Commercial fisherman Solomon Rodney snared an 8-foot missile while fishing in the Gulf of Mexico last month. He tied the missile to the top of his boat and left it there for the remainder of his 14 day trip. There was one problem.
He brought the missile ashore Monday evening along with his 5,000 pounds of grouper. Rodney figured he'd keep the inert missile as a souvenir.
Only one problem: It was live.
After Rodney came ashore, emergency officials summoned a bomb squad from MacDill Air Force Base to a marina off the Tom Stuart Causeway where Rodney had docked.
"This is a live air-to-air missile," Pinellas sheriff's spokeswoman Marianne Pasha said Monday evening. "It is 8 feet long, and the MacDill team is dismantling it."
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Geekazoid.
Like the warhead it didn't have?
I wonder if he found a watch inside. Bet he found something ticking.