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Florida fisherman nets live guided missile
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Florida fisherman nets live guided missile AFP/File – A fisherman watches his lines in Florida in 2007. Instead of what he thought was a very large fish, a …
Tue Jun 9, 3:41 pm ET
MIAMI, Florida (AFP) – He thought he'd netted a big one, but after reeling it in police said Tuesday a Florida fisherman found he really did have a live catch on his hands -- a very unstable air-to-air guided missile.
Commercial fisherman Rodney Salomon never panicked, and kept long-line fishing aboard his "Bold Venture" boat in the Gulf of Mexico for another 10 days before returning to port.
"I had it strapped to the roof of my boat as we rode through lightning storms," Salomon said, according to local Tampa Bay's 10 Connects News.
The bomb squad from a nearby military base that promptly dismantled it upon his return to shore said the heavily corroded eight-foot-long missile could have exploded at any moment.
"I wasn't scared," said 37-year-old Salomon, according to local media reports. "Why should I be scared?"
Salomon, from Saint Petersburg, Florida, was 50 miles (80 kilometers) out in the Gulf from Panama City when he caught the military ordnance, said the Pinellas County sheriff's office.
The experts said the missile was corroded by its apparent extended stay in saltwater. According to the bomb team "it was live and in a very unstable state," police said.
Salomon asked the bomb squad if he could keep the missile as a souvenir after it was made safe, but the request was denied.
He said it wasn't the first one he and his three-man "Bold Venture" crew picked up. Days after the find, Saloman nabbed another.
That one was beeping so he decided to let it go.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090609/ts_afp/usmilitaryfishingoffbeat_20090609194352
Florida fisherman nets live guided missile
AFP
Florida fisherman nets live guided missile AFP/File – A fisherman watches his lines in Florida in 2007. Instead of what he thought was a very large fish, a …
Tue Jun 9, 3:41 pm ET
MIAMI, Florida (AFP) – He thought he'd netted a big one, but after reeling it in police said Tuesday a Florida fisherman found he really did have a live catch on his hands -- a very unstable air-to-air guided missile.
Commercial fisherman Rodney Salomon never panicked, and kept long-line fishing aboard his "Bold Venture" boat in the Gulf of Mexico for another 10 days before returning to port.
"I had it strapped to the roof of my boat as we rode through lightning storms," Salomon said, according to local Tampa Bay's 10 Connects News.
The bomb squad from a nearby military base that promptly dismantled it upon his return to shore said the heavily corroded eight-foot-long missile could have exploded at any moment.
"I wasn't scared," said 37-year-old Salomon, according to local media reports. "Why should I be scared?"
Salomon, from Saint Petersburg, Florida, was 50 miles (80 kilometers) out in the Gulf from Panama City when he caught the military ordnance, said the Pinellas County sheriff's office.
The experts said the missile was corroded by its apparent extended stay in saltwater. According to the bomb team "it was live and in a very unstable state," police said.
Salomon asked the bomb squad if he could keep the missile as a souvenir after it was made safe, but the request was denied.
He said it wasn't the first one he and his three-man "Bold Venture" crew picked up. Days after the find, Saloman nabbed another.
That one was beeping so he decided to let it go.
