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Looking For Submarine Along Highway?

Mike

Well-known member
Having solved all other terror threats, Homeland Security stays busy. :lol:

Obviously, the South is the only place where old times are not forgotten.

On Friday afternoon, a New York motorist called police with a tip about a potential terror threat. Seems someone was hauling a suspicious-looking object — it resembled a torpedo — on the highways around the city.

Before long 30 agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, were searching for this potential menace.

Even Coast Guard cutters in the area were on the lookout, since the thing looked sort of like a boat.

They should have set the terror color chart to Rebel Gray, because they were just hunting for a bunch of good ol’ boys from Summerville hauling a replica of the H.L. Hunley to Connecticut for the weekend.

“It’s pretty bad when four Confederates and a replica of the Hunley can cause all this,” says Mark Clark, general manager of the exhibit. “Maybe they were worried we were here to get them back.”

You know, this is the most trouble the Hunley has caused Yankees in nearly 150 years.

Educate, not destruct


The H.L. Hunley Traveling Exhibit has been cruising American highways for more than a decade.

In all that time, it hasn’t sunk any U.S. warships, although it did get a flat tire outside of Atlanta last year.

The sub model, built by John Dangerfield, is a life-size iron replica of the first successful combat submarine in history.

These days, the exhibit is its own charitable education organization, set up by the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ H.L. Hunley camp in Summerville. It travels from California to Connecticut, Mississippi to Tennessee, teaching folks about the Hunley and its attack on the USS Housatonic outside Charleston on Feb. 17, 1864.

Apparently, it’s missed a few folks in New York.

Because for a while Friday and Saturday, local, state and federal authorities spent an inordinate amount of time looking for the replica.

“I’ve heard a lot of things, a lot of strange stories related to this project over the years, but this is the best one,” says Kellen Correia, executive director of Friends of the Hunley.

Yeah, since the Hunley very briefly became a weapon of mass distraction.

No tolls


Investigators finally turned up a surveillance photo of the Hunley exhibit rolling through a toll booth.

That was the first clue something was not amiss. Terrorists don’t use toll booths.

Except maybe in “Blazing Saddles.”

New York police eventually called the Warren Lasch Conservation Center, home of the Hunley. They were able to direct authorities to Clark.

Clark says the police were extremely nice when they reached him by phone in Connecticut on Saturday. That’s probably because, by that time, they realized that a hand-cranked submarine bolted to a flat-bed trailer wasn’t much of a threat to the Big Apple.

In fact, the Hunley Traveling Exhibit was at a Civil War show at Mystic Seaport — where it was received warmly, by the way. No hard feelings among Connecticut Yankees.

Clark told New York police when the exhibit would be coming back through, gave them his license tag number. They didn’t offer an escort, but they didn’t try to set up another blockade, either.

On Monday, New York Police did not even remember the incident but said, “We get a lot of bizarre calls here.”

You think?

The upshot is the Hunley got a little publicity, and may have educated a few folks — which is the replica’s purpose.

Not to blow up New York.
 

Whitewing

Well-known member
True government leadership at work.

Get specific information from Russian intelligence about a potential terrorist living in the US (on welfare no less) and he gets a short interview and then a pass. Then he travels outside the US with no further notice from the gubmint. Why? Well, because they were busy spying on and harrassing tea bagger types.

Now, some good ole boys from the south with an evil looking machine driving down the highway and you get...FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, ATF, HNIC and 25 other agencies chasing their tails looking for the terrorists.

Only one thing comes to mind watching this group of DC-based assclowns these days.

KeystoneKops.jpg


Anyone wanna guess the identity of the young fatman on the right? :lol:
 

Mike

Well-known member
Point well taken and understood.

This has much more irony & comedy than the Borowitz BS frequently posted by others.

And this actually happens to be a true story. :lol: :lol:

Borowitz resorts to falsehoods. Like those that post him.
 

iwannabeacowboy

Well-known member
Shouldn't they have to put a orange nose on that thing? It is obvious we need to legislate that.

I hope these guys were suspended- their license. It's just teaching kids to drive around the country with loaded submarines. It's got to stop.
 
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