Not Everything is Recyclable (Bomb squad called after someone left 155mm. howitzer round @dump)

SeattleCrime.com ^ | January 4, 2009 | Jonah Spangenthal-Lee

[Stoat]

Not Everything is Recyclable

 

By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee

 

 

Seattle police shut down several streets in Wallingford and called out the bomb squad this morning

 

 

 

after staff at the North Seattle Transfer Station found that someone had tried to dispose of explosives at the facility.

The call came in around 9:45 after an employee reported that they'd found a live 155mm round—like those used in Howitzer cannons—in a recycling bin.

The bomb squad recovered the explosives and police reopened the streets around the facility shortly before 10 a.m.

And now I think we can all agree that recycling and terrorism are practically the same thing.

[GonzoGOP]

I wonder if the military uses RFID chips to track these like your local grocery story uses them to track food and other merchandise?

Nope, because if you can see and RFID your enemy can see it too. He might not be able to read the encrypted data, but e can pinpoint where something is squawking. It is never a good idea to let the other guys artillery know where your ammo dump is.

[Harold Shea]

The flares I thinking of was a cardboard tube about
3”X28”.You had to hold `em with both hands and hit it
on a hard surface.

One of the coolest things I ever saw was when we were
surrounded with they said a full NVA division at Camp Caroll,
they went to firing these giant flares out of those big
mortars that turned 150 acres to brighter than daylight.

Had to have been cool to have been on boat...Delta Sailor
I guess

Welcome back brother

[snuffy smiff]

"I’ve heard that large pieces of shrapnel can be difficult to remove from certain body regions...."

Odd, I always heard it as: "large pieces of shrapnel may EASILY remove certain entire regions of your body....!!!!"

Carry on.