Interesting, he must have gotten too sloppy after all those years and forgot to put safety first.
The silver lining is at least he didn't suffer...
1 posted on
05/05/2008 9:46:50 AM PDT by
Abathar
To: Abathar
I just hate it when that happens.
2 posted on
05/05/2008 9:48:39 AM PDT by
scooter2
(The greatest threat to the security of the United States is the Democratic Party.)
To: Abathar
Speaking for myself, I don't know that I'd want to be messing with 150 year old black powder explosives. From all I've read and heard, it takes very little to set it off.
4 posted on
05/05/2008 9:49:50 AM PDT by
r9etb
To: Abathar
A cannonball don't pay no mind
If you're gentle or if you're kind
It don't think of the folks behind
All on a beautiful morning.
5 posted on
05/05/2008 9:55:28 AM PDT by
Charles Martel
(The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
To: Abathar
Sam, if he’s a Virginia resident, should be counted as a Confederate casualty.
6 posted on
05/05/2008 9:57:45 AM PDT by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
To: Abathar
Sam White to Saint Peter: “What the heck am I doing here?”
8 posted on
05/05/2008 10:01:37 AM PDT by
TexasRepublic
(When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
To: Abathar
Well guess that answers the question of if an old civil war exploding cannon ball would still work after being buried in the Sahara sands in an Iron Clad that escaped from the South and sailed to Africa getting stranded when a river went dry.
9 posted on
05/05/2008 10:02:47 AM PDT by
Domandred
(McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
To: y'all
To: Abathar
15 posted on
05/05/2008 10:19:09 AM PDT by
blackdog
To: Abathar
Cannon Ball !
Coming at Ya’ !
17 posted on
05/05/2008 10:23:27 AM PDT by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
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18 posted on
05/05/2008 10:28:44 AM PDT by
indcons
To: Abathar
I’m sure he didn’t even know what hit him.
19 posted on
05/05/2008 10:31:18 AM PDT by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
To: Abathar
Just one question.......How does a 150 year old cannonball classify as “ancient?”
25 posted on
05/05/2008 10:43:37 AM PDT by
fredhead
(4-cylinder, air cooled, horizontally opposed......THE REAL VW!!!)
To: Abathar
There are still thousands of Civil War era shells buried, or sitting on the bottom off the coast. But a far more dangerous threat are unexploded munitions from more recent wars, especially the two World Wars.This is not correct. The more modern munitions are much harder to set off. The civil war era explosives get more unstable as time goes by.
To: Abathar
Antique certainly, but “ancient”?
/petty stylistic quibbling mode
To: Abathar
35 posted on
05/05/2008 12:18:03 PM PDT by
xcamel
(Forget the past and you're doomed to repeat it.)
To: Abathar
They don’t have to stay dry, all they have to do is dry out.
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