When bin Laden’s corpse was laid out, one of the Navy SEALs was asked to stretch out next to it...

[Drunken Irishman]

In the White House Situation Room on Sunday night, the president and his national security team watched a soundless video feed of the raid.
When bin Laden’s corpse was laid out, one of the Navy SEALs was asked to stretch out next to it to compare heights. The SEAL was 6 feet tall. The body was several inches taller.

After the information was relayed to Obama, he turned to his advisers and said: “We donated a $60 million helicopter to this operation. Could we not afford to buy a tape measure?”

:rofl:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/death-of-osama-bin-laden-phone-call-pointed-us-to-compound--and-to-the-pacer/2011/05/06/AFnSVaCG_story_2.html

[MrsBrady]

1. if that's true, that's hilarious n/t

[State the Obvious]

8. Martha Raddatz reported it on an ABC Special nt

[TxVietVet]

2. THE MAN has a great sense of humor. A little "black" humor, nonetheless.

:toast:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. ROFL!

:rofl:

[tekisui]

4. C'mon, they can give us that picture.

[Historic NY]

5. Thank God someone thought to buy $200 toilet seats.,,,,note

Home Despot has specials on 25Ft tape measures.

[patrice]

6. Perhaps they were already thinking about deathers, both American & Muslim

Americans who could say the tape measure was special.

And provincial Muslims who might not know what a tape measure is . . . ?

:shrug:

[LiberalFighter]

7. They must have knives as part of their arsenal.

That might had been one way to measure him. Or walk it off toe heel.