| anleiher | 15 Oct 2009 8:27 a.m. PST |
I know this is Texas and all but still….just how big are those whitetail deer anyway? link |
 Saber6   | 15 Oct 2009 8:31 a.m. PST |
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| CLDISME | 15 Oct 2009 8:43 a.m. PST |
It is not because the deer are large. It was to kill and cook the deer all at an instantaneous moment. |
| aecurtis | 15 Oct 2009 8:46 a.m. PST |
"Touching and moving the launcher was a mistake, even if it was unarmed, a spokesman for Fort Sam Houston said." You know, if you can look down the tube and see daylight… Oh, never mind. Let's just keep having our toothpaste confiscated at the airport. That'll keep us safe. Allen |
| aecurtis | 15 Oct 2009 8:46 a.m. PST |
"It is not because the deer are large. It was to kill and cook the deer all at an instantaneous moment." No, for that, you want an M202. Allen |
| Saber6 | 15 Oct 2009 8:48 a.m. PST |
ok, on second look it does seem to be expended |
| Pictors Studio | 15 Oct 2009 8:59 a.m. PST |
We find those in the woods around here all the time. Is that what passes for news in Texas these days? |
| anleiher | 15 Oct 2009 9:11 a.m. PST |
Hey, John the OFM….check your pockets. |
| nycjadie | 15 Oct 2009 9:25 a.m. PST |
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| nazrat | 15 Oct 2009 10:01 a.m. PST |
--"I thought just driving down the road, someone would just know that I had a missile launcher in my truck," Schule said, laughing. "You think that way about the government."-- Yep, that's Texas all right. I'VE never thought that way about the government and neither does anybody I know! |
| Jovian1 | 15 Oct 2009 10:56 a.m. PST |
LOL – I guess if I were to find one of those on our rural property – I'd let my friends in military security know and have them send over their friends from bomb disposal to come and claim the piece of equipment. I certainly would look close at it to insure there wasn't a warhead inside before I did anything. @nazrat – right there with you – I've never thought that way about the government either! |
| Shagnasty | 15 Oct 2009 1:21 p.m. PST |
You mean y'all don't see black helicopters overhead every day?
Well, they might be dark green. I do live near Ft. Hood. |
 Extra Crispy  | 15 Oct 2009 3:48 p.m. PST |
And this same government that can't get out of it's own way to pick up a potentially dangerous weapon supposedly also masterminds amazingly complex plots to blow up the Twin Towers in order to pass snooping legislation…. |
| Steve Hazuka | 15 Oct 2009 4:16 p.m. PST |
All of that for a fiberglass tube. Some National Guard unit probably lost it years ago and it washed down rivers in storms, they got lots of those in Texas, ending up right where he found it. Should have sold it to a military surplus store. Without the sight it's just a hollow tube. |
| jdginaz | 15 Oct 2009 5:15 p.m. PST |
It's just a old empty Dragon ATGM launcher tube,launch and throw away the tube. It would be obvious that it was empty and not dangerous. Nobody in the military wants to deal with it because it's nothing. He should sell it on ebay and make a penny off it. The reporter is trying to make a story out of nothing. |
| Jay Arnold | 16 Oct 2009 9:04 a.m. PST |
Comal County is just north of San Antonio and Austin is just up the road. Depending on where exactly he is in the County, he could be at SAT in about 45 minutes to an hour and a half. |
| JackWhite | 16 Oct 2009 12:52 p.m. PST |
Well, if he had advertised it for sale, it suddenly would have been the most important piece of military hardware in the entire arsenal and he'd be facing twenty years, for everything from terrorism to unlawful possession of government property. The real problem is that it takes so much effort to do the right thing. JW |
| dave talley | 22 Oct 2009 11:28 a.m. PST |
yeah Jay
actually I can be at the SA airport from here in NB
in about 25 minutes on a good day, which is good since
I work about a mile away ;-) DT |
