05/19/2018 6:09:36 AM PDT by jhastey
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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!


39 posted on 05/19/2018 8:23:03 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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"As God is my witness, I thought Turkeys ammo boxes could fly"
40 posted on 05/19/2018 9:04:52 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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