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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/4806036.stm
Heck :huh:
Okay kids, that is a bomb, B-O-M-B. Dont touch it, we were too ignorant and lazy to defuse it, so it can blow up any day now.
How something like this even can happen!? :stare:
Perilscope
03-14-06, 07:53 PM
Heck :huh:
You remained speechless there eh!
Why a bomb at school anyway, museum and historic military display area are there for that.
"I think the school are fortunate it didn't go off beforehand.":nope:
I second that…
Unrelated picture…but funny
http://www.nettouring.com/images/Public/clean_bomb.png
What amazed me they hade the bomb since the 1960’s incredible it never went off and I am glad it did not.
bradclark1
03-15-06, 09:40 AM
How something like this even can happen!? :stare:
How can we take you seriously when you wear a pink hat. :huh:
Excalibur Bane
03-15-06, 05:10 PM
Now there is an accident waiting to happen. It wouldn't suprise me at all if it went off and flattened the entire school and anyone in it. The one certainly in life, is that stupidity like this is almost always rewarded. :yep:
Nice to hear it did not happen.
Perilscope
03-15-06, 06:27 PM
What amazed me they hade the bomb since the 1960’s incredible it never went off and I am glad it did not.Proof of certain reliability from the device… at least that one… :D
What amazed me they hade the bomb since the 1960’s incredible it never went off and I am glad it did not.Proof of certain reliability from the device… at least that one… :D
:shifty: :hmm: yes
TLAM Strike
03-15-06, 10:31 PM
What amazed me they hade the bomb since the 1960’s incredible it never went off and I am glad it did not.Proof of certain reliability from the device… at least that one… :D Eather that or the detonator was bad! :lol:
Perilscope
03-15-06, 11:10 PM
Eather that or the detonator was bad! :lol:You had to insert a low shot eh!... :nope: ... :lol:
What amazed me they hade the bomb since the 1960’s incredible it never went off and I am glad it did not.Proof of certain reliability from the device… at least that one… :D Eather that or the detonator was bad! :lol:
I wonder what their definition of "live" is. One might consider the presence of explosives in the bomb even with the detonator removed to be live nowadays although it probably wouldn't have been back then.
Wim Libaers
03-16-06, 04:10 PM
What amazed me they hade the bomb since the 1960’s incredible it never went off and I am glad it did not.Proof of certain reliability from the device… at least that one… :D Eather that or the detonator was bad! :lol:
I wonder what their definition of "live" is. One might consider the presence of explosives in the bomb even with the detonator removed to be live nowadays although it probably wouldn't have been back then.
Well, some old explosives can degrade in dangerous ways. If it contained picric acid for example, then a reaction with the metal in the bomb could produce dangerously sensitive picric acid salts. The picric acid itself it pretty safe (explosive, but not sensitive enough to explode from normal falls etc.) but an explosion of the salts could set off the main charge. With stable explosives it would be safe.
XabbaRus
03-16-06, 05:21 PM
Reminds of this time at school.
This kid had found a WWII hand grenade in his garden at the weekend. Anyway shows his dad who did nothing, so he keeps it and polishes it. On Monday he brings a live grenade 45 years old too, in to school, on the bus with 50 other kids. Then he and his mate play "bounce the grenade" off the wall..... :doh: :doh:
Apparently the pin broke but jammed. Takes teh thing to class and shows the teacher.
End result, we got a day off school, he got his head seriously kicked in.
TLAM Strike
03-16-06, 06:09 PM
Reminds of this time at school.
This kid had found a WWII hand grenade in his garden at the weekend. Anyway shows his dad who did nothing, so he keeps it and polishes it. On Monday he brings a live grenade 45 years old too, in to school, on the bus with 50 other kids. Then he and his mate play "bounce the grenade" off the wall..... :doh: :doh:
Apparently the pin broke but jammed. Takes the thing to class and shows the teacher.
End result, we got a day off school, he got his head seriously kicked in. See that wouldn’t have happen in my school, we got training in small arms and anti-personnel weapons at a very early age. :D
Reminds of this time at school.
This kid had found a WWII hand grenade in his garden at the weekend. Anyway shows his dad who did nothing, so he keeps it and polishes it. On Monday he brings a live grenade 45 years old too, in to school, on the bus with 50 other kids. Then he and his mate play "bounce the grenade" off the wall..... :doh: :doh:
Apparently the pin broke but jammed. Takes the thing to class and shows the teacher.
End result, we got a day off school, he got his head seriously kicked in.
Hey I remember that one was it in the UK?
tycho102
03-16-06, 07:11 PM
What amazed me they hade the bomb since the 1960’s incredible it never went off and I am glad it did not.
Nah.
It's when you have a really humid environment, and the water helps create nitric acid in the explosives. The hygroscopicity starts breaking down the steel, generating all kinds of compounds that can react with sunlight or just a very minor shock. This is the problem with explosives when they sit underwater for a few years -- it's safer to leave them where they are, or just blow them where they are. The bomb was actually "safe" being where it was. Had it been sitting outside, in the fog/mist/rain, then it would be another matter. After 50 years, one good tip might very well have blown it.
Pretty wierd, though. It's tough to imagine someone just happening to roll through the school, and know enough to check the primer and yellow marking, and be able to say "Uh....that is TOTALLY a yellow tube! What the hell's it doing in this school!?"
My local museum had a full length Mark-18 torpedo on display. Kind of makes you wonder... :rotfl:
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