dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoGarden ornament turns out to be live bombwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1222arrow-down13
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minus-squaredantheclamman@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·4 months agostill probably best not to bang it with your trowel
minus-squareRuBisCO@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 months agoThat’s what got me. A bouncy 7 mile ride back to home. 2 world wars. Regular trowel cleaning. A paint job in 1982. And set in concrete, which EOD had to remove it from. What a ride, for the shell and the reader. Whew!
minus-squaredantheclamman@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 months agoand it finally went out with the bang it was designed for, without hurting anyone! going out with style
still probably best not to bang it with your trowel
That’s what got me. A bouncy 7 mile ride back to home. 2 world wars. Regular trowel cleaning. A paint job in 1982. And set in concrete, which EOD had to remove it from. What a ride, for the shell and the reader. Whew!
and it finally went out with the bang it was designed for, without hurting anyone! going out with style