Old Town missile survives dissing, plastic tube attack

The Old Town Missile, Albuquerque's beloved symbol of American pride and can-do-know-how-to-it-ness, came under attack yesterday when someone taped "THREE PLASTIC TUBES" to it.

From KKOB's unlinkable, unarchived, all-caps news page:

APPARENTLY, SOMEONE WHO THINKS THE MISSILE AT THE ATOMIC MUSEUM IN ALBUQUERQUE'S OLD TOWN AREA IS TOO VIOLENT .. LEFT SOMETHING RESEMBLING DYNAMITE AT THE SITE SUNDAY.

THE BOMB SQUAD WAS CALLED IN, BUT DETERMINED IT WAS JUST THREE PLASTIC TUBES TIED TOGETHER .. WITH A NOTE "DISSING" THE ROCKET. POLICE SAY THEY HAVE A FEMALE SUSPECT IN MIND.

KRQE, KOBTV and KOAT also have stories about this, the best among them being KOAT's because of this bombshell of a line: "When the bomb squad opened them up, they found toy dynamite and other non-threatening items."