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Originally Posted by XabbaRus

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?

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Originally Posted by STEED

What amazed me they hade the bomb since the 1960â€™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: