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I mean we didn't have to deal with it. We called the police and the policeman just put it into his car... which was very stupid. Buuuut I'm not responsible for other people being stupid.
There is an old story among us european metal detectors.
The german ww2 personnel mines are generally considered stable because there's a tube with a plunger inside which rust into place, making them essentially inert since the detonator is physically disabled, even if you set it off. So gently moving them into a safe area is the best thing to do. Military or bomb squad usually comes out and blows them up in place. Out in the woods, its better than transporting them into a populated area
However a few years ago, one wise gentleman decided to bring them to the police. Loaded up a bunch in his car and the vibrations from driving eventually set one off, which set off the rest. Coroner essentially received him in a bucket.
I heard that same story last year as I was touring WW1 war cemeteries around Ypres and we came upon a few pieces of the "iron harvest" left out for disposal.
Yeah it's the same for the german stick grenades. Same with the Soviet grenades. But I wasn't sure which one it was and I didn't want to get blown up from moving it.
Wow that is some fucking CRAZY work on that copās part. No fucking way Iām even touching that, personally, but to just TOSS IT IN MY CAR AND DRIVE OFF is wholly on another level. I have a lot of respect for explosives and incendiary devices having sat in on many hours of official military and federal explosives training. Also, source: my father was an EOD tech in the Navy for 23 years and retired as the director of the EOD program, then went on to work for the federal government in multiple capacities as a trainer and director.
They may be stable enough for CAREFUL transport, but I have to assume the average beat cop, even in Europe, is not really trained in ācareful transport of potentially destabilized explosives/explosive devicesā.
You are absolutely not responsible for his stupidity, or the collateral damage he causes through it, you did your part by contacting the authorities. I still would advise against even digging it up for another angle, but Iām also not here to tell you what to do with your hand, up to and including š²
Edit: just wanted to add, no hate from me, all upvotes. This is still genuinely interesting content to me!!! We donāt have a whole lot of anything like this buried around the āstates where I live.
Ahhh no worries. I wouldn't have dug it out if I didn't find two casings from and 50mm anti tank gun just a half a meter next to it. I thought oooh another casing. Buuuuut oh well twas a grenade. It was buried standing, so it looked very similar to the casings we found.
Would I dig it up again? Fuck no.
I'm genuinely surprised that this cop is still alive since he mentioned that this wasn't his first time doing that...
Oh yeah well that does sound like a pretty easy mistake to make, given the relative age and condition of all these other things like casing and such. Sounds more like it was involuntarily dug up than recklessly, in this case!
It really does and thatās another layer to the hazards of coming across something like this thatās so heavily rusted or something damaged. It can look just like an innocuous every-day item like, letās say, a really old oil filter someone buried in a trash pit or a dump of waste that eventually got covered up with time.
That makes the policeman just putting it in his car even more stupid, jfc. It's not like finding ww2 ordinance is rare around here, and he definetly should have had the common sense to call the bomb squad.
Well he said oh yeah, its common to find things like that, he always does it that way. I wonder where he puts them... like I was genuinely baffled by him just say ahh its fine I'll put it into my car. Either he lacks any common sense or he's very stupid. Both kinda scary
My Australian pen pal gave me this nickname! (Tell him I said hi, btw)
But Iām in America, so finding WWII explosives here would be REALLY unusualā¦
This reminds me of cone top soda cans from the 50ās! This is generic looking style that I would have assumed was just trash(non-explody) and tossed it aside. Though living in the U.S. the actual odds are probably minuscule at digging one up.
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Finally a real post fitting for this sub and not a fucking sausage
You mean r/thissausage ?
I, for one, welcome our new sausage overlords.
r/thatswhatshesaid
I love how the current top post is an apology to the mods of this sub
That is the best redditing ive seen reddited in a long time. Well done, you sausages
This man reddites
That was fast. I wish this sausage great things.
That entire sub is about the one sausage š
Kinda.. blew up.
For a day, so was this sub. It was so annoying.
Reddit is such an interesting place
I wonder how long it will take before Big Sausage feels the need to issue a public statement.
Maybe there's a sausage inside :3
Forbidden bean tin
The āoopsā was discovering it, because now you have a potentially VERY unstable piece of UXO to deal with. Womp womp
I mean we didn't have to deal with it. We called the police and the policeman just put it into his car... which was very stupid. Buuuut I'm not responsible for other people being stupid.
There is an old story among us european metal detectors.
The german ww2 personnel mines are generally considered stable because there's a tube with a plunger inside which rust into place, making them essentially inert since the detonator is physically disabled, even if you set it off. So gently moving them into a safe area is the best thing to do. Military or bomb squad usually comes out and blows them up in place. Out in the woods, its better than transporting them into a populated area
However a few years ago, one wise gentleman decided to bring them to the police. Loaded up a bunch in his car and the vibrations from driving eventually set one off, which set off the rest. Coroner essentially received him in a bucket.
I heard that same story last year as I was touring WW1 war cemeteries around Ypres and we came upon a few pieces of the "iron harvest" left out for disposal.
Yeah it's the same for the german stick grenades. Same with the Soviet grenades. But I wasn't sure which one it was and I didn't want to get blown up from moving it.
The real oops was the policeman inb4 always was
Wow that is some fucking CRAZY work on that copās part. No fucking way Iām even touching that, personally, but to just TOSS IT IN MY CAR AND DRIVE OFF is wholly on another level. I have a lot of respect for explosives and incendiary devices having sat in on many hours of official military and federal explosives training. Also, source: my father was an EOD tech in the Navy for 23 years and retired as the director of the EOD program, then went on to work for the federal government in multiple capacities as a trainer and director.
They may be stable enough for CAREFUL transport, but I have to assume the average beat cop, even in Europe, is not really trained in ācareful transport of potentially destabilized explosives/explosive devicesā.
You are absolutely not responsible for his stupidity, or the collateral damage he causes through it, you did your part by contacting the authorities. I still would advise against even digging it up for another angle, but Iām also not here to tell you what to do with your hand, up to and including š²
Edit: just wanted to add, no hate from me, all upvotes. This is still genuinely interesting content to me!!! We donāt have a whole lot of anything like this buried around the āstates where I live.
Ahhh no worries. I wouldn't have dug it out if I didn't find two casings from and 50mm anti tank gun just a half a meter next to it. I thought oooh another casing. Buuuuut oh well twas a grenade. It was buried standing, so it looked very similar to the casings we found.
Would I dig it up again? Fuck no.
I'm genuinely surprised that this cop is still alive since he mentioned that this wasn't his first time doing that...
Oh yeah well that does sound like a pretty easy mistake to make, given the relative age and condition of all these other things like casing and such. Sounds more like it was involuntarily dug up than recklessly, in this case!
Yup, especially since the casings and the grenade had almost the same diameter. Maybe like a millimeter difference.
I honestly would love to watch the bomb squad detonate it, just know what soldiers from they time experienced out of a sense of morbid curiosity.
If I had a pyrotechnics license I would 100% detonate it myself...
Dang, I don't think I would have recognized it as a grenade either.
I mean I've been interested in ww2 stuff, so I kinda expected it to be a grenade. I guessed its a Soviet rg 42, and it was.
Kinda looks like an car engine oil filter, right?
It really does and thatās another layer to the hazards of coming across something like this thatās so heavily rusted or something damaged. It can look just like an innocuous every-day item like, letās say, a really old oil filter someone buried in a trash pit or a dump of waste that eventually got covered up with time.
Where are you? Curious often, lol.
Austria
That makes the policeman just putting it in his car even more stupid, jfc. It's not like finding ww2 ordinance is rare around here, and he definetly should have had the common sense to call the bomb squad.
Iām sadly not surprised having lived there for a decade. Miss Vienna.
Well he said oh yeah, its common to find things like that, he always does it that way. I wonder where he puts them... like I was genuinely baffled by him just say ahh its fine I'll put it into my car. Either he lacks any common sense or he's very stupid. Both kinda scary
Oh thank god
I'm confused- why thank god?
Because Iām not in Austria. Where there are random mines, apparently. Ā Sounds like a dangerous place!
Well you seem german judging from the name, doesn't seem much better imo.
But the explosives are usually just found at battlefields which I was on.
My Australian pen pal gave me this nickname! (Tell him I said hi, btw) But Iām in America, so finding WWII explosives here would be REALLY unusualā¦
Ohhhh, that makes sense then.
Honestly it looks like an old oil filter
This reminds me of cone top soda cans from the 50ās! This is generic looking style that I would have assumed was just trash(non-explody) and tossed it aside. Though living in the U.S. the actual odds are probably minuscule at digging one up.
Once you pop, you just canāt stop.
Why the nsfw?
NSFW is automatic on this subreddit.
Wasn't me, its the sub that made it nsfw
My guy is definitely Russian or German with the way he just casually pulls a grenade out of the ground even tho it could be activešš¤£
German S mine possibly. The fuses rust off the top