Metal detectorist takes home live wartime bomb..

[snowmaker]

Saw this in my local paper tonight, I wonder if they're a member of the forum rl;

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/ ... -1-5329563

Steve

[bammcon93]

crikey that could've been a bad day

[RRPG]

I hope he does use this forum so that I can convey the following to him........

Why, when you had no idea what it was, did you take it home? To say you are doing a 'public service' is gobsmackingly nieve. Transporting live ordnance to your home put hundreds of people in danger. And now you want to find something bigger????!!!! I do hope that you, sir, still have the box and receipt for your detector. Take it back and get a refund as you are exactly the kind of person that gets all MDers a bad name. The next bit of ordnance may not be quite so kind..........and the paper will have a very difficult job trying to interview the red splog you leave behind upon your untimely exit from this world.

Jeez...........another candidate for a Darwin award......

[kopparberg]

what do some people think they are on . just insane .as said please take your detector back as we do not want metal detecting tarred with this .its just well what can i say and it will end in tears

[Philthy Phil]

I hope he does use this forum so that I can convey the following to him........

Why, when you had no idea what it was, did you take it home? To say you are doing a 'public service' is gobsmackingly nieve. Transporting live ordnance to your home put hundreds of people in danger. And now you want to find something bigger????!!!! I do hope that you, sir, still have the box and receipt for your detector. Take it back and get a refund as you are exactly the kind of person that gets all MDers a bad name. The next bit of ordnance may not be quite so kind..........and the paper will have a very difficult job trying to interview the red splog you leave behind upon your untimely exit from this world.

Jeez...........another candidate for a Darwin award......

Succinctly put mate, couldn't agree more!!

[slinky]

What a fool..... Enough said.....

[T2DEVON]

A bit like 'American Diggers' - Boom Baby!!!
Honestly, taking it home...

[f8met]

Do you think he had permission to be in the wood?

So I dug it up thinking it was a bit of aluminium and thought I’d just flog it.

THAT is what gives detectorists a bad name.

I’m doing a public service

Quite....

[Fusion]

There's something suspicious about that news article....nowhere does it mention anything about 'washing it in the kitchen sink', and these kind of people always do that....

[DAVYBFAST]

I wonder what you guys were like the first time you went out detecting.

so easy to judge new guys.

give the guy a break .

[slashter]

Theres a member or this forum who finds loads of unexploded incendiary bombs on his detecting fields near Bristol, I know everytime he finds one he telephones the bomb squad....knows each of the squad by name now apparently

The fields I detect on are full of exploded ones, they were dropped in clusters, thousands of them and were nasty little critters. Heres a pic of what they look like and are some of the one I have found this year...problem is they give such a great signal!!!!!

I'm reliably informed that these have all blown (actually you can see they have) leaving just the fuzes.

Apparently if you find one which is longer than these the accepted protocol is to run away faster than Usain Bolt on supplements!!
Tim

[ringpullfinder]

To put it politely a fool who seems to like the sound of his own voice.

[Anubis]

I think the day may have come where every detector needs to be supplied with an idiot guide in multiple languages and special picture versions for the especially inept.

[kernelcuster]

What a Muppet!

[Wansdyke44]

"WAYNE"!!!

What a wally... rl;