Guy Finds Missile Launcher In Backyard, Nobody Wants It
A resident of Comal County, Texas named Jarrette Schule found a military issue missile launcher in his backyard. Figuring that the government would surely be looking for it, he made some calls. Amazingly enough, no one seemed to care.
But Schule spent Tuesday afternoon calling the FBI, Homeland Security, the Sheriff’s Department – every agency he could think of. He was stuck in a bureaucratic limbo.
“Everyone was handing it off to everybody else,” Schule said.
He was surprised at the amount of work it took to get the military to pick up its lost missile launcher.
Schule called the military police at Fort Sam. But their jurisdiction doesn’t extend off the post. Schule’s information was passed along to an Army criminal investigator, who visited Schule on Wednesday morning – about 19 hours after he started making phone calls.
Markings identified the weapon as a guided missile launcher built in 1996. It still has the 13-digit military stock number that will be used to identify its origins and, possibly, how it might have wound up on the property of a man who lives miles from a military installation. Could there be crazy Texans out there hunting deer with black market military missile launchers? Honestly, I wouldn’t be that surprised. [MySA News via Neatorama]
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This is the military that has the most advanced and lethal weaponry in the world.
And we’re worried about ROBOTS?
A similar thing happened to my father in the 60’s. He was snorkelling and found a cache of unexploded WWII era bombs, dumped in the bay. He called the police. They said to call the air force, it was their bombs. The air force said to call the Navy, the bombs were in the water. They said to call the airforce. After a bit of this, he let it be.
About 5 years later, someone else found them. They called the newspaper, which got results!