This story is so weird. This was no ordinary fender-bender.
Early this morning a flatbed truck traveling south on I-95 carrying a tomahawk test missile (without warhead attached) lost its cargo. The truck stalled and as driver tried to make it onto the exit ramp, another truck rear-ended it causing the tomahawk to spill onto the road. The bomb squad was called in to ensure it was safe.
The
Channel 12 print report says this was a dummy but
video says it was a disarmed tomahawk test missile. Is "dummy" the same thing as a disarmed missile?
A tractor-trailer carrying military cargo collided with another tractor-trailer Friday on I-95 near the Hutchinson River Parkway exit causing traffic tie-ups during the morning commute.
Police say the accident caused a tomahawk missile to spill onto I-95. All southbound lanes on I-95 near the Hutchinson River Parkway exit were closed while emergency crews cleared the missile. Officials determined the missile was a dummy for training purposes and didn't contain any explosives, which meant it did not pose any danger.
The accident occurred near Co-op City in the Bronx. Police say no one was injured in the crash. Traffic had been diverted at exit 15 in New Rochelle to the New York State Thruway. Police officials say the missile was being transported on a privately owned truck from Rhode Island to a Virginia naval base.
New York Times
It was a replica of a Tomahawk cruise missile, identical in size and weight to the real thing, and it fell off a truck. The nearly 3,000-pound facsimile, used by the United States Navy for training exercises, was knocked onto a Bronx section of the New England Thruway when the flatbed truck that was transporting it broke down and was rear-ended by another truck, the police said.
The dummy missile was in a fiberglass case, adorned with military markings and words that included "Missile" and "Inert." The case cracked open as it fell to the ground.
An officer at the scene peered through the crack, saw the metal tube that looked like a Tomahawk missile, and took no chances. Detective Brian Hearn of the Bomb Squad received a phone call about 20 minutes after the accident. "This guy comes across and says: 'Look, I'm not kidding. I got a cruise missile sitting in the middle of I-95,' " Detective Hearn said.
The highway was shut down for hours. Radiation readings were taken; frantic phone calls to the Navy were made. A dozen firefighting units went to the scene, and so did the Police Department's Emergency Service Unit and Bomb Squad.
Question is -- there were no casualties, so why was the driver not able to tell them what he was carrying or show them paperwork so they could quickly confirm it with the navy and didn't have to go into a state of high alert? Or was it really a dummy?
So did we have to go no further than the Bronx to find them WMD things?