Workers Taped Together Explosive Pieces (Pantex Nuclear Plant)

AP/Yahoo ^ | 1-23-2004 | Matt Kelley

[FreedomPoster]

ROFLOL! I really *like* your sense of humor. That's rich.

[Ichneumon]

I heard the audio on the crash crew on that one, "What's he doing now, look at that, what the hell, OH SHIT, come on guys, get'em rolling.

The eeriest cockpit voice recording I ever heard starts with an obviously new stewardess asking, "what's that?", and the pilot answers, "oh, that's the recorder, so that if we ever crash our loved ones can listen to our last words, ha ha." Four minutes later the plane had a mechanical problem during takeoff and crashed, killing all aboard.

[WestTexasWend]

LOL...didn't realize they'd changed hands :) (That can apply to either of your posts)

[U S Army EOD]

Still the last words of the Challenger pilot tops them all which was, "Uh oh".

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Such a reaction could have "potentially unacceptable consequences"

Who does their press releases? Alexander Haig?

[U S Army EOD]

True------it took me a little while to catch on to that one, surely there must be an Aggie joke that is simular.

[WestTexasWend]

BTW, is anyone else here just waiting for Wes Clark to say "I'm in charge here"? Is it something in the water at NATO?

[WestTexasWend]

...or an Aggie that can change hands.

[U S Army EOD]

I could picture Wes Clark saying, "I may have been in charge here, but that depends on who I am talking to, who is listening, what the situation is, and of course it could change tomorrow where I am not in charge depending on the circumstances".

[U S Army EOD]

If you had two Aggies facing each other at arms length that would certainly be possible.

[WestTexasWend]

ROFLMAO!

[xsrdx]

The Amarillo Pantex plant gets pretty decent marks for security, IIRC. The DOE runs pretty frequent "Red Team" (theoretically) surprise infiltrations and the Pantex plant is one of only a handful that ever catch anybody.

They also field a pretty successful 3 Gun/Tactical team that places pretty well at national level LE Tactical competitions, at least in the past.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

No. Figuratively speaking...you need a set of balls for that.

[null and void]

No. Figuratively speaking...you need a set of balls for that.

I think with aggies, you need a set of bulls...

[Travis McGee]

132 ping.

[Travis McGee]

Amen. Maybe some of them are novelists in training?

< /grin >

[U S Army EOD]

So does Savannah River Plant but all these exercises are planed. The inspectors don't really know where to look.

[U S Army EOD]

Aggies will still qualify as long as you don't have to play with your own.

[templar]

The more I hear about this, the more amusing it becomes to me. We all hear about someone in Bosnia or Iraq or somewhere blowing themselves up trying to drill or pound out an unexploded artillery roung or rock or something to get the metal for salvage. It seems it (ordnance stupidity) isn't limited to the third worlders.

Wonder what property values in the vicinity of this plant are doing?

[U S Army EOD]

Once again, read all the post, there is nothing wrong with using tape, especially if there was a crack or some powdered explosive. The tape would be a help since it would stop further movement of the explosive.