RTicUL8
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Rocky Mountain High... Colorado!
This guy had to have peed his pants as he went over the edge.
http://www.cybersalt.org/cleanlaugh/missiledrop.htm
http://www.cybersalt.org/cleanlaugh/missiledrop.htm
Need better brakes? Funny pic...
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RichP
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Effort, Pa
Gotta wonder how many of his fellow dock workers, security workers and others did too !!! Wonder how many of THEM tried to run away, like it would help any 
- Location
- Westminster, SoCal
HMMMM makes me wonder if that pic wasn't a setup or a photoshop job as
1. The center of mass would be a bit wrong based on how that missile lay in that pic and I could imagine it teetering over to the side
2. Where is the cleanup crew? I don't imagine them leaving it alone with one rent a cop to just sit..... and I don't imagine even a rent a cop to be as stupid as to get so close to it...
Kejtar
1. The center of mass would be a bit wrong based on how that missile lay in that pic and I could imagine it teetering over to the side
2. Where is the cleanup crew? I don't imagine them leaving it alone with one rent a cop to just sit..... and I don't imagine even a rent a cop to be as stupid as to get so close to it...
Kejtar
Ralph
NAXJA Member #149
- Location
- Lubbock, Texas
Pic looks real enough to me. You can see where the asphalt got torn up. Those forklifts have a lot of weight in the back. That would prevent it from just nosing over when the front wheels went over the edge.
RR3
RR3
sidriptide
nobody of any consequence
- Location
- western massachusetts
i think its a setup...
#1. the load is too wide for the door behind it and the ramp next to it....
#2. the load most likely would not have stayed on the forks at it bumped and fell over the edge.. and would have rolled after impact..
#3. the torn up pavement doesnt correspond to the position of the forks.... too far out from the boom....
although anything is possible.. it doesnt look right to me... most likely they staged the load on it after the accident...
mike (ever the synic)
#1. the load is too wide for the door behind it and the ramp next to it....
#2. the load most likely would not have stayed on the forks at it bumped and fell over the edge.. and would have rolled after impact..
#3. the torn up pavement doesnt correspond to the position of the forks.... too far out from the boom....
although anything is possible.. it doesnt look right to me... most likely they staged the load on it after the accident...
mike (ever the synic)
- Location
- West Sacramento, CA
I don't care how real it is, I think it's funny.
Sarge
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- St Louis, MO
#1. the load is too wide for the door behind it and the ramp next to it....
Naaah, they get thru those type doors all the time. Hard to describe tho. Corner by the edge of the door, turn and drive forward...edge slides past door, drive forward while completing turn. Like getting a wide counch thru a doorway.
#2. the load most likely would not have stayed on the forks at it bumped and fell over the edge.. and would have rolled after impact..
Often the load is bolted or straped down.
#3. the torn up pavement doesnt correspond to the position of the forks.... too far out from the boom....
although anything is possible.. it doesnt look right to me... most likely they staged the load on it after the accident...
Dunno.
Someone else mentioned a "rent-a-cop". Looks more like a sailor in coveralls. Most likely on a base somewhere so the security is there. Would have never been any fear or danger of the bomb going off either. That's one just a dumb bomb shell. Explosive package added later.
Sarge
Naaah, they get thru those type doors all the time. Hard to describe tho. Corner by the edge of the door, turn and drive forward...edge slides past door, drive forward while completing turn. Like getting a wide counch thru a doorway.
#2. the load most likely would not have stayed on the forks at it bumped and fell over the edge.. and would have rolled after impact..
Often the load is bolted or straped down.
#3. the torn up pavement doesnt correspond to the position of the forks.... too far out from the boom....
although anything is possible.. it doesnt look right to me... most likely they staged the load on it after the accident...
Dunno.
Someone else mentioned a "rent-a-cop". Looks more like a sailor in coveralls. Most likely on a base somewhere so the security is there. Would have never been any fear or danger of the bomb going off either. That's one just a dumb bomb shell. Explosive package added later.
Sarge
- Location
- Westminster, SoCal
Too much shiny stuff on those coverals for it to be a sailor.... reeks of a rent a cop from miles awaySarge said:
Kejtar
Hard to say for sure, but that does look like the newer Navy utility uniform. It has 1" white embroidered name and service tapes above the pockets, is worn with a silver belt buckle and the hat would have a silver "crow" on it. I liked the old dungarees better - the new uniform looks like a Jiffy-Lube outfit. Of course I'm kind of partial to the Khaki's now.
Matt99XJ
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Ringgold, GA
That is a real picture.
Those will fit through the door.
It stays on the forks because those crates are made with the lifting holes in the crate....that plus it weighs 2000 lbs.
Those will fit through the door.
It stays on the forks because those crates are made with the lifting holes in the crate....that plus it weighs 2000 lbs.
Georgia Mike
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Flowery Branch,GA
Those things don't have the firing mechanisms installed until just before the bombing mission to avoid this type of mishap,am I correct? :dunno:
Matt99XJ
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Ringgold, GA
Technically there is no way that it would go off. They are not "activated" until the plane is on the runway about to take off. Even then it won't go off unless the plane tells it to.
- Location
- Torrance, CA
Dude, you can say "They're not activated" as much as you want. If you were the forklift driver you'd still have left a mark in your underoos! 
Yucca-Man
NAXJA Member # 683
- Location
- Castle Rock, CO
1 - it's not a missile. If I recall correctly, it's an air-laid mine (typically for harbor blockade)
2 - I used to have to get coffins that size and larger in and out of magazines with doors that narrow. Like Sarge said, you ease one corner in and play a kind of "parallel parking" game to scoot the load in the door.
3 - Nametapes, baseball hat, gut, hands in pockets...I'm pretty sure we're looking at Navy here. More than likely the entire "event" is sitting just that way because after pulling a stunt like that there will be an investigation, and these pictures may be part of that.
4 - I don't think the pavement in front of the coffin is torn up, that looks more like spall from the gouges that are now hidden in the ground.
5 - You can just see the lifting holes in the middle picture, and the "item" is still in place because it's strapped in by those two big shiny bands...
6 - I'm pretty sure this device is conventional, but even then handling accidents can and will set off ordnance. The fuses are installed and armed shortly before takeoff, but accidents happen...
During the height of Desert Storm I was moving a pallet of three 1,000 pound Mk 83 bombs. We were staging those near the front of the bomb dump, about 50 yards from the guard shack. As I rounded the corner, I noticed two things:
1- The guard shift was changing so I had an audience of about 20-30 Marines watching me.
2- The load was shifting.
All three bombs drifted out to the right, where I swear they hung in the air, taunting me to try to catch them. All I could do was watch them, knowing that if they detonated I would't know it. I did the only possible thing; I looked over at the collected Grunts, and yelled BOOM!! as loud as I could.
They sure hit the deck quickly...after the dust settled I set the pallet down and rolled the bombs back onto my forks one at a time and gently rolled them back onto the pallet.
2 - I used to have to get coffins that size and larger in and out of magazines with doors that narrow. Like Sarge said, you ease one corner in and play a kind of "parallel parking" game to scoot the load in the door.
3 - Nametapes, baseball hat, gut, hands in pockets...I'm pretty sure we're looking at Navy here. More than likely the entire "event" is sitting just that way because after pulling a stunt like that there will be an investigation, and these pictures may be part of that.
4 - I don't think the pavement in front of the coffin is torn up, that looks more like spall from the gouges that are now hidden in the ground.
5 - You can just see the lifting holes in the middle picture, and the "item" is still in place because it's strapped in by those two big shiny bands...
6 - I'm pretty sure this device is conventional, but even then handling accidents can and will set off ordnance. The fuses are installed and armed shortly before takeoff, but accidents happen...
During the height of Desert Storm I was moving a pallet of three 1,000 pound Mk 83 bombs. We were staging those near the front of the bomb dump, about 50 yards from the guard shack. As I rounded the corner, I noticed two things:
1- The guard shift was changing so I had an audience of about 20-30 Marines watching me.
2- The load was shifting.
All three bombs drifted out to the right, where I swear they hung in the air, taunting me to try to catch them. All I could do was watch them, knowing that if they detonated I would't know it. I did the only possible thing; I looked over at the collected Grunts, and yelled BOOM!! as loud as I could.
They sure hit the deck quickly...after the dust settled I set the pallet down and rolled the bombs back onto my forks one at a time and gently rolled them back onto the pallet.
