Fisherman reels in Sidewinder Air to air missle!

[Bmarshall91]

NICE!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8092123.stm

Long-line fishing boat captain Rodney Solomon reeled in the missile in the Gulf of Mexico, about 50 miles (80km) off Panama City in Florida.

Finding a hole in the missile, Mr Solomon assumed it had gone off. (Cause that's how missles explode... they just put holes inside of themselves!) He kept it as a souvenir and went on fishing for more than a week.

He said it was "a fright" to discover that "any time it could have exploded".

The local fire chief, Derryl O'Neal, told the BBC that Mr Solomon had reported the find on his return from his trip.

/snip

"We're fishermen, nothing scares us!", he told local news organisation WTSP.

But this experience "was kind of a fright".

He said: "It was like, 'wow man, you all took a big chance bringing in this missile. You had it on your boat for 10 days and any time it could have exploded on you'."


red is mine. oh good god! hahahahahaha!

[Robert Kayland]

Approves!

[Philbert]

"He actually came to the fire station and told us he had caught a Tomahawk missile, but it turned out not to be - it was an air-to-air guided missile" known as a Sidewinder, Mr O'Neal said.

Fishermen never change.

[knight0334]

And it turns out it wasn't an explosive missile or device. It was a telemetry version of the missile. No harm, no foul, no laws broke.