# Anyone lose a pair of guided missiles? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050 "2016-04-12T23:43:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/1 "2016-04-12T23:43:38Z")
[2 Guided Missiles Containers Found Bobbing in the Pacific](http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/guided-missiles-containers-found-bobbing-pacific-38344347) > [@](#): > > Two large shipping containers, each stamped with the words “Contains: Guided Missile,” were discovered bobbing in the Pacific Ocean near the southeast Alaska island community of Craig. Both are empty so authorities are still tracking the history. Probably just a couple of empty containers blown out to sea, OTOH, we’ll just have to see if this is the start of the polar bear uprising. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/2 "2016-04-12T23:47:43Z")
I suspect Lex Luthor. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/3 "2016-04-12T23:59:37Z")
Hold on, those might be mine. ETA: Nope, mine are still out in the shed. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/4 "2016-04-13T01:30:45Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > OTOH, we’ll just have to see if this is the start of the **polar bear** uprising. > [@Tri ► Polar ◄](#): > > Hold on, those might be mine. > > ETA: > > Nope, mine are still out in the shed. Stop & Frisk the walruses then? ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/5 "2016-04-13T01:52:53Z")
I think its the seals m’self. Woe be unto you who wants a fur harvest this year ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/6 "2016-04-13T15:26:47Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Stop & Frisk the walruses then? Sure. The BROWN walruses, but the polar bears get to go on about their business. :mad: I bet those bears are building up their armory right now. Just waiting, thinking “two more years of global warming then OPERATION ICEE DAWN begins!” ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/7 "2016-04-13T17:15:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Two large shipping containers, each stamped with the words “Contains: Guided Missile,” That seems oddly non-specific. What if you ordered a long-range all-weather low-radar-cross-section supersonic nuclear-capable surface-to-surface cruise missile, and the seller fobbed off some cheap-ass shoulder-launched short-range anti-aircraft missile on you instead? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/8 "2016-04-13T17:18:56Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > That seems oddly non-specific. What if you ordered a long-range all-weather low-radar-cross-section supersonic nuclear-capable surface-to-surface cruise missile, and the seller fobbed off some cheap-ass shoulder-launched short-range anti-aircraft missile on you instead? Wouldn’t the ‘all weather’ part just be assumed? I mean would anyone ever be like ‘hold on guys, my phone says it’s supposed to rain soon’. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/9 "2016-04-13T17:24:01Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Wouldn’t the ‘all weather’ part just be assumed? I mean would anyone ever be like ‘hold on guys, my phone says it’s supposed to rain soon’. If I recall correctly Hellfire’s are laser-guided. So they’re definitely not all weather. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/10 "2016-04-13T17:29:06Z")
At this point, aren’t they 'mis’guided missles? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/11 "2016-04-13T17:30:09Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Wouldn’t the ‘all weather’ part just be assumed? I mean would anyone ever be like ‘hold on guys, my phone says it’s supposed to rain soon’. The sad reality is that with some of these sleazy guided-missile sellers on eBay, you really have to specify _everything_. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/12 "2016-04-13T17:43:55Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > That seems oddly non-specific. What if you ordered a long-range all-weather low-radar-cross-section supersonic nuclear-capable surface-to-surface cruise missile, and the seller fobbed off some cheap-ass shoulder-launched short-range anti-aircraft missile on you instead? The seller would need to run more quickly than a short range anti aircraft missile. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-lose-a-pair-of-guided-missiles/752050/13 "2016-04-13T20:19:19Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > At this point, aren’t they 'mis’guided missles? Damned Apple maps based GPS.