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To clarify, DO NOT shoot weapons @ #Irma. (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Sep 2017
OP
There are several joke groups in Favebook that talk about meeting the hurricane in different ways.
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2017
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ProfessorGAC
(65,066 posts)1. Stress & Boredom?
I think he forgot "stupid"
Throck
(2,520 posts)2. WC Fields would be proud.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)3. Some nut got on TV because he was bored.........
and yeah, the RWNJ's will play like that.
It's kind of like when the Aurora are really rocking, and the idiot down the street just HAS to try to shoot it...........
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,356 posts)4. There are several joke groups in Favebook that talk about meeting the hurricane in different ways.
Someone saw the "shoot at Irma" one, and took it seriously and wrote a newspaper article about it.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)5. There is a local radio host that joked about pointing leaf blowers
at the storm. I doubt anyone took him seriously either. But some gun owners are irresponsible idiots. It wouldn't surprise me if some people hear the idea and shoot towards it as a joke.