[Governor Dinwiddie]

[D Rider]

How come I never find cool stuff like that!

[Red Badger]

I’m betting she is BLOND..................

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Snickering Hound]

PAK 40 HE?

[dfwgator]

Do you know what kind of a bomb it was?

[a fool in paradise]

Unexploded dud?

As opposed to an exploding dud?

[pepsi_junkie]

The 24-year-old was reported to prosecutors for negligent endangerment and fined €4,000 ($4,694).

She's was dumb. That fine seems a bit high for something clearly not intended to be malicious. Especially since I hardly think she needs to be made an example of to warn other people who stumble across unexploded tank shells in the woods and want to bring them home. Proprietorial discretion is called for in my opinion.

[The Westerner]

The world is insane. An American follows rules and asks if she may take this WWII artifact home? Airport partially shuts down. Woman basically arrested. Told that to get out of jail it costs her $5,000! The poor girl cleaned the old relic, too, before bringing it to airport. Very Austrian of her.

The shell didn’t go off. Officials said, “At no time anyone in airport was in danger.”

Thus, insanity. What was the rule following American guilty of besides not knowing anything about munitions?

[Snickering Hound]

[WKUHilltopper]

It’s obvious her intent wasn’t malicious. What retards.

[Jeff Chandler]

Dumb as a . . .

[Larry Lucido]

the woman reportedly cleaned the artillery shell in her hotel room so as not to get her clothes dirty when she packed it up to take to the airport.

Very sensible.

[alternatives?]

If she had kept her mouth shut I wonder if it would have passed security checkpoints and made it home?

[Ancesthntr]

“The 24-year-old was reported to prosecutors for negligent endangerment and fined €4,000 ($4,694).”

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The cost of being stupid is high...and this idiot is finding that out at a young age. Hopefully, she actually learns to educate herself a little bit.

[beergarden]

“The incident shut down the arrival and luggage hall for 15 minutes. Police said at no time were passengers under threat.”

ah I see. It wasn;t a threat yet you pulled the entire police force just for this...

[Pelham]

I remember hearing of people who had found unexploded Civil War artillery shells and were using them around the house as decorations, thinking that they couldn’t possibly blow up.

[Fresh Wind]

We are told to always assume any gun to be loaded, and to handle and treat them as such.

But unexploded munitions are to be treated as harmless if they didn’t go off when they were originally deployed.

OK, got it.

[Kickass Conservative]

TSA confiscated a Cigar Punch from my BIL because it was made from a .44 Ca Cartridge. You pulled the bullet out and it had a punch attached. It took three Officers to decide it was a danger.

[bgill]

Stupid is as stupid does.