Navy accidentally bombs Ocala National Forest


	Navy accidentally bombs Ocala National Forest

masbury

5-15-2008 4:01 PM

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masbury says:

Even America's not safe from America. Burns down 250 acres.

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5-15-2008 6:11 PM

kkcapricorn

I don't think it ever was; we just didn't know it.

5-17-2008 3:35 PM

righthand

accident?

5-17-2008 10:28 PM

masbury

Who knows? Maybe they mistook a water-ski boat for a threatening Iranian gunship. At any rate, we can sleep in peace knowing the security threat in those 250 acres has been eliminated. Unless he got away.

5-18-2008 7:49 PM

blueridge

Is that what started the fires in Fla?

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