Kid with empty AT-4 tube goes to jail

[ALLAN]

Kali is full of fuck. Do a little research next time.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/29172797/detail.html?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss

NOVATO, Calif. -- What started with a simple traffic stop Tuesday morning ended with a teen under arrest after officers spotted a rocket-propelled grenade launcher in the back seat of his SUV.

The big question that remained for police, the military, and many residents in Novato was how the teenager was able to get his hands on the destructive weapon.

Police said the bizarre incident began when the 15-year-old boy driving a blue Dodge Burango down Novato Boulevard was blasting loud music at around 9:40 a.m. Tuesday morning, which led officers to pull him over.

After the stop, officers saw the AT4 rocket propelled grenade or RPG launcher sitting unconcealed in the back of the vehicle. The single-shot, recoil-less weapon was developed in the early 1980s and is made in Sweden and the United States.

[roliath]

you can't reload these right? so whats' the big deal.

[Cannonball996]

he is 15 and driving a car, chances are he did not have a license and deserves to be arrested simply for that.

[Sgt Beavis]

you can't reload these right? so whats' the big deal.

You're right. It is a throw away item. Basically nothing more than a fiberglass tube.

[GhostTX]

Ya...but it's a "gun" and scary....and we just can't have that in California!

*edit*
Holy over-reacting!!

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Not taking any chances, police shut down the busy thoroughfare and evacuated nearby businesses including the main library.

"I think I'm glad we evacuated," said library branch manager Eva Patterson.

Patients at a nearby medical office building couldn't get to their appointments.

"I heard helicopters and sirens and I went outside and a police officer told me what was going on," said Dr. Jay Skelton. "I was very surprised."

Some locals were unnerved when they heard the news.

"That's a little scary," said area resident Jeff Lomason. "Very scary."

A UC Berkeley bomb squad robot was put into action. Police said the RPG was fully functional, but the grenade itself wasn't found.
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[noshine4mine]

My favorite part is how an inert AT-4 suddenly is a fully functional RPG...

The video they use to show how scary the AT-4 is, they fired the rockets, then threw the useless tube away, funny how that was overlooked.

Some patriots need to skip around berkley with inert AT-4's strapped to thier back.

[YALE]

Do they not know you can buy those at military surplus stores? What's next? Will someone get arrested for having one of those big wooden training rounds? Fuck!

[HarrisonTX]

Wait, where does it say its "empty" like you said in the title? I may have missed it, but it sounds like in article it was "live".

[roliath]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/09/13/rocket-propelled-grenade-device-found-in-novato-car-1-arrested/

even in this article it states, same as above. wtf..
"The single-shot, recoilless weapon was developed in the early 1980s and is made in Sweden and the United States."

@harrison, in another article it says they could not find the warhead just the tube.
here's the quote in the original article.
"A UC Berkeley bomb squad robot was put into action. Police said the RPG was fully functional, but the grenade itself wasn't found."

[HarrisonTX]

I see the video now. Well, If they're looking for a grenade, they wont find it. It shoots a fucking simple projectile with a war-head.. The video said "It was still functioned, but the grenade was never found" then its not functioning.

[matts5.0]

if the "grenade" was never found, then it never will be, being as it has prolly been fired already.. fucking tards.. i used to have one in my barracks room on pendleton, no one cared.

[matts5.0]

i used to have old tow missle tubes as well..

[stevo]

Idiots. Send someone to jail over the equivalent of an empty bullet casing.

Stevo

[Forever_frost]

I had a couple in my barracks

[Txstang1]

This country is soooo fucked.