US Jets accidentally bomb Britain

[loudnclear]

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/odd.jsp

What a safer world since Saddam was captured.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Oops

LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - The United States Air Force is investigating how one of its fighter jets dropped an unarmed bomb onto the countryside in northern England last week, a spokesman said on Monday.

There were no injuries and only "limited property damage" in the incident, which happened near the town of Market Weighton in Yorkshire at around 1715 GMT on Thursday, the air force spokesman said.

The 25 lb (11 kg) practice bomb was dropped by a F-15E Strike Eagle on a routine training run from a base in eastern England.

[BeHereNow]

2. NO WAY!

You are joking, right?

[BeHereNow]

4. Oh...My...God...

You are not joking.
and these people want to militarize space?
Not a good plan.

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. NORTHERN England? That is really screwy. France is south.

Oh well, the military is stretched.

[BeHereNow]

6. And the pilots

are hopped up on military issued speed.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Good grief.

Well, according to the way we operate, I think we should simply tell them to "get over it!"

What a stupid shame.

[rocktivity]

7. An "unarmed" bomb?

The United States Air Force is investigating how one of its fighter jets dropped an unarmed bomb onto the countryside in northern England last week, a spokesman said on Monday.

What's an unarmed bomb--no biological warhead? Terribly sorry about the corkup, mateys...


rocknation

[yellowcanine]

8. There were no injuries and only "limited property damage"

Well, thanks for small favors but I wonder who is defining what "limited property damage" is? "Well mate, it took out your living room and 2 bedrooms but the garage and the kitchen are still intact so would it be ok if we put in our report that there was limited property damage?"

[Endangered Specie]

9. guess they were aiming at france?

About 600 miles and one channel off.

[starroute]

10. That's about as out in the middle of nowhere as you can get

Some ancestors of my husband's came from the next town over (back in 1772), so I've looked at maps of the area a bit. It's really thinly populated -- just the sort of place the US military would get permission to do their test bombing runs. But it sounds like this time the test got a little out of hand.

The British have been slowly waking up to the fact that their country has in many respects become just a US military base. (I read a really scathing article on this a few months ago.) This may serve to wake them up a bit faster.

[havocmom]

16. Local villagers, perhaps a lot of anti-war sentiment there?

Anybody know if the locals in the area running cool to the poodle these days?

[PartyPooper]

11. I bet the Queen is not amused.

If this had happened a month or so ago...well, maybe she would have insisted Junior clean up this mess...along with the one he made at her Buckingham palace gardens during his state visit.

[yellowcanine]

17. If it had been close enough to frighten the Corgis

There would have been real hell to pay.

[ScrewyRabbit]

12. Proof that Americans suck at geography

[burrowowl]

13. Hell

They have accidently dropped dummy bombs on Monthans and Pecos Texas, near the PBS transmitter 30 miles from Roswell, etc. They do it aall the time. Nothing new.

[JaySherman]

14. "Bush Administration launches preemptive strike on Yorkshire"

Blair assumes strike on Yorkshire was hint from Bush, and proceeds to nuke Scotland.

[Nihil]

15. Note to Commander in Chief US forces

The War of the Roses finished a long time ago. No need to join in now.
Thanks anyway,

Lancaster