Shots fired at Camp Shelby, Mississippi
So two Jim-Bobs in Mississippi driving a red Ford Ranger with “Broken Arrow” written on the windshield, drove up to Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, Mississippi and fired off a couple of rounds hitting no one, apparently, according to WDAM.
A vehicle matching the description of the two suspects truck was found near New Augusta off Old Augusta Road.
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Police are still searching for two white males that allegedly fired from the vehicle and fled in the vehicle.
Members of the Forrest County Sheriff’s Department and the U.S. Forestry Commission are assisting in the search.
According to CBSNews about 4600 reservists and national guardsmen are doing their annual training at Camp Shelby.
Clearly we need to ban red Ford Rangers.
Category: Breaking News
Yep, no need to arm our Military, right Liberals?
I wonder if they fired at the gate or through the fence. I’ve never been to Shelby so I don’t know if it’s possible to shoot at Soldiers through the fence there.
I did a lot of pre-deployment training at Camp Shelby before going to Afghanistan in 09′. Almost everyone I came into contact with was armed. It would have been a bad day for these two idiots if they would have pulled this stunt near our group.
It’s way past due to arm our brother and sisters in uniform.
Were they seen shooting into Camp Shelby when they fired the rounds off? Right now it sounds like it just could have been Jimmy-Ray and Billy-Bob taking potshots at a hog they saw while going down the road. There are backwoods roads all around Camp Shelby, and it’s merely surrounded by wire-topped chain link fence.
Hold Mah Beer and Watch this^^^^^^^^^”
YOU BOUT TO BE ON THE YOUTUBES MAH MAN.
Yeah. This is an opportunity for the local radio/TV stations to get picked up by network. Hot damn! I just don’t get the sense that these guys were actually firing on anybody. We’ll see.
You’ve never heard of ‘shot by proximity’? It’s kind of like ‘guilt by association’.
It would be nice if there were some facts relayed by the media instead of just reporting what could have been the red Ford backfiring.
Good old Camp Shelby (name subject to change). Did anybody else know the U.S tested two nukes outside Camp Shelby in 1964 .
Yup!
About 25 mi west of Shelby, actually – at Tatum Salt Dome.
My guess is they had a flag on the grounds that could be seen from the road. Take that damned flag down and replace it with a white flag.
Maybe it was some angry SJW’s thinking they were firing at the swastika carved into the ground there? ( A large swastika was carved into the ground on Camp Shelby during WWII by German POWs kept there that expected to see German planes fly over the camp any day. It also had an arrow carved into the ground pointing to their prison camp.)
No comment until they catch the shooters, except that I’m glad nobody got hurt.
There you go PN, being all sensible and stuff.
What fun is that? 😉
And I share your gratitude.
Well, we can still ban red Ford Rangers in the interim, can’t we?
When red Ford Rangers are outlawed, only outlaws will have red Ford Rangers!
And I’m good with that- I owned a Taurus once.
Once.
A Taurus? I had a Pinto. I defied death just sitting in it with the engine off. By the time I dumped it, about the only original piece of that thing not loose, missing, or broken was the damn gas tank!
I thought those Pinto gas tanks would explode just by looking cross-eyed at them.
You were very lucky.
Seems like there was a trial (around 40 years ago) about exploding Pinto tanks back in my and Twist’s old stomping grounds.
My father was a juror for it. He was described as the “burly steel worker”.
I heard that Ford is considering reviving the Pinto model, the ad campaign tune will be “Chariots of Fire”!
You owned a Pinto. Really? That’s like getting caught riding mopeds or boinking fat chicks.
Not that there’s anything wrong with those activities…
Both are fun until a friend sees you doing it!
My friends were usually not too far off…..
My father sat on the jury during the Ford Pinto trial. I have a whole lot of memorabilia from the trial. They even had t-shirts made that said “where the hell is Winamac” on it because the trial was held in a town with 2,500 residents.
Well, you girls ain’t got nuthin’ on me; I owned a Taurus and a Pinto wagon (red with the fake wood grain panels. Oh yeah, I was stylin’ and profilin’)! In fact, my Pinto wagon had a Ranger motor in it!!!
I had a Ford Ranger, and I loved that little truck! It was tough as nails. The only reason I got rid of it was because I need more room in the cab — and it attracted hornets. It was bright yellow, and they thought it was the mother hornet, I guess. But if I could have had two vehicles, I’d still have my beautiful little truck.
I had a Ford Ranger myself, a1983 model that proved its crashworthiness when I walked away after someone hit me head on! My next was an F150, and soon I’ll own a new one!
My first vehicle I “owned” was a 1972 F250 with a 390 engine that burned a quart of oil every 100 miles. Paid $200 for it, and damned if I didn’t get every dime I paid out of it.
ETA…yes, it was red, and I called it Hemorrhoid, cause I spent so much time keeping it running, it was a big bloody pain in the ass!
I cannot tolerate them banning Red Ford Ranger Pickups. No sirree, Bob. This week Red Ford Ranger Pickups, next week it may be Blue F-350 Duallys. Nope, gotta watch the 6 of my Red Ford Ranger Friends, (even if they are drunk and stupid enough to do something like this, while flying a “Broken Arrow” decal on the windshield). Not very incognito. Sorta like trying to hide a broke down Jag under a hillbilly carport behind a mailbox with no door. It’s gonna stick out like a Light Sport Plane in a hayfield, Or a pukestained purple jump suit at a gay bar.
Or a handlebar mustache that sorely needs mustache wax, Frankie!
Jonn, you forgot “high capacity” red Ford Rangers. Those are the most eeeeeevil.
BREAKING NEWS:
Complete physical description of suspects released:
1. Both dressed in dungarees overalls, barefoot and no undergarments.
2. Unshaven and patchy appearance.
3. Cross-eyed and or wandering-eyed.
4. Speaks French-like language.
5. Both wearing alligator tooth necklaces strung together with 10 lb fishing line.
6. Carrying 1 gallon milk bottles of clear liquid.
7. Very large prodruding ears.
8. Inordinately large area between eyes and hairline.
9. Twelve toes each foot.
10. 19 teeth between the 2 of them.
XXX END XXX
And they were heard yelling, squeal like a pig boy……
Reminds me of a song, Master Chief…
Wrong place by a few hundred miles. Deliverance was set in north Georgia.
Just described most of the population of Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and parts of Georgia. That oughta narrow the search area down considerably…
Someone is going to frame the wanted poster and put it with the rest of their family pictures.
Except for the coon-ass accents…
About 5 miles from Shelby, in the middle of that damn swamp, is a superb catfish house (can you say “superb” about anything in Mississippi?).
We ate mounds of prime filets, hush puppies, sweet green beans, and washed it down with lots of Coors before we waddled out of there.
I burped just remembering it 🙂
The pancake house outside the gate is good for the mornings too!
John,
From the looks of the above comments,,
If Ford Rangers are banned, a lot of the folks here are going to be out of sorts.
By the way, If (when) any you Ford fans find yourself in trouble, give me a call, The “Goat”(Dodge Ram for all of you non-MOPAR folks) and I will come get you.
I thought the Goat was a GTO?
It is but the trucks have the Ram on them so they are called the goat. Around here anyway.
A Dodge (Drips Oil, Drops Grease Everywhere )? MOPAR (My Old Pig Ain’t Running/Mostly Old Parts And Rust)?
I’m from the area, and I find this pretty bizarre. Even the uber-Libertarian types you run into consider the military to be distinct from any anti-government sentiments. The units there now are almost guaranteed to be local Guardsmen. So not exactly the kind of target the militia sympathizing survivalist whackadoos would be looking for. Southern Miss is close by, but it’s not the sort of campus that would tolerate anti-Americanism.
If it wasn’t for the article specifically stating they shot at the soldiers I’d have pegged it as a couple drunk rednecks out target shooting who didn’t realize they were so close to base.
Jade Helm activists???
Did they REALLY try to track the alleged shooters, as in like following the trail of empty Natural Light beer cans to where they went in the woods?
Busch did it!
The latest corrected report of this incident is that there was one man in the PU truck, not two as widely reported yesterday, and that the reported shots fired were “in the vicinity” of Camp Selby, not on its property. The stories are fading quickly and it’s a hoot to read some of them that are much more creative and sensational writing than fact-based reporting. When all is said and done, I’m guessing that there will have been no shots fired at anyone and, probably, no shots fired at all. And the truck that police are searching high and low for will turn out to be one that was just driving by and was seen at or about the time someone thought he heard gunfire. By the way, alligator hunting season begins August 28.
I’m in shock that Jade Helm hasn’t been mentioned at all in this story or thread. Cause you see, Jade Helm gave Jim-Bob the PTSD and that’s why everything. Totally.
I am SO SICK of hearing tinfoil-heads spout off about Jade Helm that it isn’t even funny.
Hot hunting is all year long in Mississippi, thus it’s more likely it was Jim-Bob and/or Joe-Dan trying to bag a hog! Damn yellow Journalists!
We clearly need to ban trucks, but apparently Russel Honore was quoted as stuck on stupid this morning talking about the need for more gun control. :-\
So, no one in the world has ever heard a pickup truck backfire?