[Hi Heels]

Now THERE'S something to find on your lawn one morning....

[Westlander]

I was wondering why the neighborhood fireworks were especially loud this year.

[Chode]

Such launchers can only be used once to fire a missile, and soldiers determined that this launcher had been fired, he said.

if the tube is EMPTY... that should be their FIRST clue that it's spent. it's pretty much a given, no determination necessary.

[dbacks]

Media hysteria machine in action. Once again, they had to rescind a previous jump into ‘conclusionville’.

Damn drama queens.

[Wombat101]

If I recall, the AT-4 waas Swedish-made, and consisted of a launcher and an 84mm (some say this is where it got it’s designation, from the size of the warhead) High-explosive-anti-tank (HEAT), shaped charge round, and had a range of 1,000 meters. The US Marine Corps (and the IDF) referred to the AT-4 as “the Bunker Buster”.

If it was found on a lawn in New Jersey directly across from Manhattan, it was most definitely found in a spot which sits astride, or dead-on, the flight path to Newark (Liberty) International Airport.

Perhaps some of our Muslim friends in Jersey City (where they are legion) training for a potential attack on an aircraft?

Something to look into, i should say....

[TexasCajun]

Sorry! Just a pile of “Faulty Wiring”, move along.

[bd476]

Hi Heels wrote: "Now THERE'S something to find on your lawn one morning...."

Some alternate sub-headlines:

• Kids These Days!
• Teen Pranksters Flush T-P-ing and Leave Dad's War Souvenir
• Recycling: For the Children
• Martha Stewart: Create Herbal Gardens Out of Anything
• Burglaries Decrease When Watch Dog Replaced by Missile Launcher

[Slings and Arrows]

Used AT-4’s and LAWS’s are not considered munitions, and may be ordered through the mail by anyone. Bit of a non-story.

[GingisK]

I grew up in the 50s and 60s. We had all sorts of WWII junk to play with: Gas maskes, dummy bazooka rockets, dummy mortar shells, belts of spent machine gun brass, and so on. Nobody came unglued when we went through the neighborhood in squad file bristling with really cool ordnance. Of course, all of that stuff was given to us by adults who had a grip on reality.

How come people of today are are so stupid?

[Calpernia]

Hey, some people have pink flamingos.....