What Homeland Security.????..

[SoCalDem]

This wacky little incident happend ON THE BASE...

Reservists and Guardsmen fly in and out of this place all the time.. They have basically closed off all the entrances except for one, and they pratically strip search you to get in:eyes:

http://www.pe.com/localnews/morenovalley/stories/PE_NEWS_nmmuse17.edf9.html
Two World War II grenades stolen from March Field Air Museum
01:08 AM PDT on Wednesday, September 17, 2003

The Press-Enterprise


Two inert World War II grenades, which are illegal for the public to possess, were stolen Monday from a March Field Air Museum display case in a weird caper the staff unraveled only Tuesday afternoon.

Museum Director Bob Miller said two men about 18 to 20 years old were caught Monday joy-riding around the vintage planes in one of the museum's golf carts, which are used for maintenance on the 50-plus-acre site.

When a volunteer realized that the men still had the cart's key, he tracked them down inside the display hangar. Miller said one of the men pulled the key out of his pants pocket, along with an opium pipe that fell to the floor.

The volunteer kept the pipe in his tool box and remembered the incident when staff members Tuesday discovered that the back of a display case had been pried open and the grenades stolen, Miller said. The opium pipe was also part of the World War II display. The two grenades have been disarmed, he said, but they can be rearmed with explosives, which is a felony. Moreno Valley police were still investigating the theft Tuesday afternoon.

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09/16/2003

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and then there is THIS.. This is right next to the damned base..


http://www.pe.com/localnews/morenovalley/stories/PE_NEWS_nmdead17.a1744.html

Body found inside truck
PROBE: Officers indicate they suspect foul play in the Perris man's death. Relatives identified him.

02:32 AM PDT on Wednesday, September 17, 2003

By DOUGLAS QUAN / The Press-Enterprise


PERRIS - Homicide investigators spent hours Tuesday along a dirt road near March Joint Air Reserve Base after finding a man's body in his pickup, authorities said.

At about 8:20 a.m., police were called to Indian Avenue near Nance Street, where they found the dead man in the cab of a burgundy Dodge pickup, Riverside County sheriff's spokesman Deputy Dennis Gutierrez said. The truck was parked off the road under a tall pepper tree across the street from a concrete manufacturer.

Police would not say how the man died, but said he had met with foul play.

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Francisco Delariva said he and his slain brother worked at PW Pipe in Perris. He said his brother was an operator in the production department and had worked there more than 20 years.

Francisco Delariva said he figured his brother was on vacation when he didn't show up Tuesday for his 7 a.m. shift. He and other relatives said Thomas Delariva was a hardworking family man who didn't have enemies. They said he had no reason to travel down Indian Avenue.

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[caledesi]

1. And we have Tom Ridge heading up our HS and he is color-blind!

Isn't that a bit of irony? <Said it himself in an interview last week>...