Would You Believe

Would You Believe is a reader (and Times Herald Staff) favorite, so here is an extended selection of Associated Press stories that will sometimes make you stare, think, question or freak out.


Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Rocket in Md. museum for 2 years was no dud; bomb technicians safely dispose of it

CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) — History could have come to life in very much the wrong way at a veterans’ museum where a rocket on display for two years was discovered Wednesday to be live.
After Allegany County authorities were notified that the Mark 1 rocket on display in Cumberland might be live, the state fire marshal’s office and the FBI confirmed it was. Bomb experts removed the ordnance and rendered it safe.
The 48-inch-by-2.75-inch rocket was similar to those used on helicopter gun ships during the Vietnam War, said Deputy State Fire Marshal Joseph Zurolo Jr. A local veteran donated it to the museum, which is in a chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Zurolo said.
Authorities are investigating how the man came to possess the live ordnance.

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