Man finds washed-up sea mine on Cornish beach and rolls it home

[Wansworth]

Back in the 1960 we used to dig up hundreds of shells from the beach at west wittering,someone said they wherefrom the spitfires,police didn’t want to know.....

 

[Metabarca]

Round here we still find shells from WWI, but mostly in the form of shrapnel. But we did find some live rifle rounds in the garden, along with an Austro-Hungarian canteen.

 

[Fimacca]

Was it actually a bomb, though, or was it obvious as soon as she got there that someone had mistaken some innocuous item?

I once accidentally left one of those plastic parts boxes with many drawers, full of loose electronic components, in the canteen at work. The catering staff called it in as a bomb, presumably because Hollywood thinks electrical parts look sexier than blocks of off-white putty. Once the grownups got there they had no problem picking it up and taking to to Lost Property for me to collect, since it was patently obvious it wasn’t a bomb.



According to a nurse I used to know, it’s always the older generations who come up with excuses like this (“I fell on it while cleaning!”) ?

Pete

Well the bomb squad came out and defused it . It was a home made thing by some miscreant. She was not popular......

 

[Capt Popeye]

A medic mate of mine, when working in casualty at St Mary’s Paddington had an old boy come in late one night with a bofors shell stuck up his rear end. He used it to push back his piles! Upon removing said shell my mate, a TA artillery boy, realised it was live. All potentially very messy!!!!

Yea as that saying goes - they do not like it 'up em' {#

 

[Capt Popeye]

Back in the late 40s early 50s we used to go looking for Rounds in the Sand Dune Bunkers near the Martello Towers etc on what is now Felixstowe Ferry Golf Club, had a elder cousin, who insisted on squashing a .303 round between heavy rocks /stones etc

Oh how the hell we survied I do not know ?

 

[Tomahawk]

Came across a depth charge whilst diving in Gaer Lock many moons ago... We left it and surfaced pronto. Reported our find to the gate at Faslane on the way home and got a phone call within a couple of hours. Met up with a dive sauad from the Mob next day who confirmed it was actually an ASM but without any detonator. ... so comparatively safe

 

[Stemar]

Was on the Dublin to Holyhead ferry once, enough years ago for people to be nervous and forgot my briefcase in the cafeteria. It had a multimeter in it and I'd been careless with the wires so they stuck out.

I was not the favourite person on board when I went back for it...

 

[davidpbo]

Do you really need to ask!!!???

Yes if he had to remove it to see it was live. Assuming there is an indentation of the bottom of the case if it has been fired ?.