Afghan Cops Fishing With Rocket Launchers

[GrassrootsConservative]

The Result? Six children dead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23948086



Eight police (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23948086#) officers have been arrested in Afghanistan in connection with the deaths of six children in an explosion in the Doshi district of northern Baghlan province on Friday.

The interior ministry said the officers were suspected of firing rockets into a pond to catch fish, hitting a crowd of children nearby.
However, other reports said the children were killed by a mine.
At least two other children were wounded in the incident.

I laughed after hearing about the rocket fishing part. Sad that there were casualties though.

Thought I'd share.

[Singularity]

Entirely believable. Almost certainly, they were using some variation of the Soviet RPG model, fairly ubiquitous in that part of the world. I've read before that those things can occasionally misfire and fly completely off course, i.e. because the motor is unstable or one of the guidance fins is broken or bent.

[patrickt]

In Colorado, years ago, a stick of dynamite was called a Dupont Spinner.