No One Wanted to Claim Rocket Launcher

Posted by Miss Cellania in Weapons & War on October 15, 2009 at 10:06 am


Jarrette Schule found a rocket launcher in his backyard in rural Comal County, Texas on Tuesday. Against all common sense, he took it in his house, then began calling authorities to report it. He called the FBI, the sheriff’s department, and Homeland Security.

“Everyone was handing it off to everybody else,” Schule said.

He was surprised at the amount of work it took to get the military to pick up its lost missile launcher.

Schule initially was nervous when he found the weapon. But as the hours passed, he did what most guys would do — marvel at the mind-blowing awesomeness of finding a missile launcher. He posted photos on Facebook and called his buddies, saying: “Guess what I found?”

Schule called the military police at Fort Sam. But their jurisdiction doesn’t extend off the post. Schule’s information was passed along to an Army criminal investigator, who visited Schule on Wednesday morning — about 19 hours after he started making phone calls.

Three hours later, an Army ordinance disposal team retrieved the weapon. There is still no word on how it got to Schule’s yard. Link -via Queuebot


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15 comments to "No One Wanted to Claim Rocket Launcher"

  1. Jefe
    October 15th, 2009 at 10:37 am

    When life hands you a rocket launcher, make rockets...?

  2. Neal
    October 15th, 2009 at 10:39 am

    From the very start I would have kept it and never called anyone.

  3. K!P
    October 15th, 2009 at 11:38 am

    LOL, and if you try to carry a can of orange juice on the plane they got you in seconds..

  4. Gauldar
    October 15th, 2009 at 12:43 pm

    Where is NCIS when you need them?

  5. l'elk!
    October 15th, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    could have posted it on craigslist and gotten rid of it in MINUTES

  6. mic jor
    October 15th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    Bruce Cockburn knows what to do with it.

  7. Colt Seaver
    October 15th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    That's neat how they made news out of a spent launcher tube, hazardous only if you drop it on your toe.

  8. PresidenToor
    October 15th, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    It probably fell out of a copter training mission.

  9. ted
    October 15th, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    I woulda just kept it.

  10. thomas
    October 16th, 2009 at 9:43 am

    Looks like a Javelin rocket tube.

  11. mostly cajun
    October 16th, 2009 at 10:38 am

    It's disposable. After the rocket has been fired, the only dangerous things you can do with it is beat somebody with it or scare bejeebus out of the ignorant.

    But it makes a GREAT new story...

  12. PJMurphy
    October 17th, 2009 at 10:37 am

    All he had to do was park near his closest airport and heave it up onto his shoulder. Someone would have been by quickly to take it away.

  13. Austin
    October 17th, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    Haha PJ, ya i'm sure someone would have. He would have also gotten a free room and meals everyday for the next couple of weeks at least.

  14. Staxeon
    October 19th, 2009 at 12:12 am

    Hahaha @ craigslist.

    Took them 19 hours to pick it up but I bet you if he DID try to sell it on craigslist it would have taken them half that to try to arrest him for something.

  15. alan smithee
    October 21st, 2009 at 10:53 am

    All he had to do was call the nearest airport and tell them he had a family-size tube of Crest and he was booking a flight.

    TSA would have been on his ass in a heartbeat.


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