Cold War missile found in Seattle suburb

[oldbrownhat]

Story here.

According to the Bellevue Police Department, which blogged about the incident, a Bellevue resident expressed interest in donating an item that belonged to his deceased neighbour.

"The man stated that his neighbour had originally purchased the item from an estate sale," said police, adding the missile — later determined to be inert — was found in the deceased resident's garage...

Bellevue police noted on social media that "we think it's gonna be a long, long time before we get another call like this again," adding a rocket emoji.

 

[Pisgah]

All right! Maybe they'll sell it to me, and I'll have a place to mount that warhead I found...

 

[lihpster]

All right! Maybe they'll sell it to me, and I'll have a place to mount that warhead I found...

Now you just need fuel for the missle, a plane to fire it from, and a pilot with big enough stones to shoot an air to air nuke.

 

[swsig]

I hate it when a neighbor goes ballistic.

 

[Rotorhead1026]

Now you just need fuel for the missle, a plane to fire it from, and a pilot with big enough stones to shoot an air to air nuke.

Hey, I'll bet that sucker'll run on diesel just fine.

 

[lihpster]

Hey, I'll bet that sucker'll run on diesel just fine.

Bio-diesel. Gotta be green when we nuke the atmosphere.

 

[Truckman]

I wonder how many tables it would take up at the gun show?...And does he take trades?......Ben

 

[Rudi]

Like this one?

 

[Onomea]

Major King Kong/Slim Pickens:

...Survival kit contents check. In them you will find one .45 caliber automatic, two boxes of ammunition, four days concentrated emergency rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleepin' pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature combination Rooshan' phrase book and Bible, $100 dollars in rubles, $100 dollars in gold, nine packs of chewin' gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockin's. Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff...

 

[Rudi]

Major King Kong/Slim Pickens:

...Survival kit contents check. In them you will find one .45 caliber automatic, two boxes of ammunition, four days concentrated emergency rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleepin' pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature combination Russian (pronounced 'Rooshan') phrase book and Bible, $100 dollars in rubles, $100 dollars in gold, nine packs of chewin' gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockin's. Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff...

OUTSTANDING. But if you look close, you can see his lips are making a "D" sound. The original line was "Dallas". This was just after JFK, so they had him re-voice it.

 

[444 Magnum]

Now you just need fuel for the missle, a plane to fire it from, and a pilot with big enough stones to shoot an air to air nuke.

Billy Bob Thornton may be able to provide some helpful information in this area.

 

[BC38]

WHOA!

My new bride and and I lived in Bellevue for the first 6 months after we were married in 1986 (before we bought our first house in Kirkland in 1987).

I coulda' been living right next door to this thing!

 

[oldbrownhat]

WHOA!

My new bride and and I lived in Bellevue for the first 6 months after we were married in 1986 (before we bought our first house in Kirkland in 1987).

I coulda' been living right next door to this thing!

Yeah, but apparently (to quote an infamous recent statement), "It's cold." (And a bit of Rust...)

 

[kmyers]

I would take it on Pawn Stars so Rick can give his spiel: It originally cost millions, but since it isn't working and can't be detonated nobody will want it and it will clutter the shop...best I can do is $100, now if it was live, active and could nuke something I would go as high as $500.

That or get it cleaned up and put a statue likeness of Slim Pickens complete with waving cowboy hat on it riding the thing.

 

[ladder13]

Refurb and send to Ukraine.

 

[soFlaNative]

Major King Kong/Slim Pickens:

Think anyone ever straddled that thing while trailering down the road screaming "Waaaaahhhooo"?