June 03, 2008
Montco: Don't Bring Home Bombs
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Apparently, a mortar round was recently brought to Narberth Police, and the Montco Bomb Squad had to retrieve one from an Upper Dublin home. For some reason, the unexploded munitions are buried on New Jersey beaches and for some even worse reason, people decide to bring them home. For fun!
"This munitions or mortar shell is equivalent to three sticks of dynamite, dropping them can set them off, riding them in a car can set them off or burying them," Montgomery County Sheriff John Durante told CBS 3. (His email was then hacked into.)
So, yes, here's a friendly warning: Don't play with any bombs. Well, unless you're playing a really good prank on a friend.
Warning Issued Concerning 'Beach Bombs' [CBS 3]
Posted by D-Mac on June 3, 2008 08:41 AM
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, Down The Shore
, Montgomery County
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Comments
KYW quotes the sheriff who says the army dumped them at sea and they wash up on shore.
Posted by: dmac at June 3, 2008 10:34 AM
Ah, okay. That wasn't mentioned in either of the two - two! - stories about this on KYW I heard driving to work.
I was hoping they were from the mythical Nazi submarine off the coast of Cape May, or something like that.
Posted by: Dark Horse John at June 3, 2008 10:39 AM
And while I appreciate the need to explain to people that playing with explosives is bad, I really have to wonder how much legitimate danger there is from bombs that:
a) were made 60-70 years ago.
b) have been submerged in salt water for all that time.
In Last of the Mohicans Daniel Day-Lewis was all pissed because his powder got wet from standing under a waterfall for, like, no seconds. But we really need to call in the bomb squad for stuff that's been at the bottom of the ocean for 70 years? Seriously?
Hey, if an EOD expert comes on here and tells me we do, okay we do, but from a layman's perspective it seems unlikely.
Posted by: Dark Horse John at June 3, 2008 10:43 AM
I'm sure that the people in New Jersey don't want it too known that there are bombs washing up on their beaches. It would certainly hurt tourism.
Posted by: A.J.C. at June 3, 2008 01:38 PM
It didn't hurt tourism that much when medical waste was washing up on the beaches, a couple RPGs as old as your grandparents can't be that much worse.
Posted by: Dark Horse John at June 3, 2008 01:59 PM
You know, I heard this story twice on the way to work this morning and no one is saying where the hell these things are coming from.
If "unexploded WWII munitions wash up on Jersey beaches" is the story, surely "OMGWTF where did these unexploded WWII munitions COME FROM?!" has to be a part of it, I should think. Not one of the stories I have heard/read has mentioned it. Weird.
Posted by: Dark Horse John at June 3, 2008 08:52 AM