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Misfired artillery crashes into girl's bed

cnn.com — A piece of artillery that was apparently misfired by the military crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home miles away Friday and injured a young girl's cat, which had to be euthanized, officials said.

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  • prom, on 04/13/2008, -42/+10CAN YOU IMAGINE?!?! POOR GIRL LOST HER KITTY!!!! OMGAWDZ
    • dynelol, on 04/13/2008, -22/+4I hope you have a child and it ends up killed by a military misfire.
      • sarixe, on 04/13/2008, -2/+8you're gonna regret saying that one day... if not only for the reason that it was a bad joke
      • ClevelandBrown, on 04/13/2008, -0/+2Woah, woah, take it easy there buddy. goddamn, you must be very easy to manipulate. A genuine human-sheep
    • lololol1, on 04/13/2008, -1/+2nedm
    • Drwrong, on 04/13/2008, -0/+2your digg handle is 'prom'?
  • mymindisaprison, on 04/13/2008, -1/+40What a way to lose your pet! Sheesh.
  • mikeB, on 04/13/2008, -22/+1This was probably fired from the Army's R&D lab located near by.
    • noahhoward, on 04/13/2008, -1/+15Yeah... that's what the article says.
    • mhender, on 04/13/2008, -0/+2What were you expecting, Mike?
  • 3gibberish4q57, on 04/13/2008, -30/+11Well, the military needs to test these things to protect our nation.
    That cat has sacrificed its life at the altar of freedom!
    • dynelol, on 04/13/2008, -2/+10Good job on validating your username.
      • gwolf, on 04/13/2008, -3/+1I think he was jokeing.You know what a joke is right.
        • dynelol, on 04/13/2008, -0/+6You know the e should be dropped before adding the ing, right? You know that questions end in question marks, right?
          • nospinhere, on 04/13/2008, -0/+3Replies that pick on spelling/grammar mistakes scream to everybody that you capitulate.
          • Laughsatyou, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1dynelol, can you atleast incorporate some humor into your being a dick?
  • h0ms4r, on 04/13/2008, -12/+58i can haz artileries?

    poor kitteh :(
  • dkguy55, on 04/13/2008, -8/+127Soldiers throwing dogs off cliffs, artillery fire killing cats? Clearly the U.S. Military hates our pets.
    • atact88, on 04/13/2008, -4/+5OK, but who the hell builds homes 2.5 miles from an artillery range? And who the hell buys that home?
      Someone hates our people....
      • DarkMeld, on 04/13/2008, -0/+1Actually Picatinny Arsenel is surrounded by homes, including me....*****
    • jackalsclaw, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1i don't think you can really compair the 2...
  • serpentor, on 04/13/2008, -14/+57I hope that family hired a good lawyer. I would sue the g#ddamn military to kingdom come if they lethally endangered my family & killed my cat..
    • Heywoodj, on 04/13/2008, -1/+25Fairly affluent county in northern N.J. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a lawyer.
      They didn't have to hire anyone as they were lined up around his house 5 minutes after the thud.
      • cygnus2112, on 04/13/2008, -2/+23It's a shame the artillery took out the poor cat rather than the lawyers.
      • chillypacman, on 04/13/2008, -2/+4hahahaha, oh man, what a fantastic exchange. I didn't think you could top "You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a lawyer." but then comes "It's a shame the artillery took out the poor cat rather than the lawyers.".

        nice.
    • MetalLizard, on 04/13/2008, -9/+6I wish them good luck suing the United States military. They have guns you know, and stealth bombers.
      • jspania, on 04/13/2008, -2/+3and nunchucks
      • 471776, on 04/13/2008, -0/+16Oh yeah, I forgot that when you sue somebody, you have to beat them in a war before you can go to court.
    • millerm277, on 04/13/2008, -0/+12It was a fragment that hit the house...not explosives. The military will probably give them a few thousand dollars and go on it's way.
    • JointVenture, on 04/13/2008, -15/+2I thought liberal democrats were against lawsuits?
      • chillypacman, on 04/13/2008, -1/+10I thought people like you were serving in Iraq.
        • JointVenture, on 04/13/2008, -9/+3There you go again, proving what Ive said time after time, liberal democrats do not support our troops unless it suits their political agenda.

          People like me? You mean Rollins, and Brandeis educated who are 42 year's
          old and served in the Peace Corp when they were 24?
          Pro choice, pro NORML folks who don't believe in organized or institutionalized RELIGION?
        • rasinhussy, on 04/13/2008, -4/+2Saving your sorry ass, chillypacman!!
        • jaymzdean, on 04/13/2008, -1/+2rasinhussy...LOL. You're a 24 year old male who supports forcing our soldiers into invading and occupying a foreign territory, but you "choose to serve at home, under central air conditioning". Oh yea, I bet you're saving us all behind the scenes. People like you make me sick to my stomach - literally. You support this "war"? Then get out there and fight the good fight you ***** pussy.
          • rasinhussy, on 04/14/2008, -1/+1Your dead wrong... I don't have central air conditioning!! You don't know me at all!!!
      • jackalsclaw, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1lawsuits gave americans civil rights, and are one of the best ways to stop the goverment from taking them away.
    • bfdonnelly, on 04/13/2008, -1/+5The lawyer is irrelevant. The military enjoys sovereign immunity. Basically, the family is SOL.
      • jackalsclaw, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1No, the Federal Tort Claims Act waives the immunity if a tortious act of a federal employee causes damage in most cases. The whole field of tort law is complicated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort which is way a lawyer will be need and both side will probably settle out of court.
  • phenry, on 04/13/2008, -3/+103Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
  • sndream, on 04/13/2008, -14/+4Poor girl and her kitty.

    I think now will be a good time to conduct a IQ test for the all the grunt in the military.
    • noahhoward, on 04/13/2008, -1/+4You may just want to wait for details before jumping to conclusions about intelligence. This was froma research and development facility, chances are higher that it was a malfunction.
    • mal1964, on 04/13/2008, -0/+6I'm glad we don't need one for digg.
    • cygnus2112, on 04/13/2008, -0/+14"now will be" ... "a IQ" ... "for the all the grunt"

      I think now would be a good time to conduct an IQ test of some Digg users.
    • JointVenture, on 04/13/2008, -5/+5I thought the liberal democrats supported our troops. Thanks for proving my point in other threads that liberals only support our troops for political reasons.

      If we were not at war it would be the usual "***** Jar heads, or Redneck loser" comments.

      But what do we see? A bunch of hideous looking rug munchers wearing pink pretending like they really give a ***** about the troops.
      • StrikerF35, on 04/13/2008, -2/+3Have a cookie and some milk, Internet tough guy. It'll calm you down.
      • cygnus2112, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1Shhh... the overly liberal Digg crowd gets upset when you start pointing out reality.
  • powpowsamurai, on 04/13/2008, -5/+34lol....^^ most comments above had more focus on kitty...less focus on artillery fire gone awry........what has our society become
    • Culebras, on 04/13/2008, -2/+16maybe because kitten are much more adorable than artillery fire
    • sarixe, on 04/13/2008, -0/+9nobody cares if artillery is destroyed... it's the loss of a cat's life we're talking about here!
    • kije, on 04/13/2008, -1/+8We've become a society of pussies.
  • xeroblaze, on 04/13/2008, -3/+76I'm in ur bed, catchin ur flak
    • dynelol, on 04/13/2008, -24/+3Hey! Everybody! There's a party in xeroblaze's mouth and everyone is invited to cum.
    • condorhauck, on 04/13/2008, -3/+3Maybe in bad taste... but still funny.
  • kamau84, on 04/13/2008, -1/+7That's how you bring the war home!
    • EarlOfLade, on 04/13/2008, -0/+3I thought we were supposed to fight them over there so we didn't have to fight them over here...
  • Typhoon2009, on 04/13/2008, -8/+2lol.
    Wasn't there one incident a while back where a plane accidentally dropped a nuke on some town in like North Carolina? Obviously it didn't go off (wasn't armed) but it certainly fell.
    • palehorse864, on 04/13/2008, -0/+4It ditched on the beach and was covered up by sand and such I believe. It's still out there surprisingly. They could never find it.. Fortunately they never armed the bombs.
      • chillypacman, on 04/13/2008, -1/+2heh, they can't find WMDs in their own beaches but they think they can find WMDs in Iraq, go figure.
      • keraneuology, on 04/13/2008, -0/+1Actually, by some reports the weapon -was- armed. The specific details are classified, of course...
  • mal1964, on 04/13/2008, -4/+37Probably happens weekly in Iraq.
    • bassman12593, on 04/13/2008, -2/+21Weekly?!? I'd say hourly.
      • mal1964, on 04/13/2008, -9/+3I don't agree, why do you think that? Are you just being negative?
        • D14BL0, on 04/13/2008, -0/+5No, he's being truthful. Look at the death count out there.
          • mal1964, on 04/13/2008, -1/+2I just cant believe they're missing their targets "hourly" and hitting houses of families that often.
          • jaymzdean, on 04/13/2008, -0/+3Of course you can't, mal1964, and that's part of the problem. You operate within the boundaries of a belief system instead of the facts.
  • icndvl, on 04/13/2008, -3/+18Thats the unluckiest cat in the history of the universe.
    • cygnus2112, on 04/13/2008, -0/+10Still has 8 lives left.
    • jackalsclaw, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1it must have used up its first 8 lives before.
  • DCGaymer, on 04/13/2008, -12/+16Dogs 1...cats 0
    • chillypacman, on 04/13/2008, -0/+6I think the puppy incident makes this one all...
    • gh0st3000, on 04/13/2008, -0/+2Dogs control the military and are using their power to systematically wipe out all cats in the world!
      WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
      • lgfaphile, on 04/13/2008, -0/+2Obama and Hillary want to hold hearings on how the dogs got control of the military. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Dick Durbin say the dogs are behaving like Nazis.
  • pell, on 04/13/2008, -2/+29Reminds me a bit of Donnie Darko. Interesting story!
    • Bersy, on 04/13/2008, -0/+8First thing I thought of. Sequel maybe?
      • SourWorm, on 04/13/2008, -0/+4There was a sequel ... southland tales
        • sovietninja, on 04/13/2008, -1/+1I'm a PIMP and PIMPS don't commit suicide!
    • tyywebb, on 04/13/2008, -0/+2I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to find this.
    • Nosty, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1You can't make stuff like this up!

      Oh wait, yes you can!
  • anarchytv, on 04/13/2008, -14/+8" apparently misfired " - uh yeah. So if the guy down the street starts making exploding warheads, and experimenting with them, and accidentally lobs one through his neighbors room, he'd be given a lifetime imprisonment sentence. But when the military does the exact same thing, its ' apparently ' an accident. I call *****. What the f*** where they doing manufacturing and experimenting with explosive rounds in the first place, and lobbing them anywhere up into the air where they could hurt people. Shut down the military base. If it happened once, it will happen again.
    • Viti, on 04/13/2008, -0/+6Or at least build a dome over the base so it would just hit the roof. Sheesh. ...
    • millerm277, on 04/13/2008, -1/+13Umm, that wasn't a warhead, it was a fragment. (Small piece of metal, NOT anything explosive). Secondly, Picatinny arsenal (the base there), has been around for far longer than any of the nearby development. (I believe it's at least 100 years old). Also, as we all know...s*** happens, and that has been the only accident I've ever heard about happening there in modern times.
    • jackalsclaw, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1so if you make a mistake while doing something you should never do it again? maybe we should shut down Virgina tech forever cause it could happen again, I'm sure the thousands of students won't mind changing schools, and the same thing for the thousands of civilians employed at the Picatinny arsenal, they won't mind finding new jobs cause a industrial accident took place and killed a cat so the base has to be shut down.
      also i think they were "manufacturing and experimenting with explosive rounds" to use in combat, so when people shot at out troops they have something better then rocks to defend themselves .
  • claphands22, on 04/13/2008, -4/+5i think the military is getting closer on that missile defense program.


  • claphands22, on 04/13/2008, -11/+1I think the military is getting closer on that missile defense project.
  • neurologik, on 04/13/2008, -11/+5Some guy shootin blanks in a girl's bed, happens all the time around the world.
  • karolisonline, on 04/13/2008, -3/+10wtf? no really. things like that never happened even in soviet russia..
    • JointVenture, on 04/13/2008, -3/+2You are a moron to say that on the internets.

      Im not even going to waste my time typing in the little box in the upper right hand corner of my browser.
    • uncouthyouth, on 04/13/2008, -0/+6In Soviet Russia, cat bombs military!
    • chillypacman, on 04/13/2008, -0/+1At least not accidently...
  • karolisonline, on 04/13/2008, -2/+19and one more thing: "landed in the girl's bed, said Peter Rowland, arsenal spokesman. She wasn't home, but her cat was sleeping on the bed". so if she would have been at home that night, she would be dead now... this is so scary.
  • cygnus2112, on 04/13/2008, -1/+8Picatinny suspends outdoor weapons testing after shell hits home

    ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) _ The U.S. Army says it's suspending outdoor weapons testing at Picatinny Arsenal after a wayward artillery shell fragment crashed through the roof of a home miles away.

    Brig. Gen. William N. Phillips, Picatinny's commanding general, said in a statement Saturday that a team from the base will investigate what caused the mishap.

    Authorities say a 2-pound piece of artillery shot crashed through the roof of Cheryl Angle's Jefferson Township home around 2:30 p.m. Friday.

    The hot metal landed on the bed of Angle's 10-year-old daughter. The daughter luckily wasn't home, but the family's cat was injured and had to be euthanized.

    Phillips said in the statement that he visited the Angle home Friday night and apologized.

    Picatinny is the site of the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, whose mission is to conduct research, development and engineering for weapons systems.
    • gwolf, on 04/13/2008, -3/+1Sounds like a bit of exaggeration to me. most artillery, even the small stuff, would have done a lot more damage.
      • Enasni1212, on 04/13/2008, -0/+2What do you mean by exaggeration, exactly? The article states that it was a piece of a round, not a whole artillery round.
    • pendetim, on 04/13/2008, -0/+1
      Talk about yellow journalism and inflammatory wording.


      The Sunday Star Ledger had a more balanced account in the Local Section today

      Picatinny had a round out of the range and were conducting some tests. The shell was on the ground - NOT in a tube for firing- and was detonated by a small external charge. When the round detonated a 1 pound piece of the shell was projected off the range and hit the house a mile away. The spokesman for the base said that this test is something they do often and never have had a piece leave the range before. The most distance anything has traveled before is about 1/4 mile.
      The newspaper story also pointed out that the base has been in operation as a weapons development center for a very long time. Over time developers have kept pushing to develop homes closer and closer the the base perimeter.

      My comments: If you build or buy a house next to a place that blows things up for a living, you can expect that things could go wrong once in a while. Thank the Lord no human was killed, only a 15 yerar old cat. While I feel for the family, they chose to live there knowing what went on behind the tree line.

      This sounds like the base was testing some IED defenses for the forces in Iraq and the shell did not fragment as expected. I hope the results of the test made the survival of one of our soldiers assured..

      Tim
      • Laughsatyou, on 04/14/2008, -1/+1you will be dugg down because you arent attacking the military.
  • Ovalteen, on 04/13/2008, -0/+65BOOM BEDSHOT!
  • maxlightz, on 04/13/2008, -1/+3this would be a cooler story if it had pictures of the house ... or what's left of it
    • jackalsclaw, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1it was a 2 pound shell fragment. it hit the bed the cat was sleeping on (i'm guess that why the cat was there), the whole probablay is at most a foot across.
  • Deaconstructed, on 04/13/2008, -4/+10Poor cat... Poor girl... poor America...
  • pileofstraw, on 04/13/2008, -1/+4Total shame.
  • Hillsbottom, on 04/13/2008, -11/+3is this what they call coll-cat-eral damage?
    • sovietninja, on 04/13/2008, -1/+2Looks like someone has let the cat out of the bag.
  • tannim111, on 04/13/2008, -5/+0Well, someone's career is over, that's for sure.
    • mehan, on 04/13/2008, -2/+2we can only wish that were true.
    • emotecontrol, on 04/13/2008, -2/+1You're nuts if you think that anyone will suffer any kind of punishment for this, or that the military will pay any amount of compensation for the damage they caused. Hell, even if the kid had been in bed at the time, they'd still just stonewall the family in the name of "national security".
  • spikespikespike, on 04/13/2008, -2/+16dont ask dont tell was a wise policy, this just goes to show that the army hates pussy.
  • MrESaulved, on 04/13/2008, -0/+6Once the Navy Battleships start shelling Atlantic City, New Jersey will be the most exciting place on the east coast!
  • Funkster, on 04/13/2008, -3/+7Anyone else reminded of Donnie Darko?
  • Nyck, on 04/13/2008, -2/+35It's OK I've been hit by plenty of artillery strikes in Call of Duty 4. Fluffy just needs to wait 7 seconds for respawn.
    • LALDET, on 04/13/2008, -0/+2He's right, no big deal.
    • deepcoiler, on 04/13/2008, -0/+7I think Fluffy was playing Search and Destroy, no respawn :(
    • panzermeyer, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2Lagging piece of *****!
  • eroesle, on 04/13/2008, -2/+3i live one town over. weird.
    • dynelol, on 04/13/2008, -2/+7HOLY ***** IMAGINE THAT
      • Laughsatyou, on 04/14/2008, -2/+1HOLY ***** WHAT A AWESOME COMMENT! WHERE DO YOU COME UP WITH THIS MATERIAL!
  • IVAWGuy, on 04/13/2008, -2/+42 pound, 6 inch by 4 inch artillery round? hmmmm? What kind of artillery is that? 105mm and 83mm are a lot more than 2 pounds. Maybe a piece of an illumination round?
    • lilricky, on 04/13/2008, -1/+3The article and the description of the article both state it was a piece of an artillery round.
      • gwolf, on 04/13/2008, -1/+2Then they exaggerate quite a bit I would say.
        • Laughsatyou, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1like when they use the word "assault rifle" or "machinegun" to describe a semi automatic rifle.
    • IPatrickBateman, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1Your right....I was just thinking the same thing. 60mm Mortar round?
      • Ruger11mcrdpi, on 04/14/2008, -0/+0no way... the range is far to short. Plus, 60's don't penetrate roofs. We stopped using them mostly in Iraq for those two reasons. Most likely some type of new round they are testing at either a high velocity or extreme AOA, or both.
  • Ovalteen, on 04/13/2008, -0/+15That whistling noise you hear isn't the sound of the next volley, it's the sound of the entire neighbourhood's property values tanking.
  • lilricky, on 04/13/2008, -12/+9In other news, the Bush Administration has announced a major victory against feline al-Qaeda.
    • tonage, on 04/13/2008, -4/+2A Bush joke. How original. Never see those on Digg.
  • dilbert, on 04/13/2008, -3/+14Euthanized? What happened to good ol' "put down"?
    • HueytheFreeman, on 04/13/2008, -0/+3Portal. You don't "put down" companion cubes, after all.
  • Pciber, on 04/13/2008, -7/+1I think someone in that house was masturbating, and god had to kill the kitten. Don't blame the military, blame whoever was doing the dirty!
  • yankeeblue, on 04/13/2008, -0/+5::slaps forehead:: Seriously? This seriously happened? I guess even the military hates NJ.
  • mutt, on 04/13/2008, -1/+4I laughed when I read the "and injured a young girl's cat"
    Not because it isn't sad, but because of the lolcatz thread that's sure to ensue.
  • macwac, on 04/13/2008, -0/+1Isn't this the second time this year? didn't some guy have an artillery round fly through his kitchen or something? talk about crap military.
  • JerzyBricklayr, on 04/13/2008, -0/+7Was I the only one looking for TheOnion.com as the source?
  • ShempRider, on 04/13/2008, -0/+44"x6" isn't very big for "artillery". occassionally my unit used to fire 155mm howitzers in NJ at Ft. Dix. Accidents do happen, but they're usually restricted to the range/base...I saw a an HE round prematurely detonate.

    Then there's the story of a NJ Nat'l Guard unit that sent an HE round into some guy's house.

    People came home and what was left of their house was surrounded by ALL sorts of military/police.
  • Kevin108, on 04/13/2008, -6/+3Thank you federal government and local municipalities for allowing encroachment to threaten our safety in our own homes. As someone who lives just a couples miles from several major military installations in Norfolk and not far at all from Virginia Beach, stories like this hit home for me. And scare me a lot.
    • dynelol, on 04/13/2008, -1/+3Save up and move.
    • tonage, on 04/13/2008, -1/+3You should be scared. I mean, this is the leading cause of injuries around military bases you know. I mean, it happens daily. Thousands are victims on a daily basis. That mean ol military.

      If this scares you, you must be afraid to walk out the door.
    • Kevin108, on 04/13/2008, -1/+1Why are you two running to the support of the government? If the US wasn't trying to police the world, we wouldn't have so many military installations or associated exercises.
      • jpop, on 04/13/2008, -1/+1That actually brings up a good philisophical question. If the US wasn't expected to police the world, would we have as large a military as we do now? Would there be a bunch of countries with large militaries trying to take over the world if the US didn't stop them? If there were, we'd have just as large a military to protect ourselves...
    • Laughsatyou, on 04/14/2008, -1/+1that range was there long before any houses. maybe if you werent a moron you would realize the potential for disaster. learn some personal responsibility and quit being a pussy that needs big brother to coddle them.
      • Kevin108, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1If you read my original post and used an ounce of comprehension, you would have understood that I blame the government at the federal and local level for letting houses be built that close to the military installation. And by the way, name calling makes you sound so much smarter! I'm glad you chose to include that in your post.
      • tonage, on 04/19/2008, -1/+1The problem with people like you is you just look for any reason to spout your military hatred around. A misfired missile hits a house and you think it is a free ticket for military bashing. You are against the war, you are against a powerful military. Whatever. There are plenty of stories on Digg perfectly crafted for you to spout your paranoia and hatred for the forces that keep you free.
        • Kevin108, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1I don't hate the military. I hate the gross misuse of our military.
  • fpaudon, on 04/13/2008, -4/+10Is it wrong that I find this hilarious?
    yes, go ahead and bury this.
  • usgovterrorists, on 04/13/2008, -7/+2I hope it wasn't a depleted uranium round, like the military was firing in Hawii, and the military denied it(follow the cancer trail). Too bad depleted uranium has 4.5 billion year half life.

    United States Government are terrorists, war criminals, and horrific liars.

    9-11 was an inside job! 9-11 was a lie! What happened to building 7?

    Depleted uranium is a weapon of mass destruction!

    Play Wall Street like a PONZI SCHEME!
    • 0biKwiet, on 04/13/2008, -1/+2Higher half life is better, because it means that it's barely radioactive at all. Bismuth has a half live that is several billion times the age of the universe. That's because it looses an alpha particle every couple of minutes. I.E. not at all radioactive.

      So how about you stop making retarded claims about things you don't understand, mkay?
    • pilobilus, on 04/13/2008, -0/+1Not posting the same lines over and over, all over the place, would help you not get dugg down. Just sayin.
    • Laughsatyou, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1tin foil hats are silly
  • crazyeyezkilla, on 04/13/2008, -1/+3why is the front page of digg filled with yesterday's cnn articles?
  • IrishNana, on 04/13/2008, -3/+4Still can't find Osama Bin Ladin but they target the kid's cat???? Aim is just a tad off!! ( P.S. R.I.P. kitty)
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