CBS: Oops! F-16 Jet Strafes N.J. School

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/04/national/main653804.shtml

(AP) The target was an object on the ground well within the confines of the Warren Grove firing range, a 2,400-acre scrub pine expanse used by the military to train pilots in bombing and strafing techniques.

But when the heavy gun in the left wing of an Air National Guard F-16 fighter jet fired Wednesday night, it sent 25 rounds of 20mm ammunition smashing through the roof and zinging off the asphalt parking lot of the Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School 3½ miles from the range.

Military investigators are trying to determine how it could have happened.

A custodian was the only person in the school when the shots hit at 11 p.m., and no one was injured.

[TrogL]

1. So much for Dubya's support for education

[PunkinPi]

4. his new initiative "leave no school standing".

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. If this occured during Clinton's Administration...

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

3. I thinbk it is actually Clinton's Fault!

[donsu]

5. I suppose the parents said 'oh golly, gee, it was an accident' and sent

their kids to school again.


here in the Keys there is an elementary school literally snuggled up to a hugh trash mountain and incinerator. how insane is that?

[Snellius]

6. Fallujah's the other way.

They must have flown a little off course.

[aden_nak]

7. Investigating my ass. Something happened there.

What were "we" (and I use that collective term loosely) shooting at in a school parking lot with an F-16 fighter? Seriously. That's absolutely nothing like an accident. An accident is when an F-16 accidentally buzzes through a commercial flight channel. When 20mm rounds are fired at a school in the night, they are fired at something.

[Moderator]

8. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=958424