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| Managing director uses live bomb for paperweight |
| 2008-12-05 |
| From the Rantburg Unexploded Ordinance Stories desk. Jeff Heyes kept the foot long shell on his desk at his print firm. He had been given the object by a friend who had gone diving in the Solent on the South Coast and spotted it on the sea bed. However, his office landlord, Clive Parks, and his friend Jon Williamson, a keen shooter, realised the detonator on the shell was still live and the TNT was showing. They carefully moved the bomb out of the building and into a flower bed before calling the police who then contacted the army's bomb disposal unit. Sounds like a 4o mm antiaircraft shell, but the author does not know anything, or asks anything. Ten police officers arrived at the office in Worcester on Thursday afternoon and two crews from Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service were on standby in the car park of the nearby Oak Apple pub. "Clear the put! There is unexploded ordinance in the flower bed!" After inspecting the bomb, two soldiers picked it up and placed it in a red box before putting it in the back of a truck. A red box ya say? That is discriminatory to colorblind people, ya know. They drove it back to their base in Powick Hams, Worcs, where it is understood a controlled explosion took place. Mr Williamson said: "I saw it on the desk and thought 'that looks dangerous'. "I shoot so I know about firearms, it still had a live detonator and the explosive TNT was exposed. That would be a hefty firearm to heft for that shell, heh. "We phoned the managing director and told him and he said, 'I cannot believe it is dangerous, it was given to me by a friend of mine'." Was his name Al Kaboomi, per chance? |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #3 He had been given the object by a friend Recommend he have another look at his "friends" list. If you didn't put it there, don't pick it up! It might be the last time your bend over. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-12-05 19:50 |
| #2 Careful who you call friends. Sure he's not boffin' the wife unit while you're printing away? Case of the wiitarded reporting on the wiitarded, mixed up with the murderous, in some sort of weird flower hater cult. |
| Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-12-05 18:38 |
| #1 I need to reload some .308 shells, but I'm short on TNT. Guess I'll need to stop by Shooters Supply and pick up a couple of lbs. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-12-05 16:54 |