July 20, 200719 yr 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, located at 88 Nelson Street, to go to work just after 8 this morning when she spotted the launcher on her front lawn. "I read it and it [said] 'missile,'" Besai told CBS 2 HD. "There was little 'missile' [writing] on it." She immediately called police. Sources tell CBS 2 HD that the device is the type used to shoot shoulder-fired rockets and is capable of taking down an aircraft. What's more troubling, sources add, is that Besai's house is located along flight path for Newark Liberty International Airport. Besai's neighbor, Joe Quinn, saw her pointing at the device from her front porch. When he walked over to see what the fuss was about, he was just as shocked to see the six-foot-long weapon. "She's pointing that there's something in the front," he told CBS 2 HD. "I said, 'Let me come down and take a look,' and I saw a little soldier on it and I said, 'Whoa, that's a missile launcher or something!'" Quinn says he originally thought the launcher was just a pipe, but after noticing the picture of the soldier -- which he described as a soldier kneeling, holding the launcher -- he realized it looked similar to a missile launcher he'd seen on television. "I got scared myself," he says. "It looked like a bazooka, and right away you think what does somebody want with something like that?" Jersey City Police removed the launcher, and the incident is now being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the FBI. Sources say Besai is not involved in the investigation as a suspect. "I don't think it was hers, they're nice people," Quinn said. Jersey City Police could not confirm whether the device was actually operable. http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_201113005.html
July 21, 200719 yr LMAO, this is such a damn joke. The "scary missile launcher" was actually an AT-4 rocket launcher, it's single use and once it has been fired all that's left is an empty fiberglass tube which is useless and cannot be reloaded or reused, it is common for those in the military to keep their empty AT-4 tubes that they fired during training and whatnot, it's no big deal at all, it's a useless piece of fiberglass and nothing more. As someone who has actually fired the AT-4 and is trained on that weapons system, the AT-4 is a piece of crap to be honest, the sights on it are horrible and you're lucky if you can hit a stationary mock tank at 100m, let alone an aircraft going several hundred MPH a few thousand feet in the sky, it is simply impossible to do with the AT-4. Impossible.
July 21, 200719 yr I was going to say, it didn't sound like something that would be able to take down an airplane.
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