The Missile

A lot has changed in America since September 11th 2001. Some of the things that we did to Russ back in the 1990’s with no legal repercussions would now get us assigned to Guantanamo Bay and while you are reading this we would still be getting water-boarded.

 

This is a true story of one of those incidents.

In the mid 1990’s, after repeatedly warning Russ that his needlessly aggressive actions and rude behavior was de-stabilizing the balance of friendship between them, the Brothers held a convening to discuss using a strong statement of force. The brave and committed brothers strategized long into the night on what should be done. Finally, at the crack of dawn it was decided to launch an actual missile at Russ.

The next day the brothers searched far and wide throughout the land. As luck would have it, late in the afternoon they found what they were looking for in the back of a pizza parlor. It was a long, thin pontoon that was originally on an older model sea-plane. The industrious brothers paid the perplexed owner for their newfound treasure, loaded it into their truck and took it home.

Having lugged the pontoon into the living room of an apartment that a brother graciously offered, these heroic men worked for 12 days sanding, cutting and painting the pontoon until they turned it into a non-explosive but visually believable air to ground missile.

On day thirteen, the brothers received a reliable report that Russ and his tribe had gone boating on the lake for the day. Being decisive men of action, the brothers loaded the missile into the truck at approximately 10:00am. Uncovered, they drove the missile through town having many spectators wave and cheer them on in their upright mission of justice. They even stopped at a grocery store and purchased a large amount of dry ice.

When the brothers arrived at the Russ dwelling they unloaded the gleaming missile, filled it with dry ice, turned the side with the new radiation symbol which they had painstakingly created on it and chained it to the largest tree in the Russ front yard and locked the chain. Lastly, they poured water into the missile which reacted to the dry ice and created streams of vapor coming pout of the missile. The two exhausted but jubilant brothers then drove home.

According to witnesses, Russ arrived back from his lake excursion happy, inebriated and ready to relax. However, as Russ turned on to his street he was alarmed to see an angry horde of neighbors gathered in front of his dwelling. As Russ pulled into his driveway, he saw the smoking nuclear missile chained to his tree. Unfortunately, the angry mob of neighbors descended upon him and prevented any further inspection of the missile.

While Russ answered the panicked neighbors as best he could, the rest of the Russ family dove into the house and took cover from the increasingly hostile mob. While the neighbors angrily demanded an explanation as to why Russ would chain a smoking, nuclear missile to his tree in their beautiful neighborhood, Russ assured them that he would take care of everything in the morning. He then made his way through the murderous crowd went into his living room and shut the door. The Russ family then shut the curtains and had a nice dinner and went to bed.

The neighbors eventually grew tired of their useless protest and dejectedly wandered back to their homes. Russ was too lazy to do anything about the missile for several days until finally a neighbor took it upon himself to cut the chains and take the missile away.

Do you see why the Russ neighbors tend to go crazy?