Posted: 7/7/2006 5:58:37 PM EDT
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It'll be interesting to see how this plays out... KOBTV NEWS Deputies order evacuation after finding cache of weapons Last Update: 07/07/2006 6:25:56 PM By: Todd Dukart Video Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department deputies have called for a part of the East Mountains to be evacuated after discovering unopened containers and a large cache of weapons. The area affected is Abbey Road and South 14 near the community of Miera, roughly halfway between the communities of Tijeras and Chilili. Sheriff’s department spokesperson Erin Kinnard said the evacuations are just a precaution as crews from various agencies work on the scene. Kinnard said earlier that the discovery was prompted by the report of an untimely death on Thursday evening. Upon arriving, officers spotted what they thought were explosives. On Friday morning, the sheriff’s department, bomb squads from the Albuquerque Police Department and Kirtland Air Force Base, and agents from the ATF and FBI began investigating the scene. KOBTV |
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Sadly it was a guy who goes by the name of Big Mike. Giant of a man with a heart even bigger that that. Regular at Gunboards and Parallax Bills collectors forum's. Very knowledgable and alway will to help newbys as well as old timers. Disabled veteran of the USMC. A lot of his time, enery and money went to an orphanage in Russia where he regularily visited to help out anyway he could. None of this will be on any of the news channels. From what little I know of him, I'm sure the gates were opened extra wide to let him enter. Avid collector of milsurps and even had a Class III license. Hopefully the news media doesn't get a hold of that fact. Lsited as elderly, but only in his fifties. |
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From what little I have heard, they don't seem to be villifying him. There are SOPs in place to handle things like this....because there has been individuals in the past who did like to "work up their own projects" that would pose a direct hazard to others. You can faul the media for their gross lack of integrity and fact-checking. Don't fault the SO for SOPs. Sorry for the loss, Erich. |
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Hers's a link to a thread on Gunboards about Big Mike: www.gunboards.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=173199 |