Creepy by duxup (2.00 / 0) #10 Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 12:41:12 PM EST
Back home on a classmate’s farm there was this small unmarked building.  Small unmark buildings aren’t all the unusual in that rural landscape as nobody puts up “farmer John's unused and oddly placed shed” signs on things.  Yet this one just seemed odd as it had no windows, no big garage door or anything.  Perhaps because I wasn’t from around there it seemed odd.  I didn’t ask any questions until I saw some folks visiting it one day.  They parked their cars, went inside . . . and then some other people left a little while later.  I couldn’t figure out what it could be.

I asked and the friend who later pointed out some other structures on the edge of their land.  They were flat cement structures with one cement slab in sitting on top of the larger slab.  I think it has something to do with that.

Later when I noticed the unmarked “milk truck like things” driving around I just figured they were part of the same show.

Creepy.

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missile silo ? by sasquatchan (4.00 / 1) #12 Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 12:57:03 PM EST
Don't they hide those in the middle of nowhere farm fields ?

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I'm guessing so by duxup (4.00 / 1) #13 Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 01:11:42 PM EST
I always assumed the concrete slab was a missile silo, and the shed (located quite a ways away) may have been some monitoring or control facility, or the shed was nothing at all.

Later when I started noticing the “milk trucks” was around the time they were dismantling missile silos around the nation.  At first the “milk trucks” were escorted by SUVs, later by unmarked military vehicles, and even later marked military vehicles with some guys in well armed humvees and even the occasional wheeled APC and USAF logos on some of the trucks.  By that time I didn’t know the family so I wasn’t able to ask what was up, but even when I did know them they weren’t very talkative.  Afraid I’d go talking to my commie friends, or maybe they were just creped out by the civilization destroying tool not far from their farm?
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The milk trucks by joh3n (4.00 / 1) #36 Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 05:08:58 PM EST
Were carrying liquid nitrogen and helium.

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Cool, pun by duxup (4.00 / 1) #37 Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 05:26:35 PM EST
I wondered about what they could be moving.  I never tried to flag them down and ask.  First because I’m shy.  Also because if they were carrying something important I’m afraid I’d be shot.

I called them “milk trucks” but the actual containers were perfectly round cylinders and larger than what a milk truck would contain.  I wondered if it was some gas or liquid.   The fact that I never saw anyone moving any obvious missiles made me wonder if from time to time if the trucks couldn’t do that as well.  Then again it isn’t like you need to move them much once in place :P  Even when they reported they were dismantling silos I never saw a whole missile moved, but it’s not like they’d do that when people are likely to drive buy and ask questions : P

I would have liked to see them move the actual missile out of the silo.  I’ve seen many videos of them blowing up the soils.  Those stories became insanely common in that area on the local news for a while, something like area third grader wins spelling bee and other filler stories.

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my vote by MillMan (4.00 / 3) #14 Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 01:12:35 PM EST
skull and bones monolith.

I never really considered face-to-face contact a possible thing. -CRwM
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That’s entirely possible by duxup (2.00 / 0) #23 Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 01:30:49 PM EST
For all I know all the little elements I mentioned were totally disconnected and had to do with something else.   The only thing was I didn’t hear any strange noises emanating from either structure.   I don’t know skull and bones very well but I hear strange sounds tend to come from their meeting places, or at least it makes them more interesting to talk about.
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Sneaky Milk by CheeseburgerBrown (4.00 / 5) #22 Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 01:28:41 PM EST
I'm pretty sure it was milk, tainted with designer pharmaceuticals designed to lay a foundation for a civilian mind-control programme, lying dormant until activated by the addition of a catalyst sprayed into the air at night from invisible triangle-shaped blimps.

You will notice, if you dig deeply enough, that nearly every name on the US "No Fly" list is lactose intolerant.

It begins with the cows. It all ends in tears.


I am from a small, unknown country in the north called Ca-na-da. We are a simple, grease-loving people who enjoy le weekend de ski.
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And don't forget, by ambrosen (4.00 / 1) #27 Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 02:18:43 PM EST
All these cows are hidden from view by their fun loving cowwqas.

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Around here by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #31 Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 03:04:26 PM EST
that would be a counting house.
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You mean like? by duxup (2.00 / 0) #32 Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 03:43:34 PM EST
The Count?
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Yah. by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #35 Tue Feb 21, 2006 at 04:27:40 PM EST
I was in the MBTA counting house once. A concrete bunker of a building with no windows and only double entry one door. You had to go in one, let it close, they inspect you on video and two-way mirrors, then they let you in the second door.

Of course, that's where they take all the bus, subway, train and boat fare money. It's also where they keep all the tokens, so I guess a little bit of security it understandable.

Ugly building, though.
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