Breaking News: Navy says F18 practice bomb

[malaise]

accidentally dropped on a Virginia beach warehouse.
WTF?

CNN

Add.

[Marrah_G]

1. err what?

[gateley]

2. It's not on either of their sites yet - nt

[cuke]

3. It sounds like

a Navy F18 accidently dropped a bomb on a Va Beach warehouse.

[zabet]

4. Must be the warehouse

that OBL is hiding in. :sarcasm:

[rocktivity]

5. Sounds like somebody in the Navy

needs a lot more practice.

:(
rocknation

[malaise]

8. Thankfully it was a dud

No one was injured according to CNN live cable. Nothing on their website yet.

[MyNameGoesHere]

15. Actually stray voltage

can ignite the squibs. Flying through the air can pick up quite a bit of eddy currents. But who knows? maybe the dude just hit the "pickle" as he was stroking it.

[cuke]

21. True

There are a lot of warehouses in VB. I'm sure they're up to no good

[spinbaby]

6. Do practice bombs explode?

Or just fall through the roof?

[MyNameGoesHere]

14. They have explosives in them

more to identify when they hit a target than for percussive force.

[Xithras]

7. Concrete dud?

I don't think they practice with live bombs. Probably just put a really big hole in the roof. Hopefully nobody was underneath it inside.

[malaise]

9. Yep

that's the good news.

[proud patriot]

10. What was the damage ?

was anyone hurt?

[malaise]

11. No one hurt

watching for an update.

[Ezlivin]

12. Good thing it wasn't "accidentally" loaded with nuclear weapons

But, hey, our military would never, ever fuck up like that, right?

(No, they wouldn't because of a little thing called chain of command.)

[MyNameGoesHere]

13. Stuff like that happens in that area

more often than than you would think. we had an aircraft jettison a canopy un-commanded at 30000 feet over VA Beach. It laded somewhere close to lynnehaven mall. Landed in a guys back yard.

[Benhurst]

16. No story here. Typical precision bombing.

[orleans]

17. hum...maybe someone should fly more nukes across the country

while they're at it.

[malaise]

18. Here's a link

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--droppedbomb1030oct30,0,6211195.story

<snip>
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The Navy said a small, inert training bomb fell Tuesday from an F/A-18C Hornet fighter jet that was heading to Oceana Naval Air Station. No one was hurt.

The Navy said in a statement that the bomb hit a wall adjacent to a warehouse in the resort city of Virginia Beach. Minimal damage was reported.

The aircraft was returning to Oceana following a training mission at the Navy's bombing range in Dare County, N.C., when it dropped the bomb. The jet landed safely at Oceana.

[Captain Hilts]

19. There is a house near Oceana and the Mall there with practice bombs half-buried in the front yard.

[Little Star]

20. Bet the rent is pretty cheap around there. n/t

[Parche]

22. Too Bad

They weren't flying over Crawford TX...............:hi:

[malaise]

23. Not really

would have been a meeting of the duds. :D

[Javaman]

24. What was that talk about fighting them over there, so we don't

have to...oh never mind.

[spanone]

25. OOPS! Good news, it wasn't nuclear.

[Bucky]

26. My fellow Americans, today we have launched Operation Warehouse Freedom

Mission Accomplished!

[malaise]

29. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Blitzer discussing now.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

27. wasn't one of those stray nuclear missiles that went missing?

[Squatch]

28. Navy, can I make a suggestion? PRACTICE HARDER

[hootinholler]

30. Was it a carpet bomb?

That's what you would use on a carpet warehouse.

-Hoot

[malaise]

31. LOL

:rofl: