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An offier oversees an effort to start controlled, preventative avalanches — using a 105-millimeter Howitzer cannon.

Preventative Avalanche | National Geographic

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[davidluchsinger]

“I didn’t see where that one landed”.

“Dispatch to state troopers, we’re receiving multiple calls from a neighborhood about 7 miles away from your position about an artillery barrage.”

[egoruderico]

Plot twist: the first 2 shots were warning shots for the mountain to surrender, but it didn’t leave the area so they shot the third one.

[MrBerett]

Lmao y'all are going to ignore the fact that two howitzer shells went over the mountain and hit God knows what? Not to mention the fact that THEY MISSED A MOUNTAIN! 😂😂

[captainjackpugh]

“You couldn’t even hit a mountain with your accuracy”

[chris-hayes]

"We've checked there's no one on the mountain we can hit"
*Proceeds to fire clean over the mountain* 🤣🤣

[honeybadgerstudios]

“What do you do for a living?”
“I shoot artillery”
“Oh so you’re in the military?”
“Hahahahaha nah”

[RikkiTikkiTavi]

Some poor squirrel was just minding his own buisiness snackin on nuts, when he suddenly exploded into pieces

[mitchelljules]

They shelled the first two over the mountain and they landed in a neighborhood on the other side and acted like nothing happened lol

[alexanderrosales]

These guys couldn't hit the broad side of a mountain. 😂

[TheBestPals]

Everybody gangster till the construction company be shooting artillery

[DubsnSubsSessions]

"I'm going to lower the jack" *jacks it higher*

[Eugarps]

To those wondering, the parking lot that the cannon is fired from is just north of Bird Point on the Seward Highway (at lat/long: 60.93191861444148, -149.36040009324583 on the map). There's nothing on the other side of the mountain except another mountain.

[YourselfAndEye]

Lmao they shot two rounds clear over the mountain.

[afranca]

That one dude isn't wearing any hearing protection. He's gonna hate himself in about 20 years.

[jicani]

Is this National Geographic or Comedy Central? This is hilarious!

[JoseGLozano]

"is the police in the US being militarized?"
"Nah people exaggerate"
*State troopers playing with their own artillery not knowing how to operate it and miss a mountain two times*

[Sugarsail]

It is not a 20 foot long cannon, the barrel is less than 8 feet long....guy narrator always exaggerating the length of his gun.

[dr.a]

True story in the 1980s, a house just down the street from where I lived in North Ogden, Utah was hit by an errant shell that missed the mountain. It caused a small fire but the house survived.

[stephenfowlie]

Everyone: You can't fight mother nature.

[konstantinosv.]

- You are shooting to high, there is a village on the other side of the mountain.
- Ooooops....