Rogue Insect Takes Down Missile Truck

By Nathan Hodge October 12, 2009 | 9:55 am



It sounds like the opening scene of a B movie: A giant bug lands on a truck driver transporting intercontinental ballistic missiles. The trucker swerves off the road, inadvertently kicking off Armageddon.

The unthinkable didn’t happen when a truck driver recently lost control of a tractor-trailer carrying missile parts from Minot Air Force Base, N.D. But according to a statement released Friday by Air Force Space Command, the incident — which did not involve nuclear materials — was in fact caused by a “large insect” that landed on the driver’s back.

This was the second crash of nuclear missile base vehicle in just over a year. Last July, the Air Force had to recover a truck carrying the rocket booster for an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile after it ran off a gravel road in North Dakota. According to the Associated Press, cleaning up after that mess cost $5.6 million.

And this latest mishap occurred as the Air Force continues to revamp the nuclear mission. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates sacked the service’s top general and senior civilian after a series of embarrassing snafus, including a 2007 “bent spear” incident and the inadvertent exported of fuses for nuclear missiles to Taiwan in 2006.

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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/rogue-insect-takes-down-missile-transport-truck/

I thought this was going to be another thread about Sarah Palin...

:rofl:

Can Sarah Palin prove that she wasn't the instigator of this large insect? Where's Orly Taitz? Another case!

Like they did in War of the Worlds with YB-49...

i freaked out, and and tried to get it out- when i looked back up, i had crossed the center line and was going the wrong way in the wrong lane.

luckily, there had been no oncoming traffic when it happened.

I had a wasp sting me in the arse when I was driving on the expressway.. I took an off ramp and jumped out of the car dancing and grabbing my butt I must have looked like a madwoman

Ba dum tschhh.

and danced around trying to snort out the bug. I probably looked to observers like I was having a seizure. Luckily I wasn't in a car.