Shell casing gives 'getting bombed' new meaning

ADN ^ | 15 Jan 10 | Unkniown

[GATOR NAVY]

Link: Kodiak Konfidential A supposedly harmless military explosive casing that was on display for years outside a now-defunct Kodiak bar turned out to have been live, KK reports. Fort Richardson's ordnance disposal team this week traveled to Kodiak to detonate the shell after the owner of the Kodiak Military History Museum determined it was still live. The explosion could be heard in the city. "I guess the upside of the whole story," writes the KK blogger, "is that all these years no drunk drove his truck into the bomb at high speed, OR tossed a seal bomb underneath it on the Fourth of July. That would have made one helluva divot in Mill Bay Road." The shell had spent the past few years in a junkyard in a relatively busy Kodiak neighborhood.

[GATOR NAVY]

I wonder if there was a fuze.

[brent13a]

"OR tossed a seal bomb underneath it on the Fourth of July"

Because THAT happens all the time.....the old local drunkards, in Alaska and the rest of the US, are just known for throwing "sealed bombs" around on the 4th of July.

Jeez. Seriously?

[Abathar]

That will ruin your whole day...

[GATOR NAVY]

Seal bomb, not sealed bomb. Basically a big firecracker. Commercial fishermen use them to scare off sea lions and seals.

[ScreamingFist]

They then proceeded, with much military efficiency and not much fanfare, to blow the shit out of the thing at the Salonie Creek Rifle Range around 5 p.m. Wednesday, closing the Chiniak Highway for an hour and making a big-ass boom, heard even in town.

LOL! Fusing is the last stage when loading weapons on aircraft, frankly running a car into it probably would not have detonated, although it depends on the state of the explosives used. When I was doing weapons loadouts, we used tritonal as the filler, it was no big deal to see them dropped, other than REALLY POing the load officer.

[brent13a]

Well, that does make sense....I thought that the writer might have been making an off-hand jab.

But seriously, do crusty fisherman go around tossing firecrackers all the time up there?

[DemforBush]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzsElu-GaGA&feature=related

I really need to get some seal bombs for my next 4th of July celebration.

[GATOR NAVY]

That’s what I was wondering about.

[El Gato]

Ping

Something new to play with?

[ASOC]

Only if they want to go to jail.