Well, I don't want to shut your mouth. Your recent posts have brought me
great joy.
As for entertaining try this story from my local medium-sized newspaper.
Sit back and enjoy, there is no need to take this one apart.
MONOCACY STATION -- When two local fishermen set out on the Schuylkill
River to find bait fish Sunday afternoon, they never expected to catch a
bomb.
But that's exactly what Michael Nagy of Stowe and Jeremy Lloyd of Boyertown
dragged out of a shallow area beneath the Main Street North bridge, just
north of Route 724.
About 2 feet long and shaped like a rocket, the rusted metal device
obviously should not have been sitting at the bottom of the river, they
surmised.
After taking photos of themselves with it, the two men decided the device
could be dangerous. They drove it to the West Pottsgrove Police Department,
near where Nagy lives, to see if it might be dangerous.
Police took one look at the rocket-shaped thing and knew it was potentially
explosive.
"It was confirmed as an active military device -- an RPG rocket," said West
Pottsgrove Officer Steven Ziegler. "It had the firing pin still in it.
That's how we knew it was live."
Ziegler said the device was a military issue surface to air missile -- one
which was designed to be launched out of a weapon such as a Bazooka gun in
a military operation. That type of device had no business being in the
river, he said.
Working with Amity and Douglass (Berks) police, West Pottsgrove officers
called in the Montgomery County Sheriff Bomb Disposal Unit to assess the
device and, ultimately, detonate it at a remote location in Amity.
West End Fire Co. and Goodwill Ambulance also responded.
Although police were grateful Nagy and Lloyd notified them of a potentially
dangerous situation, Amity Officer Dave Eichelberger offered a warning to
those who find something suspicious: "It's not recommended that people who
find devices like this transport them anywhere," he said.
Police are still investigating how the missile got to the bottom of the
river. The unofficial word was it was dumped there by someone who wanted to
get rid of it.
A similar explosive device was found in the Schuylkill River about six
months ago, police said. In that case, the device was discarded there.
ŠThe Mercury 2002
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Yocum Daniel GS 21
CES/CEOE To: "'bananafish@roughdraft.org'" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
<daniel.yocum@Peterso cc:
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bananafish
Careful, talking in class is frowned upon in this academy, especially if
you
stir up your classmates. It's really not that bad, we occasionally get a
guest lecturer.
It was very entertaining, it reminds me of my trip to the Grand Canyon, as
I
leaned over the rail to peer down, I nearly fell when my brother said
"that's a big hole".
You have shut my mouth.
Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: John P Baumgardner
It seems everyone read this post as an entertaining anecdote with no
underlying
objectives to be investigated. Is this because it was simple, no big words
or popular psychological concepts? Or because I am not an "author"? Well,
was it enjoyable? Would it be more enjoyable to dissect it? How about
trying to interpret any point I was making? Or maybe there is no point and
I'm only amusing myself by tossing some odd shaped rocks upon the water to
watch the ripples? What if that is the point? Any ripples out there?
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