Rocket Launcher Found on City Street

Rocket Launcher Found on City Street
May 27, 2004 — Police want to know why neighborhood kids have been playing with an anti-tank grenade launcher in the 25-hundred block of North 18th Street in North Philadelphia.

It is the modified grenade launcher, a 1.8 millimeter anti-tank weapon found on a North Philadelphia Street late last night by a child. It's in police hands now but it was apparently a neighborhood play toy and curiosity for several days before the parent of a 12-year-old found it and brought it home.

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Police say this anti-tank weapon had been rendered inoperable. It was probably purchased at a gun show to be kept as a collectible but they are not amused by its presence on a public street in a densely populated neighborhood.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/052704_nw_rocketlaunch.html

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Not much to this TV 'news' story, but I note this is second time a rocket launcher was found in last week or so (Atlanta area last time).

http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=23040&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

I wonder if AQ is trying to send a message or something.

This is weird.

great Bruce Cockburn song.

Philadelphia has links to Al Queda

It will surely "net" the suspect.:crazy:

:shrug: :wtf: :evilgrin: I smell a rat!

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so that's about 1/4 the size of a .22 caliber shell!

must fire them little poison darts or sumthing? :shrug:

I guess they should do some homework on weapons stats, no? (even a measuring tape woulda helped out there)

oh well

There's thousands of REAL rocket launchers in the attics, basements and garages of dedicated Murikkans I'm sure . .

(sigh)

Same situation, kids playing with the damn thing....kinda freaky how often this is happening...

What is the big freaking deal? It just looks bad.

When I was a kid, we had an old bazooka (no rounds of course) that we used in our war games... I cannot imagine how anybody was gonna get hurt with that thing unless you used it as a club.

If it wasn't inoperable, this would be a story. Otherwise it's just some army surplus display item someone's missing. Inert shells, grenades, even big guns with concrete down the barrel aren't news either.

It's amazing what some people go through to decorate their house when they've never heard of Pier 1. :silly:

i wouldn't be surprised if the gangs have fashioned RPGs.

there is no worse area in america than the kennsington section of philly. even the cops don't go down there anymore.

"...the only thing we can do now is to buy tanks and start mounting machine-guns."

- Frank Rizzo, mayor of Philadelphia, 1970

now that the police tool an empty tube away from those kids.

Maybe the kids will do something more productive like use drugs instead of playing around like kids. :eyes:

that were said to be a "dry run" for a terrorist attack?

The message? In case anyone's forgotten, BE AFRAID.

NOT!

It must suck to be Calico Johnnie. I mean, you call a press conference, spin a tale of the Boogeyman, lean over into the cameras and go "BOO!"

And everyone yawns.

They've got an ARTILLERY piece and a TANK out in the lawn by their "safe-house"!

BTW, what does "VFW" stand for, and why do they have it on their "safe-house" in big letters?

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