Under command of General Chaos?
The hunt for weapons of Math Instruction… GOES ON!
“Take THAT Sister Mary. Take THAT Sister Catherine.”
Well done, guys. Personally, I’m still trying to wrap my head around a school 3-1/2 miles from a firing range. :eek:
I suspect he accidentally pulled the trigger while over the firing range. He probably didn’t have his nose pointed down and the rounds traveled until they ran out of energy.
That’ll learn 'em little bastards not to pray in school.
Wasn’t this a “Calvin & Hobbes” Sunday strip?
Here’s the report filed by the F-16 pilot.
(unidentified TSG in the background, quietly:)“Um, sir, that would be the trigger.”
And it’s not that extraordinary that the school is “3.5 miles from the range” – that probably means it’s 3.5 miles from the perimeter fence, not from the designated impact zone.
But yeah, Blacklaw is probably close to it: the pilot pulls the trigger prematurely/belatedly when not yet/no longer lined up right, and over the distances/speeds involved, a not-so-huge initial miss angle magnifies the displacement on the ground of where the rounds finally impact.
(This shit happens – Back in '99 at our Vieques range a Marine F/A-18 dropped 2 500-pounders a mile and a half short and soundly defeated the range observation post. Sadly, one civilian employee bought it, and it all ended up with the base being shut down 4 years later.)
Actually, what surprises me is that that this guy only managed to put 25 rounds into the school. Considering that he was firing a M61-A1 Vulcan.
If the guy had been a better shot, he should have leveled the place. Or ate least put a few more holes in it.
Well, you know how you can shoot women and children, don’t you?
Don’t lead 'em as much.
More hilarity from ‘Explanation Central’
The Guard Commander, while saying ‘We will get to the bottom of this’, tried to explain away the danger. The rounds were dummy rounds, made of a lighter metal than live rounds, were smaller and thinner, and did not contain explosives in the tips.
Cool…nothing to worry about here…move along…
Wasn’t ‘W’ in the National guard? and a pilot to boot?
heh.
- Ahem -
Maybe they were trying to practice using a live target?
That’s sick!!!
:eek:
It’s mildly funny, too.