Post subject: Re: Man finds artillery shell in back yard
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:00 am
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It happens.
My older brother and I when I was a kid in Tennessee, were playing in a creek near our house. We found an old artillery shell like this sticking out of the creek bed.
We ran like hell and called the police. I remember the Army actually coming out and taking it away. We were near Ft. Campbell.
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Laloosh
Post subject: Re: Man finds artillery shell in back yard
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:56 am
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twisted_steel2 wrote:
It happens.
My older brother and I when I was a kid in Tennessee, were playing in a creek near our house. We found an old artillery shell like this sticking out of the creek bed.
We ran like hell and called the police. I remember the Army actually coming out and taking it away. We were near Ft. Campbell.
Did they defuse it first? I sometimes wonder how people strolling the beaches of France don't trip over land mines that littered the beaches in the mid 1940's.
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Largent80
Post subject: Re: Man finds artillery shell in back yard
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 1:20 pm
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People are still tripping mines in Cambodia from the Vietnam crisis.
Terrible stuff.
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twisted_steel2
Post subject: Re: Man finds artillery shell in back yard
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 1:29 pm
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E.C. Laloosh wrote:
twisted_steel2 wrote:
It happens.
My older brother and I when I was a kid in Tennessee, were playing in a creek near our house. We found an old artillery shell like this sticking out of the creek bed.
We ran like hell and called the police. I remember the Army actually coming out and taking it away. We were near Ft. Campbell.
Did they defuse it first? I sometimes wonder how people strolling the beaches of France don't trip over land mines that littered the beaches in the mid 1940's.
Not sure, was pretty young. Don't know if it was live or not, just remember the activity afterwards watching from afar. Was really exciting as a kid!
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Largent80
Post subject: Re: Man finds artillery shell in back yard
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 1:36 pm
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twisted_steel2 wrote:
Not sure, was pretty young. Don't know if it was live or not, just remember the activity afterwards watching from afar. Was really exciting as a kid!
That must have been pretty cool. I would have been gacked to find something like that.
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