>In May 2003, Japanese freelance photographer Hiroki Gomi accidentally detonated a live bomb he was taking home as a war souvenir from Iraq. The incident occurred at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, Jordan, while Gomi was on his way back to Tokyo.
>>65636729Do they really
The Los Angeles sheriff's department bomb squad tried to saw a live hand grenade in half with a chop saw.
my grandpa was packing up after the war ended in the pacific, he thought it'd be cool to bring a pineapple grenade back. he unscrewed the fuze and dumped out the explosive, but it seemed stickier than he remembered. it wasn't the first time he had screwed around with grenades and the powder has always literally been a powder. he figured to be safe he would pull the pin to pop the fuze and he decided at the last minute he might as well toss it in a foxhole. he was pretty surprised when it still managed to explode.
>>65636729>>65636764>>65636846off topic, these all exploded so they're not UXO stories
>>65636764but why?
>>65636867All ordnance is unexploded until it explodes.
>>65636867uxb is better>>65636889i've seen reported that they were cutting it in half for a display model but i've also seen they pulled the pin as part of a training demonstration. i think they wanted a desk model.
>>65636904If ordnance explodes in a forest and no one is around to eat frag, is it really ordnance?
>>65636729Is he okay?
>>65636907nice
>Me, young EOD in the mid-2000s>Stateside>Call comes through a PD about a "bomb somebody found in a trailer park">I drive out with my team leader in gov SUV to a trailer park in the middle of the night>No cops to meet us >The spitting image of Joe Dirt comes out and asks if we're there about the bomb>Leads us in the darkening woods to the edge of the trailer park>Like 50% thinking we're about to get jumped >Small creek back there>Shine flashlights and it's a Hellfire missile>(Turned out later Army Aviation fired on a range upstream and this missile dudded out and washed downstream)>Confirm it's safe to move and pack it up in the SUV
>>65636729people discount how desirable bomblettes are. people who've never handled one, it's an easier mistake than you'd think.
>>65636932To be fair, "Bomblettes" is too cute considering what they are. I prefer, "Bomb Pollen".
>>65636936but they are cute, just deadly.
>>65636912Docs said he just needed to pull himself together.
>>65636729>>65636912He was fine actually, his bomb blew up a security inspector. He was sentenced to a year and a half in jordanian prison for killing the inspector, but was pardoned after a month by the king of jordan. The jap newspaper he worked for petitioned the king, and he agreed to pardon.
>>65636907Kek
Favorite will always be the thread with the anon in Sudan with a mortar round stuck in his roof
>>65636729Aren't Japs supposed to be the smartest Asians? What the hell made him think it was good idea to pick up some UXO, get it through security checks at the airport and take it home?
>>65636907Depends, is it connected to a doorbell strapped to a tree?
>>65636932>>65636949What type of bomblet is this talking about?Picrel?I can't think of any bomblets that are small enough to practically wear as jewellery. The soviet ball with stubby fins one would be great for tossing around though.
>>65637290Average IQ is like 105That's still incredibly normalAlso, your average Jap has absolutely no experience or knowledge of any kind of weaponry due to simple lack of exposure.
The newspaper company where he worked ranked below the two major national dailies, and it had long been known for employing aggressive tactics to secure scoops. On one occasion, the company even faced bankruptcy after it was revealed that one of its reporters had engaged in an illicit affair with a female official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to obtain classified information.
It's more common than you think!
>>65637345probably that or something like it for the first article, second one i think was mainly talking about BLU-26s. you're right jewelry does seem like a stretch, but that might just be loose reporting.
>>65636889Story was that they fucked up when X-raying it or something and thought it was inert.
Good threadbumpin
>be on vacation in northern France last year>visiting ww1 battlefields>walking across a field on Vimy Ridge collecting bits and pieces of war debris>see ass end of shell sticking out of the ground>"oh hey, another empty shrapnel shell" (had found multiple at that point>pull it out and OH FUUCK this one still has a fuze>looks like french 75mm shell>place it down very carefully, take a breather and continue scavenging for war bootyThat's the story of my first UXO. Not very exciting. I have since found several dozen more in the last two years. Planning on going back next year.
>>65638015Very cool story. Once in basic at Benning, we were doing a police line to clean up where we had trained and I found an old, rusted grenade half buried in the clay. I picked it up and walked it into the sergeants tent, they were pissed.
>>65637653The problem is 99% of the things the bomb squad handles are not bombs. When they finally found a grenade that was not a paperweight they didn't even realize.
>>65637352You just don't see that kind of dedication to the truth anymore God bless those nips!
>>65638015People out there usually leave them at the closest CWGC cemetary so they don't lost a day of farm work waiting for EOD.
>>65638647>People out there usually leave them at the closest CWGC cemetary so they don't lost a day of farm work waiting for EOD.How many of them get blown up when they try to load it onto a vehicle?
>>65637352>"female official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs">has affair with a compatriotshe really walked into that one
>>65636907its only ordnance if it hits its target
>>65638749kekShe had ONE job
>in syria>UXO galore>one of my first patrols>driving through a small SAA checkpoint hanging out the top of the armor>guard is snoozing on his chair with his headphones in>glance down in front of his little sandbag pile>two rusted up 152mm shells tied together with wires and shit>mfw>"hey can we move a bit forward sir"turns out farmers were hitting that shit all the time and just chucked it into the Gov to get rid of it, but still, jesus fucking christ
>>65638686Not a lot. Unless you go full Bugs Bunny trying to find duds retarded, they seem fairly insensitive. Also, some of those graveyards/monuments are literally within walking distance of a field.
>>65637597The forbidden baseball
>>65638841not that forbidden, i got two. less common than they use to be though. cheapest i can find them for now is $70.
>>65636932uh oh retard alertstop using features like DNT/GCP, most sites wont respect them and others use them to track your browser more accuratelyit's just extra browser fingerprint entropy
>>65636764This still gets me. Not only with the inital >How the fuckBut why were 3 people in that proximity in that scenario anyways. Two injured and one dead I could see, maybe even two dead. Makes me think of the vid of the three russians hammering away at a shell all crouched around each other. The only excuse to be standing there watching is for training and that makes it worse.Thank God that cat was okay.
>>65638841How about a football?
>>65636729Be me lifelong collector of antique arms buy sidelock percussion shotgun, nice gun nice condition French backaction locks, double triggers, no dings, ramrodcollect gun from auctioneer quick eck in top of barrel seems to be plugged with paper near the mussle ok time to go hoimeGet time to look at gun, try and pull out paper wat with fingers, nop, get needle nose pliers, out pops a complete paper cartridge with shot and black powder and wad, power looks like it was made yesterday, string is so perished it falls apart when you touch it.Very carefully remove same from other barrel.Ok I think, donePull ramrod to make sure there is nothing else in parrelsStops immediatly Both barrels are completely stuffer with paper shot and powder cartridges pull out another couple using a worm desk filled with paper cartrges.Actual pipe bomb in circulation for at least a 100 years
>>65639089I could throw one of those a quarter mile back in the day.
>>65639089i was always a fan of the exploding bowling ball
>>65639004What country are you in, Ukraine? They would be like $4k a piece under a DD transfer or something retarded.>>65639089Honestly surprising that this didn't work out, makes perfect sense.
>>65639508I'm talking about blue inert trainers like the ones pictured, live ones are olive drab with a yellow dot. I've always wondered why they made so many trainers, you just need to push the button to drop the bomb that releases them, maybe it was so they could hand them out to the troops and tell those gomers not to fucking play with 'em if they found any on the ground. If that was the case than they clearly didn't make enough.
>>65636729I've seen some "military collectible" displays at various places where junk is sold and plenty of those sellers for a couple years would bring a glass lidded display case to have knives, medals, rusty junk, and grenades in. So many of them have the right amount of aging on the pineapple grenades. Paint worn, rusted just right, dirty just right, which after a couple of times seeing them, made me wonder: if these are old deactivated grenades, what, other than certain (repro) stamps or picking it up and seeing a drilled base, if it were drilled, could assure me it was safe? Unscrewing a fuse on something that old could very well be dangerous if it's live. I don't see them anymore, but I have to wonder how many live WWII pineapple grenades I may have stood next to over the years. Or they could be grandpa's bringback where the fuse was unscrewed and the body tossed in a bonfire to burn the explosives away to be made safe. Or maybe they're old repros some kids back in the 50s/60s played army with. Or they're just grandpa's old bringback that's still live. Who knows.
>>65636764This story still makes no god damn sense to me. Even the guys who dig up fucking CIVIL WAR shells will drill them with a drill press that has a coolant line (read: garden hose clamped to the drill press) for the drillbit and a string that the drill can be operated with from a far distance. I don't care if you think it's inert, the fuse could very well be real (ie. even a training fuse) and that still has some power when contained. Easy to set off with heat, too, like when you don't use coolant. Why even have a human operator? Why not have a clamp table and a remote linkage that, in some odd case this is required, you can operate it remotely behind a wall or berm? Or why not even just use a CNC mill to do the same? This story just always confused the shit out of me; I'm retarded but I still have a self-preservation instinct to some degree.
>>65639614They hardly ever find real bombs. I hope they were the same LASD bomb squad jerks that close a freeway in Pasadena for 2 hours to use their bomb robot to remove a jacket from the shoulder of the road.
>>65639634The fact that the regulations even allowed something like that to be done manually just blows my mind. Sure, you're 99% sure it's fake. But you haven't seen the inside yet and the base is solid. You've x-rayed it but no one has seen the guts with their own eyes. Fuck, get a god damn vise and a specially machined socket that fits the fuse body which can remotely be turned. Once open, inspect it. Then and only god damn then should anyone cut into something that has a small chance of being live, let alone with two other people next to them, with a chopsaw. Like you said, they have fucking bomb robots to play with. They certainly have the budget to make it safe. Not everything will be able to be opened or interacted with remotely, but a US made grenade is certainly common enough given the massive amount of repros and grandpa's bringbacks.
>>65636923>The spitting image of Joe DirtGood thing you got rid of it before he started getting any ideas
>>65639101Bet i could throw it over those mountains
>>65637290Japs inside japan are retarded. The smarter ones work internationally. Is why inspectorman and the tourist are so dumb.
>>65638647Oh yeah, the french farmers do not give a single fuck. We've seen several sitting on the side of the road marked with warning tape, neon spray paint or just au naturel.pic related was lying next to the road and has nice fresh big nick in the fuze where you can see the brass shining through, likely where a plow or something hit itI also nearly stepped on a mills bomb next to a potato field.
>>65639606>if these are old deactivated grenades, what, other than certain (repro) stamps or picking it up and seeing a drilled base, if it were drilled, could assure me it was safe?that's kind of an ever present risk, the desirability scales with how correct they are, the absolute best inert ord is a real field used item that has had all the explosive manually removed but otherwise looks exactly the same. the vast majority are cast iron from richmond foundry & manufacturing with a spent training fuse assembly, the edges are more rounded than real grenades and if you look at enough you can tell. but there are still a few real ones and very occasionally real and live ones so the safe thing to do is call the bomb squad if you weren't sure it was inert, and were willing to loose it. i'd probably soak it in penetrating oil, and try to twist off the fuse with a long stick and a bunch of sandbags though.
>>65639989godamn convulvus arvensis, that stuff is a scourge
>>65636932>>65636949Jssus Christ
>>65636932>>65640185>>65636949>>65636936>To be fair, "Bomblettes" is too cute considering what they areThe irresistible pull of the lethal is a well known phenomenon.You feel it whenever you hold a pistol, or stand on a tall place and look out.There's a reason that chemistry and bio labs use a buddy system.
>>65640024>the safe thing to do is call the bomb squad if you weren't sure it was inert, and were willing to loose it. i'd probably soak it in penetrating oil, and try to twist off the fuse with a long stick and a bunch of sandbags though.I just solved said issue by not buying one lol. They were all sold by those guys you just know don't have the knowledge to ensure they didn't just buy something from an estate sale and assume it's okay because well, why would they sell it if...? Good point on the sharpness of the casting. I was also looking for RFX marks. And yeah that's probably what I'd do to be sure, unscrewing it from a distance with a good barrier. Been years at this point so from memory maybe a third had RFX marks that I remember. Some I didn't stick around long enough to inspect. They roll around with the other junk and sit in a hot car so if anything was stuck, transporting like that is a great way to make it no longer stuck. Ditto with the shells these guys have. I miss how common some of this shit was maybe 10 years ago though.
>>65639581>not to fucking play with 'em if they found any on the ground.they're still working on effective training for that.
>>65640296MILES compatible UXO is a pretty cool concept for the army to think of.
>>65640325more miles stuff
russians encounter UXO submunition with predictable resultswith soundhttps://files.catbox.moe/xco3pd.mp4
Are they not taught about the danger of explosive fragments when standing upright instead of taking cover?
>>65642727A better question would be "why don't they mark the area and leave it alone?"
>>65644665extreme boredom, impulsivity, temporal myopia
>>65642716
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqwi22HuyWgreminds me of walton county ga lawnmower man
>>65637383Desk pop, happens to the best of us
>>65636904That's non-exploded ordinance
>>65636729>>65636764>Dr John Pimlottwho was the Head of the War Studies Department at Sandhurst's Royal Military Academy, was killed after two hand grenades exploded at his Surrey home>John (49) died just 12 hours after returning from a trip to the 1942 battlefield of El Alamein where he lectured Gulf War Generals from the US Central Command>Dr Pimlott, of Camberley, who was recently seen by TV viewers on Channel Four's Decisive Battles, died soon after the grenades exploded in his bungalow. >Surrey police believe he had been examining the hand grenades which were among his collection of military memorabilia in his study, when they exploded
>>65637199Is that the same king of Jordan who was on Star Trek?
>>65646365he was enthroned in 99 so yes, he was the random teal dismissed by neelix.
>>65639199HmmmmReminds me of something...
>>65645717>Desk pop, happens to the best of usJust Pardon Parcel of Grenade Launcher ownership.>>65646365>Is that the same king of Jordan who was on Star Trek?>>65646471>he was enthroned in 99 so yes, he was the random teal dismissed by neelix.Now that's how you should use unlimited wealth and near-absolute power.
