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Army investigating ordnance found in driveway material
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| 2/15/2004
| Steve Goldstein
Posted on 02/26/2005 11:51:15 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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Be careful when you pull into your driveway.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Wow.....this is the second time this has happened.
Bethany Beach DE had a beach replenishment project a few years back; pumped sand from a bit offshore.
Turns out at the end of WWII a ship dumped a bunch of AAA ammo right where they got the sand, thus filling the beach with unexploded AAA shells.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Last February, a Bridgeville, Del., resident discovered 32 corroded - but live - hand grenades while spreading crushed clamshells delivered to his property. Subsequent similar discoveries triggered the investigation. He should have put them up on eBay...
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posted on
02/26/2005 11:54:55 AM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Support Our Troops, Spit On A Reporter)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
"Some grenades were actually found inside the clams." Boy, that would blow your Fryolator to smithereens.
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:00:49 PM PST
by
Fido969
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I recall reading a magazine on local New Jersey history. I believe it was around Egg Harbor, maybe even further south, there was a large ammunition factory from WWI in NJ. It's all gone now, but at the time it was a BIG complex. The time frame is off but I wonder if there's any connection.
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:03:04 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Support Our Troops, Spit On A Reporter)
To: Doctor Raoul
I live in Egg Harbor Township. A few months ago my neighbor had a load of topsoil delivered to his yard. He was spreading it with a Bobcat and uncovered a morter shell. He didn't know what it was, so he got out of the Bobcat, picked it up and leaned it against a tree. After awhile he decided to call the cops. 30 minutes later the whole neighborhood was shutdown. The punchline of the story is, he bought the topsoil from the neighbor on the other side of his house, who owns a development company. I don't think they've spoken to each other since.
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:10:23 PM PST
by
Rokke
To: Fido969
Wonder what an oyster would make out of a grenade?
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:14:20 PM PST
by
Goodgirlinred
( GoodGirlInRed Four More Years!!!!!)
To: Doctor Raoul
One of the plants at teh company I work for was built on the site of a WWI munitions plant. Lots of stories of finding unexploded munitions during recent construction projects. Apparently there was an explosion there many decades ago. Every once in a while a shell turns up in someone's garden.
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:16:29 PM PST
by
cyclotic
(Cub Scouts-Teach 'em young to be men, and politically incorrect in the process)
To: Goodgirlinred
Wonder what an oyster would make out of a grenade? A Palestinian, of course!
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:16:59 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(If Islam is a religion, so is Liberal!)
To: Goodgirlinred
A really big pearl to give your ex?
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:17:34 PM PST
by
null and void
(They aren't character flaws, they're character embellishments...)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The paving contractors said, "Business is booming."
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:18:11 PM PST
by
punster
To: robertpaulsen
To: Strategerist
Turns out at the end of WWII a ship dumped a bunch of AAA ammo right where they got the sand, thus filling the beach with unexploded AAA shells.
Reminds me of a joke from the Falklands War
What's black and white and red and flies once?
Answer: A Penguin after stepping on a landmine...
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:20:33 PM PST
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I think this happened in north Louisiana as well near Barksdale Air Force Base a few weeks ago
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
"Be careful when you pull into your driveway."Just leave those wires sticking out of the ashphalt alone.
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:22:32 PM PST
by
spunkets
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
This gives a whole new meaning to the term "Driving An Old Bomb"
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:26:26 PM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
To: null and void
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:32:55 PM PST
by
Goodgirlinred
( GoodGirlInRed Four More Years!!!!!)
To: Goodgirlinred; doug from upland; thoughtomator
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
Why does your driveway brow?
With land-mine fills and mortar shells,
And pretty clams all in a row.
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:33:21 PM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
To: thoughtomator
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posted on
02/26/2005 12:34:27 PM PST
by
Goodgirlinred
( GoodGirlInRed Four More Years!!!!!)
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