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Roadworkers find Loaded Rocketlauncher on HWY

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http://www.news1130.com/news/nationa...island-highway

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Loaded rocket launcher found in bushes beside Vancouver Island highway
The Canadian Press Oct 29, 2010 20:16:50 PM
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VICTORIA - Military and police officials are investigating after a tree-clearing crew cutting down the brush along a Vancouver Island highway unearthed a loaded rocket launcher.

Steve Taylor, of Capital Tree Service, said he spotted something odd in the woods along the Malahat highway near Shawnigan Lake, B.C.

"I was up in my bucket limbing some trees and I looked down and I could see, well, the rocket launcher but I didn't know at that point what it was. The colour of it and the shape of it caught my eye. I thought, what a weird looking object," Taylor said Friday, the day after the strange find.

He climbed up on the bank where he'd seen it to cut some stumps and noticed writing on the object he'd spotted from on high.

"I kind of cleared it off. There was some moss on it and some underbrush around it," said Taylor, 33. "I cleared it away and that's when I read the writing. It said: To fire, aim, pull pin and press trigger.

"Right then, just by looking at it I kind of had a pretty good idea what it was."

The crew called BC Hydro, which had hired them to clear the trees, and BC Hydro contacted police. As they waited for officers to arrive, the men took a few fun photos posing with the weapon — completely unaware that it had a live round in the tube.

Taylor said they didn't realize the danger.

"I was dropping big rounds of wood right near it, right beside it. One of the trees I cut down was probably no more than about two or three feet away from it."

One of the officers to respond to the call was a Canadian Forces veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan and immediately recognized the M72 self-propelled rocket launcher.

Bomb disposal experts from the military base in Esquimalt were called to safely remove the rocket launcher and Taylor said police dogs were then brought in to search the area for any more weapons or ordnance.

RCMP did not return calls seeking comment.

"It is not known how this rocket launcher came to be at this location," the force said in a statement posted to their website.

"It was located approximately seven metres off the highway in a densely treed area. It appeared as though the rocket launcher had been there for at least six months or longer."

Police said there was no indication who might have owned the heavy duty firepower or why the weapon was left in the bush just metres from the busy highway.

Lt.-Cmdr. Nathalie Garcia, spokeswoman for Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, said the rocket launcher is now in the hands of the military.

"We have similar launchers in our inventory," she said, referring to the Canadian Forces, not necessarily the navy. "Whether that specific one was a Canadian one, that's all part of the investigation."

The M72 is an anti-tank weapon, according to the website Modern Firearms & Ammunition. The site describes it as a "shoulder fired, disposable rocket launcher" of a type that has been in production since 1961.

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ahhhhh there's where i left it

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Originally Posted by raygunpk (Post 7165493)

ahhhhh there's where i left it

do you have proof of ownership?

Bobby got it in his container, overnight parts from Japan, like a couple years ago. How did you end up with this item? we were running up on trucks back in the summer of 2001 with our tuned civics.

cool find. the laucher is perfectly legal, just not the rounds. climber should demand the lancher back and hang it on his wall.

Are you serious the launcher is legal? Just not the ammunition for it? Thats messed up!

it's just a metal pipe.

i definitely would not have told anyone after i saw it and went back later at night to pick it up

It'd make a cool potato canon

that things preety sweet

would have made a sweet Halloween costume!

M72 LAW

"The most common M72A2 LAWs came prepacked with a rocket containing a 66 mm HEAT warhead" rated to penetrate 8 inches steel plate, or 2 feet reinforced concrete wall.

that would have made a killer halloween firecracker i mean firework

the only parts of the costume you're missing now is the raggity robes, a turban, and some c4 wrapped around your chest.

^ he's going to have one hell of a facebook picture :troll:

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Originally Posted by b0unce. [?] (Post 7166040)

the only parts of the costume you're missing now is the raggity robes, a turban, and some c4 wrapped around your chest.

Don't forget the red button

Damn shit woulda blown up if I found it
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That's retarted, similar to wen the random dude found a loaded silenced mack 10 in fraser river
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Planted for some sleeper cell agent to use in the future

Imagine if one of the workers accidentally fires it... one hell of a story for sure.

Where can I legally fire one?

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Originally Posted by taylor192 (Post 7166535)

Where can I legally fire one?

Surrey

ohh man if i found that i would have gathered my buddies and go to a completely remote area where its all gravel, (no trees or grass for fire safety) build a target like a pile of stones or whatever, blast that thing to pieces and post it on rs later on

profit.

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Originally Posted by raygunpk (Post 7165493)

ahhhhh there's where i left it

go claim it. they are waiting for you