# F-16 strafes Jersey grade school. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139 "2004-11-05T05:08:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/1 "2004-11-05T05:08:53Z")
[Oops](http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041104/w1104107.html) Isn’t the Northeast Corridor a little congested for a gunnery range? ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/2 "2004-11-05T05:13:37Z")
So Calvin finally got his hands on a real jet, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/3 "2004-11-05T05:18:06Z")
F-16 PILOT: “And my 5th grade teacher, Ms. Felderfark, said I’d never amount to anything! I’ll show her! Bwahahaha!!!” Zoooooom!! RATATATATATATAT!!! ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/4 "2004-11-05T05:35:36Z")
Its obviously those damn Tyrannosaurus’s in their F-16s. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/5 "2004-11-05T05:50:37Z")
It’s the revised Republican program – No Child Left Behind Alive. Let’s face it, those Jersey kids are substandard. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/6 "2004-11-05T13:43:46Z")
“How can you shoot women and children?” “Easy. You Just don’t lead 'em as much!” ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/7 "2004-11-05T14:20:59Z")
You forgot the next line, **Hypno-Toad**. “…ain’t fifth grade hell?” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/8 "2004-11-05T14:35:14Z")
That’ll teach em to vote for Kerry. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/9 "2004-11-05T14:49:35Z")
Sort of makes those metal detectors in the hall look pointless, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/10 "2004-11-05T15:15:31Z")
I just realized that this is the first school to have a fly-by shooting. These gangs are gettin’ _tough_. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/11 "2004-11-05T15:46:39Z")
How did he manage just 25 rounds? > [@](#): > > The M61A1 Vulcan cannon is a six-barrel 20mm gun capable of firing 6,600 rounds per minute from [here](http://www.military.cz/usa/air/in_service/weapons/cannons/vulcan/cannon_vulcan_en.htm). Maybe only 25 rounds hit the school, the other 185 went into the hospital next door? ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/12 "2004-11-05T16:01:09Z")
> [@Boyo Jim](#): > > Isn’t the Northeast Corridor a little congested for a gunnery range? Well, they knew the range was there well before anybody else built there. I’d hate to see National Guard combatants go to war with insufficient training just because some community put a school in a bad spot. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/13 "2004-11-05T17:37:23Z")
The Warren Grove range is in a part of the state that just recently started to get suburbanized. Used to be the only thing you had a chance to hit was the Jersey Devil. The range is big enough that it shouldn’t be a problem to shoot there. I’m betting it was a malfunction rather than targeting the wrong thing. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/14 "2004-11-05T17:38:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Errant practice bombs were blamed for forest fires that burned about 4,500 hectares of the Pine Barrens near the range in 1999 and about 650 hectares in 2002. Son of a bitch! They bombed Carnivorous Plants! ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/15 "2004-11-05T18:09:52Z")
That article garnered significant interest at Casa Scarlett – Mr. S is a night janitor at a middle school. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/16 "2004-11-05T18:15:08Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > Well, they knew the range was there well before anybody else built there. I’d hate to see National Guard combatants go to war with insufficient training just because some community put a school in a bad spot. Bad spot? The school six kilometres from the target. \ Perhaps the NG should keep a troop of Canadian soldiers performing live fire exercises near the intented target to ensure that the NG pilots stay on course… \ ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/17 "2004-11-05T18:19:45Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > Bad spot? The school six kilometres from the target. I have no idea what these “kilometres” things you are speaking of are. I was merely suggesting that it would be better to keep clear of the ranges in the north-east corridor than to eliminate the ranges. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/18 "2004-11-05T19:28:07Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > I have no idea what these “kilometres” things you are speaking of are. I was merely suggesting that it would be better to keep clear of the ranges in the north-east corridor than to eliminate the ranges. 6 kilometres is about 3.75 miles, and this is how far they are from the range itself. Assuming that the target is embedded somewhere near the middle of the range it would be further still. I don’t disagree with you, I was just saying that the school wasn’t right next door to the target ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/19 "2004-11-05T19:36:26Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > I don’t disagree with you, I was just saying that the school wasn’t right next door to the target Yeah, I’m just so bored today that I had to write something and that’s all I could come up with. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139/20 "2004-11-05T19:48:34Z")
Little Eggs school? Ain’t that starting the education process a bit early? I mean, I could almost see Fetus Academy, but sheesh! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-16-strafes-jersey-grade-school/273139.md?page=2)