RPG to go fishing?? Eight Afghan Police Officers arrested for fishing with an RPG

Okay I somewhat laughed my ass off at first, but sad because children died.

WTF! where they thinking? :(

ASSOCIATED PRESS Article

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Let’s face it, fishing can be boring. It can take a long time to get a bite and even then, unless you’re really lucky, it’s usually not a high yield operation. Some local yokel policemen in Afghanistan (not pictured above) ran headlong into this same problem when they tried their hand at angling recently. Looking at the problem and the gear they had at hand, the group clearly thought they’d figured out a better way. They decided to employ the solution so many people in the Middle East seem to turn to to solve just about any problem these days: an RPG . . .
From the Associated Press:

Afghan security forces have arrested eight policemen for accidentally killing six children when firing a rocket into a river to catch fish, officials said Wednesday.
The incident took place last Friday in the Doshi district of the northern province of Baghlan when policemen on the bank of a river fired a rocket-propelled grenade into the water.
“The rocket went astray and hit a place where children were playing, killing six and wounding two others,” the interior ministry said in a statement.
“Eight police personnel accused of misusing government weapons that killed these children have been arrested and handed over to military prosecutors for investigation,” it said.

Around here, the phrase “police militarization” means coppers carrying M16 rifles and tooling around in armored cars. Thankfully things haven’t progressed to the level where they’re packing RPGs in the trunks of their cruisers. Yet. And if the cops had been dedicated members of the Armed Intelligentsia, they’d know that shooting a gun into water is inherently dangerous. Just like bullets, RPGs can skip off of the surface like a stone. We’re guessing that they won’t be alive long enough to enjoy them, but we’ll be sending IGOTD trophies their way anyway.

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Silly afghan, grenades are for fishing.

Why didn't they go a noodlin?

I didn't think there was any water in the middle east

Only an Afghan can still miss the fish in the barrel... with an RPG!

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Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey

Only an Afghan can still miss the fish in the barrel... with an RPG!

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What's a dog doing with a RPG?

Everybody knows if the US is gonna kill Afghan children...we use a drone!

Apparently this happens all the time in Afghanistan.........including other "ingenious" means to catch fish.


Didn't catch this at first in the Associated press article;

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Using explosives such as RPGs and hand grenades to kill and catch fish is not uncommon in Afghanistan.

In some parts of the country people even use electrical generators and bare wire to catch fish, posing extreme danger to swimmers.

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I have used M80's taped to rocks to fish when I was a kid being a bad, really bad kid, but sounds like it is a way of life over there. [hammer]

Afghani proverb: "give a man a fish, you feed him for a day-teach a man to fish, he'll blow shit up the rest of his life"

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Originally Posted by BPTactical

Afghani proverb: "give a man a fish, you feed him for a day-teach a man to fish, he'll blow shit up the rest of his life"

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[ROFL1]


Now I know what you are doing at 4am in the morning, thinking of funny proverbs to write on the forums........


What time does the wife put you to bed????

I suspect this was posted a few years back but it's a video of the same fishing technique:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KVyykFS3dY

I can tell you that a lot of the Afghani security forces I saw were high, even on the job. Heroin and opium from the poppy fields is big there, and is not stigmatized like drug use here. I assume that this might be another case of drug use on the job that had terrible consequences.