Flight Attendant: And out the left side windows...

[Luther]

Rocket Launcher ornament

Jul 20, 2007 12:12 pm US/Eastern

CBS2 Exclusive: Feds Seize Rocket Launcher In N.J.
BREAKING NEWS: Found On Jersey City Lawn

Scott Weinberger
Reporting

(CBS) JERSEY CITY A Jersey City woman made a shocking discovery on her lawn this morning when she noticed a military rocket launcher lying in the grass.

Niranjana Besai was leaving her house at 88 Nelson Street, to go to work at just after 8 a.m. when she saw the launcher on her front lawn. She immediately called police.

Besai's neighbor, Joe Quinn saw her pointing at the equipment from her front porch. When he walked over to the six-foot-long weapon, he was just as shocked. “It looked like a bazooka,” he told CBS 2 News.

Quinn tells CBS 2 HD he originally thought the launcher was just a pipe, but after noticing it had a picture of a soldier on it, he realized it looked similar to a missile launcher he'd seen on television.

Jersey City Police removed the launcher, and the incident is now being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force and The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Jersey City Police could not confirm whether it was actually operable.

But, sources tell CBS 2’s Scott Weinberger that it’s the kind of missile that can take down an aircraft and the area where the launcher was discovered is in or very near a flight path for Newark Liberty International Airport.

Now this is EXACTLY what was going through my mind while I sat in that British Airways jet last year, on the tarmac at Beirut International Airport. We landed there to "drop and pick up a few passengers", and then to continue on to Amman, Jordan. The plane was about half full and people were standing up, stretching, getting things out from the above bins and shit, but not me. Even though it was dark, I was peering out my little window, scanning for anything to look suspicious near the edges of the airport. I was a little concerned that this was going to be the day my dice cup rolled out some snake eyes or something.

As we took off I kept whispering to myself, "Oh please, Big GUY, please don't let a flaming telephone pole come screaming up here and blow my ass into little bittie chunks....Oh please, BIG GUY."

I have a feeling somewhere, maybe even this year, that a commercial plane will take a shot in the ass from a shoulder held missile type launcher. The recent crash in Sao Paulo, Brazil made me initially think that it happened there. But I guess that isn't the case, tho.

Any of you businessmen fly out of any creepie airports, especially an International Airport? I remember Mister Bushice probably had his starfish vibrating when he went to _______________ last year. Where was that again, MB? The Philippines, Malaysia ?

Rip City

[Dog]

I fly into San Francisco and Portland on a regular basis, and I find both of those places to be very creepy.

[Luther]

mv, you've offered a little bit of encourgement, but I still don't know. If a missile hit one of the engines, and only knocked it out, maybe. I'm worried about the explosion tearing into the engine, the engine blows too and while I'm sitting in my airline seat I see half the left wing fly off.

In the hands of trained terrorists, MANPADS are formidable threats to unprotected aircraft and most of the thousands of civilian aircraft are unprotected. Furthermore, installing effective countermeasures on these planes would be a time-consuming and costly process. For example, a program to equip 3000 U.S. commercial aircarft with Northrup Grumman's Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) system would cost around $3 billion and require 6 years to complete.15 Outfitting civilian planes worldwide would take much longer, and countermeasures installed today may not be effective against next generation MANPADS. Thus, civilian aircraft are likely to be vulnerable to MANPADS attacks for the foreseeable future.

Doesn't El Al have countermeasures with their planes?

MANPADS, ...hmmm...I just thought that was something that War Wagon wore all day when he was driving the 'lift. :D

Rip City

[Atomic Punk]

Great, the board tards will be on the side of the terrorists when I fly into Newark in 7 weeks (right AFTER 9/11).

[Mister Bushice]

Who the hell leaves a rocket launcher on a front lawn?
Seriously, if that is the level of terrorists we're going to see here, we may not have much to worry about.

Luth, over the past year I've flown to Japan, Manila, Hawaii, and New York, and I don't fear MANPADS as much as I do inhaling the funk the other people on the plane are breathing and farting out into that tiny metal tube I'm stuck in.

One thing I have to say is that over the last two years they have really streamlined the TSA search process. The international airports are much freakier and less logical than the US airports are (I was scanned and searched leaving San Francisco to New York, but as long as I stayed within the terminal at La Guardia I was not searched again. On the way over to the far east I was scanned leaving LAX, then scanned again when I arrived in Narita Airport in Tokyo TWICE. I guess they figured I MacGyvered a bomb while on the plane out of crackers, string, and a mini bar bottle of vodka.

It was a stupid waste of an hour standing in that line just when we stepped off the plane, and even more ridiculous when they did it again before we boarded our connecting flight 45 minutes later without leaving the terminal. I can understand them doing it if I left the airport ( which I didn't do on the way there, but did on the way back), but talk about overkill.

Then again, most of the Nips on the plane were wearing face masks, so I guess the whole country is a little anal.

That being said I'll take the under on a terrorist plane attack here sometime in the next 12 months. You have to believe those dirtbags have smuggled in rocket launchers and are plotting something. Our borders are so porous, and it's too easy to hide here.

Lets just hope that Bush hasn't pulled too many people off line here to fight and die over in the sand.

[Y2K]

Oooooooops!

I knew I forgot something important back in Jersey....

Sorry

[Mister Bushice]

Turns out it was a spent AT-4 not a Manpads.

The Swedish unguided one, or the Russian guided one?

And where would that have come from?

[Mister Bushice]

It seems highly unlikely many planes would be hit:

The system's tactical engagement range is 250 meters and has been used in multiple combat situations.

They'd have to be awfully close to the landing strip and have very good tracking aim to hit a landing plane.

This is US military level ordnance, correct? - why would you say that the tubes would be easy to get?

[Dinsdale]

why would you say that the tubes would be easy to get?

Because they're everywhere. I'll bet if I really wanted to, I could come up with one by the end of the weekend, quite possibly by the end of the afternoon.

Maybe they're not too hard to come by because they're worthless, save for a little scrap value.

Now the rockets that go in them... whole 'nother story. Wouldn't know how to get one easily, nor do I want to know.

[Y2K]

Discarded or crushed?

What a bummer, a crafty type person could make a serious Potato Gun outta a tube launcher. I wonder if you could drop a small plane with a large Idaho Russet.....

[Luther]

If AQ found out about Mrs. Luth's meatloaf recipe I'm sure many more planes would have burst into flames from the rear head of 747s. It is just amazing that just by combining burger meat, a box or two of Lipton Onion Soup and her special ingredients that a person could belch fire out of their ass with the power of one of Oppenheimer's creations.

Richard Reid had nothing on my wife. That tard tried to light his shoe bomb on fire, and got beat up by little flight attendants and a few pissed off passengers. AQ kidnaps my wife and we ALL are in a world of shit, people. I was upstairs a little while ago and I saw three scary things on the kitchen counter.

Lipton Onion Soup Boxes
Hamburger
Those two jars with scary shit in them

Don't worry, I'm not flying.

Rip City

[OTST]

I wonder if you could drop a small plane with a large Idaho Russet.....

Better have a good set of flame proof undies to launch Miss Conduct that high.

Discarded or crushed?

I'm guessing crushed.

[Derron]

mv, you've offered a little bit of encourgement, but I still don't know. If a missile hit one of the engines, and only knocked it out, maybe. I'm worried about the explosion tearing into the engine, the engine blows too and while I'm sitting in my airline seat I see half the left wing fly off.

Extremely unlikely. An Airbus A300 got tagged with an SA-7 in Baghdad a couple years ago and safely made an emergency landing without any injuries and that plane is just a bit bigger than the 900 series 737s.

If you're in a big ass 747 or something, I wouldn't worry about it at all.

Of course not.....not unless it hits the elevator, vertical stabilizer, hydraulic controls, cockpit, or any one of the other non essential parts of the aircraft.

[Mikey]

I'll be flying into Stewart/Newburgh/Poughkeepsie or whatever they call it now on Friday. That whole Newburgh area is pretty damn funky but the only real danger I can imagine might be if a large meth lab explodes under the flight path while we're landing.

[PSUFAN]

Derron knows all about hitting cockpits with his missile.

[Derron]

Derron knows all about hitting cockpits with his missile.

See how faggots can read a homosexual reference into ANYTHING they see posted ??

How can anybody say theres not a gay agenda in this country ??

[Goober McTuber]

Derron knows all about hitting cockpits with his missile.

IKYABWAI