A police firing range next to a nuclear power plant? What could possibly go wrong? [View All]

From the WTF files: Calvert County, MD, Sheriff's office hosted a statewide SWAT shoot-off on a firing range next to the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Lusby.

Would have never seen this coming!

WaPo:

"At least five bullets escaped the firing range and traveled more than a half-mile before striking buildings and a vehicle near the reactors, according to the NRC, Constellation and the sheriff's office.

One struck the plant's 'outage control center,' which is used as a command area to orchestrate refueling efforts. Another hit an employee's sport-utility vehicle in the parking lot. Three others struck an office facility: Two of them hit the roof, and one shattered the outer pane of a first-floor window . . . Typically, officers shoot southward, away from the plant, while on the firing range, but during the exercise, officers somehow fired eastward. The rounds cleared an almost 30-foot-high berm and flew about 3,400 feet before striking the two office buildings and the door of the parked SUV."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/27/AR2009052703405.html?hpid%3Dartslot&sub=AR

Duh!