Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming 265
Harmonious Botch wrote in with a CNN story that opens: "A spent Russian booster rocket re-entered the atmosphere Thursday over Colorado and Wyoming, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said.
NORAD spokesman Sean Kelly said the agency was trying to confirm a report that a piece of the rocket may have hit the ground near Riverton, Wyoming, at about 6 a.m.
Kelly said military personnel had not yet reached the scene.
No damage was reported and the debris was not believed to be hazardous, NORAD said.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing flaming objects in the sky at the time the rocket was re-entering, Kelly said."
In Soviet Russia... (Score:5, Funny)
hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Are they sure it wasn't just a weather balloon, or maybe some swamp gas?
How is it misleading? (Score:5, Funny)
"Russian": The rocket is Russian. Nothing misleading here.
"Rocket": The object in question is indeed the remains of a rocket. Nothing misleading here.
"Hits": The rocket did indeed crash into the ground in Wyoming. It "hit" Wyoming, if you will. Nothing misleading here.
"Wyoming": The location of the rocket crash was Wyoming. Nothing misleading here.
I'm not sure how you justify your claim of the title being misleading. Every word in the sentence is correct and factual. The sentence as a whole is also completely correct.
Dupe! (Score:5, Funny)
Poor Aim (Score:5, Funny)
In other news Wyoming high schoolers unite.. (Score:5, Funny)
"...No damage was reported..." (Score:5, Funny)
Well, duh! It's Wyoming, fer christsake.
Home on the Range (Score:5, Funny)
Where the buffalo roam
And the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard
a discouraging word
and the skies are not full of spent Russian booster rockets
Re:Most misleading headline ever? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sensationalist title or what!? (Score:5, Funny)
Just remember, everyone... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How is it misleading? (Score:5, Funny)
Speak for yourself there, buddy. I'm proud of my family traditions.
Re:hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
red dawn (Score:3, Funny)
Dead Like Me (Score:4, Funny)
(For reference, her character (George) was killed by a piece of debris from the de-orbiting of Mir)...
A better subject line... (Score:4, Funny)
Extremely slow Soviet ICBM hits US one month after launch and over ten years after breakup of the Soviet Union.
Film at 11
Re:How is it misleading? (Score:5, Funny)
What if the arrow "lands in" your eye, for example?
It's probably justified to be concerned for the state of an apple that an arrow lands in. Changing the victim to a forest is misleading.
Of course the differing connotations of the two terms make it all a big mess anyway. Landing in terms of missiles gives a different impression than it would with a bullet or a loosed arrow.
Re:More info (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Video showed on Fox News earlier (Score:4, Funny)
She was walking all alone
Down the street in the alley
Her name was sally
She never saw it
When she was hit by space junk
In new york miami beach
Heavy metal fell in cuba
Angola saudi arabia
On xmas eve said norad
A soviet sputnik hit africa
India venezuela (in texas
Kansas)
Its falling fast peru too
It keeps coming
And now Im mad about space junk
Im all burned out about space junk
Oooh walk & talk about space junk
It smashed my babys head
And now my sallys dead
Re:Video from Denver news station (Score:4, Funny)
Putin called a news conference (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"...No damage was reported..." (Score:5, Funny)
missle defense system? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Poor Aim (Score:3, Funny)
Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming (Score:3, Funny)
How did they know?
Dick Cheney's from Wyoming... (Score:2, Funny)
Good luck finding it now... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How is it misleading? (Score:4, Funny)
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
The Old Adage... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:How is it misleading? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How is it misleading? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm. Let me go check Fox News.
Holmwood.
Let's see if anybody gets this one (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Whereas the yanks dropped the whole lot on us (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, who cares about a bunch of convicts.