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March 1, 2018 7:16 PM

Canada’s Air Force Accidentally Bombed Miami…With a Raft
posted by Johnny Wallflower (33 comments total)

I wonder if this is the weirdest thing that has dropped out of the sky in Florida. There's a lot of shady cargo down there.

Not long ago I had a dream that I heard Canada's planes were coming to bomb us. I was horrified, but I accepted that we deserved it, said my final farewells to everyone, and went into the forest to die. Turned out they weren't bombing us, they were flying overhead carrying bombs, and I just misread the headlines on social media. Everybody had a good laugh, except me.
posted by Countess Elena at 7:35 PM on March 1, 2018 [6 favorites]

Is that Ed Darko’s kid?
posted by cjorgensen at 7:41 PM on March 1, 2018 [11 favorites]

Eh, I mean we probably shouldn't be ones to complain about getting bombed.

We totally will, though.
posted by ckape at 8:07 PM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]

A life saving device, the most polite munition
posted by Ray Walston, Luck Dragon at 8:12 PM on March 1, 2018 [25 favorites]

Good thing they got the raft back. That's probably our only seaworthy vessel.
posted by srboisvert at 8:23 PM on March 1, 2018 [7 favorites]

Consider that a warning shot.
posted by blue_beetle at 8:24 PM on March 1, 2018 [9 favorites]

Canadian here:

Fuck with us again over steel tariffs and next time you get the canoe!
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 8:28 PM on March 1, 2018 [96 favorites]

Between this, and the recent Russian announcement, I bet some difficult questions are being asked over at the Pentagon right now.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 8:48 PM on March 1, 2018 [3 favorites]

Buncha hosers.
posted by dephlogisticated at 8:54 PM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]

next time you get the canoe

Tag added!
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:49 PM on March 1, 2018 [10 favorites]

I wonder if this is the weirdest thing that has dropped out of the sky in Florida

Not quite Florida, but just to the north a nuke fell out of the sky, never to be seen again.
posted by sideshow at 10:33 PM on March 1, 2018 [6 favorites]

This event is what we in the US should now refer to as the War of Northern Aggression.
posted by Nanukthedog at 4:00 AM on March 2, 2018 [9 favorites]

The War of Northern Aggression

Don’t you think that’s a little over-inflated?
posted by nickmark at 4:48 AM on March 2, 2018 [16 favorites]

Sloppy reporting.

The inflated raft was being carried by a Canadian CH-146 Griffin helicopter ...
. . .
The tightly-packaged raft—two by two feet in size ...

At what point did it go from inflated to tightly-packaged?
posted by Kirth Gerson at 5:00 AM on March 2, 2018 [3 favorites]

Around the time that the petunias appeared
posted by schmod at 5:10 AM on March 2, 2018 [12 favorites]

On the other hand, it could be seen as a spreemptive rescue effort for flooding resulting from climate change/the 2018 hurricane season.
posted by thivaia at 5:18 AM on March 2, 2018 [3 favorites]

Involuntary rescue efforts... We are only trying to help you escape your corporate/political/Russian overloads, people from Cuba still flee on rafts, maybe you want to come North, eh?

(Or not, after last nights nasty snowstorm in my region...)
posted by jkaczor at 6:13 AM on March 2, 2018

next time you get the canoe!
That's a paddling.
posted by drlith at 6:29 AM on March 2, 2018 [19 favorites]

The inflated raft was being carried by a Canadian CH-146 Griffin helicopter ...
. . .
The tightly-packaged raft—two by two feet in size ...

What is this? A raft for ants?
posted by Naberius at 6:39 AM on March 2, 2018 [4 favorites]

> Around the time that the petunias appeared

Oh no, not again.
posted by davelog at 6:45 AM on March 2, 2018 [9 favorites]

What is this? A raft for ants?

Timbits are small, they don't need a lot of room.
posted by Quindar Beep at 6:46 AM on March 2, 2018

Maybe 15 years ago a CF-18 accidentally dropped a missile on our golf course when the Canadian Forces were up here for training exercises. So that was exciting.
posted by ODiV at 7:17 AM on March 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

I'm glad that woman didn't get hurt. Geez that would have been bad.
posted by GuyZero at 7:25 AM on March 2, 2018 [2 favorites]

Maybe 15 years ago a CF-18 accidentally dropped a missile on our golf course when the Canadian Forces were up here for training exercises. So that was exciting.

You sure it was accidental?
posted by filthy_prescriptivist at 7:27 AM on March 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

Could have been worse. Could have been a Sea King.
posted by Capt. Renault at 8:51 AM on March 2, 2018

Could have been worse. Could have been Timbits.
posted by theora55 at 9:24 AM on March 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

Maybe 15 years ago a CF-18 accidentally dropped a missile on our golf course when the Canadian Forces were up here for training exercises. So that was exciting.

I choose to believe that the Canadian Armed Forces train at golfing.
posted by srboisvert at 9:37 AM on March 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

Sorry.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:52 AM on March 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

A couple Canadian soldiers went and collected the raft on the same day because, you know, that shit is super expensive and our military is pretty underfunded.

Can't stop giggling.
posted by dendritejungle at 10:45 AM on March 2, 2018

Between the Russia mock-bombing Mar-A-Lago and the Canadians throwing us a life saver, literally, I think it's time we inhabitants of Florida pack up, go north, and leave webcams behind to watch this place turn back into swamp on our smart phones.
posted by tilde at 11:27 AM on March 2, 2018

I think it's time we inhabitants of Florida pack up, go north

For like 30-ish percent of the state that's go back north.
posted by GuyZero at 11:33 AM on March 2, 2018 [3 favorites]

Some Canadian service member narrowly missed becoming a literal Zodiac killer.
posted by mubba at 5:51 PM on March 2, 2018 [6 favorites]

air ball from the Toronto Rafters
posted by Kabanos at 5:08 PM on March 4, 2018 [1 favorite]