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RCK

Posted 2008-05-03 12:27 PM (#15568)

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Subject: Beware of Ordinance

When I was a kid I found what I was told was the detonator for torpedoes. It was in an old lot half barried in the dirt. There were a bunch of them. I was also told that by unscrewing the head of the detonator and reversing a disc in there you would have deactivated it. Not true, it was still active. Well we took one home to my buddys home and showed it to his dad who was a chief in the fire department. He called the Army Ordinence Deptartment who came out and got it. Subsequently they sent out a crew to the lot and dug up a bunch of them that was dumped there after WWII. I feel sad for the guy's family in the following article who came on some Civil War Artillery Shells.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24441427>1=43001

Sewer Pipe Snipe

Posted 2008-05-03 2:23 PM (#15573 - in reply to #15568)

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Posts: 1796

Location: Albany, GA.

Subject: RE: Beware of Ordinance

When the Wainwright ran aground at the Charleston Grillian, one of the biggest fears was Parrot rifle shells from the guns on Sullivan's Island. I believe they found two of the huge shells.

BlackBeard

Posted 2008-05-03 11:25 PM (#15583 - in reply to #15568)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 566

Location: Inyokern, Ca.

Subject: RE: Beware of Ordinance

Minor nit and for future knowledge...

Ordinance = Law

Ordnance = Munitions

Sorry, after blowing up, burning, and shooting things for the last 25 years you tend to notice this one.

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