:usaflag: A lesson to be learned here somewhere friends!! :detecting:

[Cupajo]

In the late '60s I was stationed in Bitburg, Germany.

Friends of mine poked around some of the old bunkers still in evidence at the time.

They were fenced off, but a fence never stopped a damned fool or a teenager poking around (Same creature!!)

One of the fellows told me of reaching up high on a stone wall to retrieve a rusted thing that might be a relic he could relish owning to discover he had in his hands a potato masher grenade!

It could have been extremely sensitive to movement and killed the young fool!

He gently (Not a total fool!!) placed it on the closest protected surface and walked quietly away.

He called the authorities to report the find and lived to enjoy another day!!

There is a lesson here somewhere Friends,

CJ

 

[jbow]

Wouldn't it have been much more fun to throw it and run? ... unless it was in the city or something....

Seriously though.... you're right. Sometimes people come across old munitions, even CW, that were never used but were stored and ended up buried or somehow lost and hidden... then one day found. There is a world of difference between a UXB that was fired and on that was stored. Those that wre stord are seriously dangerously unstable.

My BIL used to dive in the St. Johns river... this was probably 40 years ago. He came hom one day with an artillary shell. It was about a foot long and IIRC about 6" in diameter. He tried to open it, tapped on it trying to unscrew the top, finally we called the Marine base in Albany, GA. They came over and freeaked out, it was like they wre handling nitro glycerine in an old western movie... they were seriously careful. Turned out it was a shell from WW-II and really dangerous. We wre very lucky I think.

Still... wouldn't you like to throw a grenade?? I know... I know... he did the right thing.

J

 

[Cupajo]

I spent 81/2 years in the USAF as an aircraft weapons technician and I learned that one does not second guess explosives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are allowed no mistakes!!

The first may well be your last!!

Read and heed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CJ