US Naval Barracks Shaped Like Swastika

[n2ize]

Conspiracy theorists are having a ball with this one.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biq2H8geWEo

[K8LET]

This is an old, old story: http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/26/local/me-swastika26



September 26, 2007

CORONADO, Calif. -- The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air.

The four L-shaped buildings, constructed in the late 1960s, are part of the amphibious base at Coronado and serve as barracks for Seabees.

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Navy officials say the shape of the buildings, designed by local architect John Mock, was not noted until after the groundbreaking in 1967 -- and since it was not visible from the ground, a decision was made not to make any changes.

It is unclear who first noticed the shape on Google Earth. But one of the first and loudest advocates demanding a change was Dave vonKleist, host of a Missouri-based radio-talk show, The Power Hour, and a website, www.thepowerhour.com.

[KG4CGC]

WE ARE DOOMED!

[W4GPL]

Are we really starting to recycle this stuff? It's like one of the first internet conspiracies I ever saw.

[suddenseer]

I knew it!!! I knew it !! See? I knew it!!

[wa6mhz]

I am 35 miles straight EAST of there.

[W4GPL]

Not just east, but EAST, eh?

[W5GA]

Not just east, but EAST, eh?

That makes him easterer.

[KG4CGC]

wittle bunny foo foo
hoppin through the fowest
scoopin up the field mice
and woppin off their heads

[W4GPL]

You ever figure when he takes a CRAP on the TOILET that THE NOISE he MAKES probably DEAFENS the neighborhood? Such DRAMA!

[KG4CGC]

You ever figure when he takes a CRAP on the TOILET that THE NOISE he MAKES probably DEAFENS the neighborhood? Such DRAMA!

Yeah. I think about him taking a crap all the time. :nono: