4 ms·
Gunfire is the threat that comes to mind? Weird.
by mhb 2y ago
Gunfire is the threat that comes to mind? Weird.
- bunderbunder 2y agoI can totally see someone taking a potshot at it just for a lark. Heck, I can see someone doing it for the purpose of creating content for their TikTok or YouTube channel. It's not like something like that has never happened before: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/santa-barbara-county-man-who-deliberately-crashed-airplane-youtube-video-admits https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/santa-barbara-county-ma...
- reaperman 2y agoMost of the large petrochemical tanks on the Gulf Coast have bullet dings in them. Folks just like to take potshots at stuff. Luckily the steel of these tanks are already more than thick enough to handle most small-arms fire. They just take the damage into account when they do corrosion monitoring every few years (those impact spots tend to be thinner afterwards, of course).
- SoftTalker 2y agoHave you been thru rural Ohio?
- ls65536 2y agoIt has happened before with other kinds of large cargo (the type that you really wouldn't want to have undesired holes in): https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=276419 https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=276419
- pjc50 2y agoI'd heard about this, and wondered how America squares it with its ridiculously large and expensive War on Terror.
- dghlsakjg 2y agoIt should be pretty clear after a two decades that it is a war on islam aligned unfriendly governments. The US largely doesn't take internal Christian terror seriously. And we certainly don't take rural whites acting recklessly with guns to be anything but the free expression of inalienable rights.
- vundercind 2y agoEver seen a stop sign in rural America? Quite a few folks like shooting stuff and have very poor judgement.
- dylan604 2y agoI've heard tales that Boeing's transporting of fuselages rarely made it to the destination without bullet holes.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]