Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Yankees on alert as Hunley surfaces in New York

Via Bill

 
File/Associated Press The H.L. Hunley Traveling Exhibit alarmed motorists last week as it pass through New York City on its way to Connecticut for a Civil War show at Mystic Seaport. Local, state and federal authorities had to track down the replice of the Confederate sub after folks worried terrorists were bringing a torpedo to town. 

Obviously, the South is the only place where old times are not forgotten.

On Friday afternoon, a New York motorist called police with a tip about a potential terror threat. Seems someone was hauling a suspicious-looking object — it resembled a torpedo — on the highways around the city.

Before long 30 agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, were searching for this potential menace.

Even Coast Guard cutters in the area were on the lookout, since the thing looked sort of like a boat.
They should have set the terror color chart to Rebel Gray, because they were just hunting for a bunch of good ol’ boys from Summerville hauling a replica of the H.L. Hunley to Connecticut for the weekend.

“It’s pretty bad when four Confederates and a replica of the Hunley can cause all this,” says Mark Clark, general manager of the exhibit. “Maybe they were worried we were here to get them back.”

You know, this is the most trouble the Hunley has caused Yankees in nearly 150 years.

Educate, not destruct

11 comments:

  1. Hey, not all Yankees are stupid........posted.....;)

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  2. I think this might be the MOST trouble the Hunley ever caused to someone not assigned as crew.

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  3. Don't people now-a-days know what an early submarine looked like? I was born in Paterson, NJ (a long time ago)and we always went to visit the famous Holland submarine, which was on display at a local park. The builder, John Holland had made several prototypes. The one that was launched into the Passaic River, was the one we always went to see.

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    1. Guess DHS has gotten to the liberal's minds.:)

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  4. They are alarmed by a 160 year old Confederate artifact but not by twenty Iranian sapper teams already in place in the US. LMFAO
    What they gonna do if a reenactor shows up in a Continental Army uniform carrying a musket ?

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    1. :) That is a replica by the way. Dixie and I went to the Hunley Funeral and Grand Ball in 2004 and it was indeed, grand. We had three Virginia Reels going at once at the Citadel.

      H.L. Hunley Funeral/Parade (HK & My Dixie)
      http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=35&highlight=hunley

      Hunley Ball Ready To Go
      http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=1968&highlight=hunley

      Hunley Ball 1:30 AM
      http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=206&highlight=hunley

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    2. Well, they did say the South will rise again.....


      Besides, that was probably down by the city. Buncha ignorant, arrogant, bastards they are. Those of us in Upstate don't even accept that area as part of our State.....more like F'kin Jersey! Contrary to popular belief, Upstate doesn't doesn't start at Poughkeepsie either! Anything South of Saratoga is regarded as a useless flatlander country! Of course nobody South of Albany is going to be getting a BJ anytime soon....all the c*#&-suckers are up here!

      Leigh
      Whitehall, NY - Home of the US Navy

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    3. Yes, I went to a Deb party in Cooperstown and it reminded me of the North Virginia countryside.

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