Reply #8: Yep, rocket fuel and nuclear materials too [View All]

[havocmom]

And sometimes, they don't plan the route well. Years ago when BIG ones were being decommissioned and removed from silos, a flatbed truck carrying one of those huge mothers (the sort designed to hit places across oceans ;) ) got stuck under a bridge on freeway in Phoenix...

Quite the traffic jam. Freeway runs below street level through there. Folks were trapped in a concrete canyon until some clever chap suggested letting the air out of the flatbed's tires which gave enough wiggle room to get the DOD rocket out from under the busy urban bridge.

Am hoping that thing was unarmed and had the fuel removed before the got it stuck under a bridge in a large population center.

Then again, I never liked Phoenix much, and my mother-in-law lived there at the time...
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