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evenflow · Mar 14, 2008

Updated: Dummy bomb crashes into Tulsa apartment building
Jeremy Isbell

Jeremy Isbell used his cell phone to photograph the end of the rocket found in his apartments wall.

By STAFF REPORTS
Last Modified: 3/14/2008 11:22 AM

Federal authorities are investigating why a a dummy bomb traveling about 600 mph crashed into a building at a Tulsa apartment complex Thursday evening.

Jeremy Isbell, who lives at the Canyon Creek Apartments, 2102 E. 51st St., said he was told by a federal investigator that the bomb came from a military plane. It crashed into a building that houses electrical equipment and knocked out an apartment wall and power to the complex.

Investigators on Friday determined the bomb was a BDU-33, which weighs 25 pounds and is used during training, according to a military Web site.

A federal agent told Isbell that a military pilot thought the bomb, which had a "dummy warhead" on it, had been dropped over a Kansas field. The BDU-33 has a spotting charge that releases a cloud of smoke on impact, but the pilot never saw the smoke trail that would have indicated it did indeed drop.

Helberg said the Air National Guard was on a routine training mission and thought they'd lost the "inert military ordnance" somewhere over Kansas.

Isbell said Friday morning that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were at the site all night and that the warhead had been removed from the
scene.

A call placed to the Air National Guard base in Tulsa was not returned by early Friday. The military is expected to issue a press release on the incident Friday.

Isbell said the electricity was off when he and his wife arrived at their home on Thursday evening. After they went inside, his wife, Kyla Isbell, discovered that their bathroom wall had been knocked out.

Isbell said he went outside to tell AEP-PSO employees who were trying to find the cause of the outage that the damage to his home might have been caused by an electrical explosion.

The workers then looked at the damage and found the bomb -- half of which was buried in the concrete structure of the building that housed the complex's electrical equipment. The other part, which had fins on it, was twisted and broken off but probably measured at least 2 feet in length, he said.

The bomb had plunged through some trees before it hit the building, and firefighters were using ladders to climb into the trees, apparently to try to determine its trajectory, Isbell said.
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I don't know what strings garamet pulled with the Air National Guard, but good show old gal.

garamet · Mar 14, 2008

Why eliminate the guy who keeps my name on Wordforge's first page?

Edited: Although the use of a "dummy bomb" would be very appropriate...

Liet · Mar 14, 2008

Well, while a bomb that targets dummies would definitely be the right device to use in any attack on The Flashlight, a dummy bomb that consists of 25 pounds of inert metal traveling at terminal velocity wouldn't even dent the Flashlight's skull if it landed right on top of him.

Muad Dib · Mar 14, 2008

I read the title and thought somebody had killed a shit-eating dog.

Zombie · Mar 14, 2008

Bush reads PM from Garamet and orders strike:

garamet · Mar 14, 2008

^See, now, if Dubya had only listened to me five years ago...

The Flashlight · Mar 14, 2008

evenflow said: ↑

Updated: Dummy bomb crashes into Tulsa apartment building
Jeremy Isbell

Jeremy Isbell used his cell phone to photograph the end of the rocket found in his apartments wall.

By STAFF REPORTS
Last Modified: 3/14/2008 11:22 AM

Federal authorities are investigating why a a dummy bomb traveling about 600 mph crashed into a building at a Tulsa apartment complex Thursday evening.

Jeremy Isbell, who lives at the Canyon Creek Apartments, 2102 E. 51st St., said he was told by a federal investigator that the bomb came from a military plane. It crashed into a building that houses electrical equipment and knocked out an apartment wall and power to the complex.

Investigators on Friday determined the bomb was a BDU-33, which weighs 25 pounds and is used during training, according to a military Web site.

A federal agent told Isbell that a military pilot thought the bomb, which had a "dummy warhead" on it, had been dropped over a Kansas field. The BDU-33 has a spotting charge that releases a cloud of smoke on impact, but the pilot never saw the smoke trail that would have indicated it did indeed drop.

Helberg said the Air National Guard was on a routine training mission and thought they'd lost the "inert military ordnance" somewhere over Kansas.

Isbell said Friday morning that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were at the site all night and that the warhead had been removed from the
scene.

A call placed to the Air National Guard base in Tulsa was not returned by early Friday. The military is expected to issue a press release on the incident Friday.

Isbell said the electricity was off when he and his wife arrived at their home on Thursday evening. After they went inside, his wife, Kyla Isbell, discovered that their bathroom wall had been knocked out.

Isbell said he went outside to tell AEP-PSO employees who were trying to find the cause of the outage that the damage to his home might have been caused by an electrical explosion.

The workers then looked at the damage and found the bomb -- half of which was buried in the concrete structure of the building that housed the complex's electrical equipment. The other part, which had fins on it, was twisted and broken off but probably measured at least 2 feet in length, he said.

The bomb had plunged through some trees before it hit the building, and firefighters were using ladders to climb into the trees, apparently to try to determine its trajectory, Isbell said.
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I don't know what strings garamet pulled with the Air National Guard, but good show old gal.
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"But like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target..."

The Flashlight · Mar 15, 2008

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